Recent content by chezpoulet

It looks like a hemorrhoid, if indeed chickens can have one!. I have had no luck keeping it in- I would push it into the vent, then Bella would try to poop and squeeze the blob back out again. It is just dangling outside her vent, getting coated with the white urates, some of which is dribbling...

Thanks. It doesn't look necrotic, is squishy to touch, and now has a coating of what looks like whitish urate covering the mass, impossible to remove even after soaking. Bella is producing brown poop without the typical whitish urate cap that you find in regular poop. Pushed the mass back in...

Can someone please help identify this? One of my hens had a really poopy butt which I washed and found this dangling from the vent area- is this a prolapsed vent, or dried up part of an egg that she did not manage to lay completely? It is gelatinous looking, and I did not dare scrape too hard in...

You might want to remove that roost ladder and place one/or two (if spacing permits) lengths of 2x2 or 2x4 across the coop. Space the roost so that you get clearance from the walls or you will get poop splatter (mine is about 12 inches from the walls). I place my roost about 2-3 feet up as my...

I based my design on the photo of the Polish on the USDA poultry calendar from last year or the year before- eyeballed it and sketched the contours- and added the lettering using graph paper to get the proportion right. If you have a picture of your Polish you should be able to sketch a pattern...

Mine was an 8x8 square - but I don't anchor it and the hens are in there only when we are home- it is not predator-proof, just a way to keep the hens from wandering off too far.....

I tried with no success last week- and ended up paying $10 for a chicken coop calendar on Amazon. Just tried again and the site just hung ...not sure if my order went through. Sigh.

One of my friends named her chickens Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Don't think she ever got around to acquiring Supper, Midnight Snack or Elevenses! My own chickens have more pedestrian names- see my sig line.

Best of luck! It took a while for my lone Ameraucana to integrate with my existing flock of 4. She is now part of the flock, 9 months along, but sometimes still chooses to have her "alone time" away from the main flock when they are let out to free range. She is still reminded every now and then...

Adding a picture. Technology glitch earlier so could not post pic.

I made an 8x8 tractor/pen out of PVC pipes that is bottomless and covered on four sides and the top with plastic fencing. My yard is large but unfenced in a subdivision, and I did not want the chickens wandering out of bounds. It is not predator proof, and the chickens are in there only when we...

OK this is the last stained glass panel. No more, or I shall have to build a bigger coop! Any guesses as to the breed?

I too would be interested to hear from folks who have ordered from them, re quality of their stock etc. It would really nice to be able to either pick up or have the chicks shipped from closeby!