Recent content by SuperC

Well… I love guineas, but we are not supposed to even have chickens so I’m sneaking them in and I bet my Karen of a neighbor will notice Guineas 🤦🏻‍♀️😆🤦🏻‍♀️

Sadly, we have some allergies that prevent lavender oil use (as well as a few others), and checking myself and the kid over multiple times a day for ticks isn’t really a long term plan (& all it takes is to miss one to have life long side effects) so I want to kill what’s there, not just have...

Hi y’all, I need to deal with a sudden tick invasion in my yard and want to use Spectracide Triazicide because I know it works. I found 3 ticks on my clothing yesterday just by walking in the short weed/grassy area in my yard where I’m building my coop & run. A few notes; my chicks are still...

Well, my chicks are only 8 weeks, but they have liked mirrors and some parrot toys that I hang from the brooder cover. The toys I have are sort of chandler style where it has large beads and silver bells and the other one has colored blocks of wood and a bell at the bottom. They love to peck and...

I’m glad it was just the temp/comfort issue. It’s great to be loved deeply and needed by my chicks, but it was exhausting to have to hear it non stop for a month!

I did post an update in here so you can go back and see that. But in the end, it was time that did it. It took weeks (3 or 4?) for Anne to calm down. Now she is as quiet and mellow as the rest of them and it is all happy quiet bird noises. But I thought I would lose my ever loving mind for...

Yes… that pesky waiting! 😆 Compared to my others, (s)he looks more roo- but compared to all the online photos of males at this age (7+ weeks) everything looks much smaller and less red (& still no waddles!), so I’m waffling every day between “roo” & “pullet”. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Thanks for the photos! Most of my girls have tiny combs (even the ones without much of a tail yet) but Marilla is stumping me. Tail was slow to come in, but is growing now. She’s the same age as other hens I have, but smaller. And the comb is more visable but not large and without waddles makes...

I’m stumped on the gender of the Orpington chick on the left; Marilla. I’ve had friends and family who have had chickens disagree on if she’s a Roo or hen and she is my fave, so the suspense is killing me. When I compare her comb to the other girls I have, her comb seems a bit bigger and gently...

UPDATE: since a lot of other posts about this never followed up or updated, I want to give a follow up. Around week 3 Anne started to calm down a bit. She was still loud, she still went for hours a day, but it started to lessen a bit. By week 4-5 she was still doing it, but not in a “I need...

Not that I can upload easily here. But it’s just an endless peeping.

lol…. Yeah…. No. She’s still loud. She’s LESS loud, less often, but boy howdy does she know how to make noise. She just wants me, wants me around and wants me to take her out of the brooder and love on her (though half the time she still chirps as I’m holding her). I have added a ton of...

I just don’t want to teach them to scream for stuff and not stop because they know it will work (like a flock of toddler tantrums 😆). But maybe it’s not worth the fight and should just feed them wet on demand 🤦🏻‍♀️😆

Well, I can’t move them out yet- I’m building the coop from scratch and it’s not ready (& it’s too cold out here and they don’t have much in the way of feathers yet. Plus, i LOVE having them in the house- (minus the screaming). This is my first batch of chicks ever and I’m so in love that I even...

So, I think I have created little Diva Monsters 😬. My apx 3 weeks old (give or take a few days) chicks scream at me for wet food and I’m torn between giving in and also making them learn that screaming for wet food (when they have endless supplies of dry food) won’t work. It’s the SAME STUFF...