Recent content by JimnRuth

My honey bunny has just had a liver transplant. She is doing well. But the issue is the doctors have recommended that we get rid of our chickens. This is due to any disease from animal feces as she will be on immune suppression for the rest of her life. I'm bummed as I so enjoy having them...

Mine also love mealworms, but blueberries come second, especially since I have a dozen bushes right next to the coop. They love it when I turn them loose during berry season. I say the top ones are for the birds, the bottom ones for the chickens and rabbits, the rest are for me.

Egg laying is picking up. The new easter eggers and orpingtons are starting to lay as are the older girls. Cool beans! That rascal was indeed causing all the mayhem.

Well the rooster is in the oven as I write this. Monday morning I got everything set up and butchered him. It went a lot easier than I had anticipated. My neighbor has some meat chickens and will be harvesting them in a few weeks, so it was a good experience for both of us. I put a feed bag in...

Got some Buff Orpingtons and Easter eggers this spring to double my flock. One turned out to be a rooster. Thought he'd be cool to have, maybe raise some chicks. But he's turning into a real nuisance. Harassing the hens, bullying and jumping them at every opportunity. Egg production is down to...

Our new neighbors are awesome, they started raising chickens as well as goats. We let our chickens run in the evening, that way they don't get too carried away with themselves and wonder too far off. The neighbors tend to let theirs out earlier, which is fine. They will run for our chicken yard...

Diatomaceous Earth will help control them as well. You can dust your chickens with it as well.

I made an enclosed run attached to the coop and they'd rather sleep out there than in the coop. I put plastic on 3 walls to keep the wind off them during the winter. It is secure so no worries. One real cold night they went into the coop a couple of days ago. I have a fenced in yard for them to...

Good to know. I hit them with DE and haven't seen them since.

Our 8 Isa Brown chicks are growing so fast. Full of feathers and rowdy as can be. We moved them from the box to the coop, closing it off to the big chicks. Had to build an extra nesting box for them as they are blocked from the coop. Been pretty warm so we leave the big coop door open with a...

Georgia is great for chickens. No rules!

Just a lil bit north of you in Georgia. Mine have been doing fine down to 32. I covered 3 sides of the run with plastic and tarps. They have a coop they can go into at night but prefer the roosts in the run. I tried putting them in the coop at my wife's insistence, but it was like herding...

They destroyed the pine straw in my front flower beds. Took some left of a bale and spread it in their run along with some more from the pines next to the coop.

Oh my chickens love watermelon! Now I know what to do with the leftover jackolanterns.

Garlic and herbs makes a fine tasty chicken meal. I have given them minced garlic, they devoured it with their food.