Reviews by Whittni

It's really gross when you get algae inside the regular waterers so I looked into purchasing poultry nipples.



I really like the poultry nipples I got from Green Garden Chicken. They were easy to install and generally make everything cleaner in the chicken coop and the chicken yard. My hens often scratched dirt into their old waterer and made dirty where I was cleaning it out all the time. Like I said above, I started having problems with algae forming in my main water which was plastic. The plastic is translucent where the sun shines through it and the bacteria grow, even if I put it in the shade. You shouldn't let your chickens drink gross water, when you wouldn't drink from the same thing, you and the chickens could get sick. You just attach the poultry nipples to PVC pipe, or any container and the sunlight is blocked out keeping the water clean.

The worst mess in your coop or run would be your waterer loosing all that water you just put in it, which gets everywhere! I can't even tell you how pairs of shows that just been drenched from faulty waterers I've owned. The typical waterers just waste a bunch of water when they break, just another reason to join the poultry nipple movement.

You can use the poultry nipples at poultry shows too, just attach a poultry nipple to a water bottle (half or full sized work great) and hang it up in the cage. They help keep your birds looking their best by only drinking what they need instead of dipping their beards, muffs and/or waddles into a cup and they won't step in their waterers, which is a total nightmare if you've shown a feather-footed chicken. I like the way the Green Garden Chicken nipples have little seals on the inside to keep the water from leaking out and how I can unscrew them to clean them when I do coop maintenance.

I'd also like to mention that I can use these waters for my pigeons, duck, quail and even turkeys...someday!

Overall I would recommend the Green Garden Chicken Poultry Nipples to anyone who wants to keep messes out of their current chicken waterers, be cost-effective, good customer service and doesn't want to refill their waterers all the time.

If you're interested in these poultry nipples, their website is: http://www.greengardenchicken.com/
Mouse over the "Chicken Supplies" tab and click on "Poultry Waterers" where you pick one of the sizes. Have a great day & good luck!

The pictures are in reverse chronological order. This is such a gorgeous chicken breed. She was flighty when I bought her but with regular handing and bread, she's fine with being held. She's not mean to other chickens and she's not a crazy noise maker when she lays eggs like some other chickens. She was awarded a blue ribbon at a fair I went to.

I got my first wyandotte hen a while ago and I have really enjoyed her so far. She's so adventurous and interesting to watch, especially with her best friend Matilda the White Rock hen. Love this breed so far, my hen's a year old. So if you want a good layer, friendly chicken and active chicken get yourself a wyandotte hen/chick or maybe even a rooster. This is her (below):

Here's Matilda her best friend (below):

I had these waterers when I started keeping a new flock in late 2010.



I have always had a good experience with these waterers and so have chickens. The link to waterers sold by Green Garden Chicken is this: http://www.greengardenchicken.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=20_64&product_id=139

As I've been going through Green Garden Chicken's supplies for chickens I came across a unique nesting box that not only could be used for laying hens but for rabbits too. They only use natural wood that's safe for rabbits to chew on and as a rabbit and chicken keeper/exhibitor myself, I really like this box for both species. It looks like a good hiding spot for a rabbit and a unique and down to earth design for a nesting box. When I got my first pullets that began laying they didn't recognize the boxes(standard plastic set) that I did have, and turned to the more natural laying area in my garden's foliage to start laying eggs in, places very similar to the design of this nesting box. While my pullets did eventually figure out where to lay I think this nesting box would have encouraged them to lay in the coop sooner. Here's a picture of what they look like:

And here's the link to this nesting box: LINK

This is a picture of what these Nest Boxes look like from GreenGardenChicken.com:


I would love to have these nesting boxes in my coop because they have great eye appeal, have a slant that discourages chickens to sleep on them and their overall design. This laying box can hold a broody mother hen's chicks and her eggs in and not fall out. Same goes for other hens as well. I love the fact that its raised off the ground and that I could make my bedding thicker and have the baby chicks from a broody not have problems getting in the nest at night. If you were interested in getting this kind of nesting box here's the link to it: http://www.greengardenchicken.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=20_64&product_id=65

Have a good one!

I really like the design of this chicken feeder. The pointed top doesn't let chickens roost on it and poop in the feed, unlike most feeders available for purchase. It holds a good amount of feed and is really easy to wash because it is made of plastic. These feeders cost $31 ea. I linked the picture to their website www.greengardenchicken.com that sells them:

Thumbs up on these feeders.

