Recent content by ReadySetKate

Hi! We just finished building a new coop/aviary, and now we want to paint the whole thing, including the hardware cloth. The wire cloth is already attached to the wood posts, so the paint will all need to be the same. Will Rustoleum oil based enamel work for both the galvanized metal and the...

Thank you for your help! I've turned the bedding and checked and only found some egg shells, nothing else that I can see. I think it's a rodent: rat, squirrel, something like that, that's living outside and coming in the same door as the birds do during the day. It probably ran up the wall to...

I have a game camera set up, but it hasn't picked up anything. I'm thinking whatever it is is too small to trigger the camera? Or I may have it in the wrong place. The eggs are mostly being taken late morning through mid-day. I try to collect the eggs regularly, but half the flock lays early...

I need some predator ID help, please! Something has been stealing eggs out of my coop. Sometimes it eats the eggs on-site and leaves shells (with holes chewed? in each side and the contents eaten), but sometimes they just disappear. I think it's entering through the same door as the chickens...

Thanks! I was afraid of that, but I'm glad someone else confirmed it. This is my first flock, I hope those two get along!

Well, considering that Susan has all the looks of a rooster, and Clara sat on the windowsill and crowed at me all morning, I'm going to say they're both roos! The hatchery offered to trade me but I'm too attached, so I'm renaming them Clarence and Stew-san and hoping they don't fight!

Oops, double post.

Hi everyone, I need help! Do I have a pair of accidental roosters?! I got six chicks from a reliable hatchery, hatched April 9 (~14 weeks). Two of them are supposed to be Amaraucana hens, although I'm beginning to think that both of those traits are in question. My black and white "girl"...