Recent content by DonyaQuick

  1. DonyaQuick

    Considering a farm stand for eggs

    So, I have an egg problem. Some years back, I was going to have a mere 4-6 hens to embark on a self-sufficiency journey and now I have "about 20" chickens, which is to say 10 pullets, 16 hens, and 9 cockerels/roosters. At this point I keep chickens because I like to go outside first thing in the...
  2. DonyaQuick

    Open Contest BYC Poultry Caption Contest Photo Submission - Thread #13

  3. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    The egg machines are all coming back online more virgorously than I expected...my husband and I eat a lot of eggs, but I realize I'm likely to be getting a dozen eggs a day soon, what with 10 pullets in their prime laying time and a bunch of older hens that do anywhere from 1-4 eggs per week...
  4. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Got my first little blue egg yesterday! The Ameraucanas are almost 31 weeks old now; they were July babies so I figured they might wait until winter started to let up (which is is doing now finally!)
  5. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Mr Goober is actually quite happy with a lot of house time during this arctic air mess. He likes spending afternoons and evenings snoozing on my lap while I work. I have never actually exhausted his capacity for flopping on my lap; rather, he eventually exhausts my capacity to keep sitting in...
  6. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    It's not an age issue; all birds are old enough to be outside if the winter was like the last few years. It's a combination of the sheer duration of the negative temperatures each cycle and also partly my paranoia after realizing that I have a bunch of birds that clearly aren't nearly as cold...
  7. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    Had another night-day-night cycle of everybody in the house. The Ameraucanas actually seemed kind of into it this time. House time means they get rare varieties of snacks like crackers and the odd bit of cereal Most were able to go out again this morning; I'm only keeping in a few today that...
  8. DonyaQuick

    Growing my little flock

    I have 35 chickens in my house! And they have officially been in the house for over 24h straight now. Outside temps were ugly, windy, negative numbers Fahrenheit for over 18 hours, and then it only explored above zero for a bit today while it was still light out. Brief plunges into negative...
  9. DonyaQuick

    2026 Chick Thread!

    Last month I put in an order for at Cackle for a few exhibition buff orpington chicks mid-April. My very first chickens were 6 feed store BOs. Almost five years later, I only have 2 of them left. Nevermind the fact that I have 33 other chickens at the moment...I just have a need for a minimum...
  10. DonyaQuick

    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    I honestly thought my next post in this thread would be reporting two dead birds. Miraculously though, they have both bounced almost completely back to normal. Well, perhaps it's not that miraculous...they have both been house chickens since I discovered the problems and I have very aggressively...
  11. DonyaQuick

    Skipped molts - trying to figure out why

    Well, these two hens are not out of the woods yet. Metabolic issues continue and I may yet lose both of them to it if I can't get it in check, since it's really bad this time. The past couple weeks, one gained weight rapidly above her normal range and the other is headed towards being emaciated...
  12. DonyaQuick

    Main rooster letting his son mate all his hens

    I have one rooster like this; he runs his flock with his brother. He is absolutely in charge, there's no doubt about it with all the other interactions, although the two will happily sit together and preen each other. The alpha roo just has little/no reaction to seeing another rooster mating...
  13. DonyaQuick

    Crowing Rooster ..all night long

    Pitch black darkness shouldn't be necessary for birds to roost and be quiet. One of my coops sometimes gets very bright moonlight and there is no issue. I also have had house roosters for extended periods of time for various reasons and they always get a night light in their room so that they...
  14. DonyaQuick

    Those Almost-Good Photos...

    This one pullet of mine seems to attract weird background stuff that I don't notice until much later...this is the same girl as in my first photo in this thread, just quite a bit older now. I have thought for a week that there were surely two cochins doing some weird head-merging thing in the...
  15. DonyaQuick

    My rooster is eye pinning when i say his name

    It's not that easy to see with a lot of chickens unless they're right up in your face with the eye pointed right at you. Darker iris colors also make it very hard to spot eye pinning even with the chicken in your face.
See more
Back
Top Bottom