This is Ava:

Ava is gorgeous. See? Love her even if I can't hold her. She still enjoys treats though.

Starburst is my new hen's name, she's a white laced red Cornish bantam and I'm absolutely thrilled to own her, as Cornish are one of my all time favorite breeds of chicken. But for further information on cornish just read this page, I typed all of it. And how I got her is below:


I got Starburst with three other hens for free, the family wasn't home enough to care for their flock so I took a few off their hands. But she was kind of a gross hen that needed her nails trimmed and a bath to look good so I did that now she is really happy. She's getting a POW article too, so watch out for that in the coming weeks

This is my copy:

This is just an ordinary book in my opinion. I have lots of chicken books and this one kind of disappointed in the since of new information and it has a lot of word for word information found on BYC and all basic chicken books. While they took the time to picture their birds growing up I still didn't get a thrill out of reading it, like I do with my other books. I did like all the pictures and the subtitles though. I give it a half rating of 3 due to my lack of entertainment from it. It has little cartoon chickens and a list that's found in most if not all chicken books about different chicken breeds and their abilities. This is my copy: and a preview for you.

I love my OEGB, they are the smallest chickens I've ever owned. Their shear size is intriguing. These are fantastic chickens that I would recommend to just about anyone. They are a little flighty but can be tamed fairly easily. I love the crowing from Otis my BBRed rooster (funny) - because he's so small its ridiculous and he really tries and not much of a sound comes out, it's like ERR *BLANK* Ehh

*Oh* if I'd only thought to take pictures when I started keeping chickens, I would have been much more happy. Years ago when I got my first chicks I had started with four, with one being an australorp. I only hold a few memories though being so long.

What I do remember about Dorito (the australorp) was that she was very fat and did not lay well at all, we got maybe 2 eggs a week from her...all of the other hens layed white eggs you knew how poor of a layer she was. She hated being a small flock too, even when in the coop you could just watch the body language. She wasn't even happy when we brought in a polish pair or when I caught a roaming rooster.

Though - I had even attempted to make her brood chicks (I was ignorant of animals until I relized what it was like not have something you love - then my passion was founded two years later...chickens try #2) by locking her in with Charley the Buff Jersey Giant for a week.

When the hens would have turned three - 2 years after I sold them - I tried to find the family I had sold them to, hoping I could track them down and treat them the way they needed or should have been treated. I had no luck but the first thing that came to mind was how I didn't "really care" after they weren't chicks and how a short amount of time can change a mind so easily and that was a part of my life and growing up.


Funny how we comprehend animals when our lives really start, when we actually understand.
I'll always miss my first flock - including Dorito the fat, bad layer australorp hen

These are perhaps my favorite breed of chicken, but I love all of mine so much, this is a huge battle between cornish and phoenix as favorites...well let me tell you about this wonderful breed of chicken:

I own three silver phoenix bantams, 1 rooster named: Satchel & 2 hens named: Peanut and Tula
They fly at faces and hands so they can be close to you, they love to cuddle and be warmed up in your coat, even Satchel my rooster. Satchel has a soft crow, and its not high pitched and he doesn't crow all that often, maybe 5 or 6 times a day, if that. Tula and Peanut are so gentle. The entire trio will walk or fly into my family's house at all costs, and of coarse we reward this 'behavior' with bread and laughter. They are guard-dog/chickens to people at the door when out of their pen...flying at any new hand, shoulder or face expecting food! Peanut was broody for three days, then I tried to move her and she got stubborn. They have a roofed in run for the rooster's conditioning. I haven't showed these birds yet but they will do amazing. A 4 by 4 coop with a 4 by 8 run suits a trio well with a little monitored free ranging.





They are also crazy about peanuts! Comment w/Questions.

Not the greatest picture but this is Honey above...she's so nice!

I've owned Barred Rocks throughout my chicken keeping career. They as a whole, are generally tame, loving and love treats, in fact they are one of the easiest to breeds in my opinion to become fat, in a pet sort of way.

PICTURES!




The ladies I've had or currently own are named: Kiwi, Lieka, Dutchess, Flower, Omelet & Ramsese (forever loving of all of them)...each and every one so loving.

These lovely bantams are great for homestead life. I personally own eight of them, four hens, four roosters. If you're looking for a fair layer, a good mothering breed and like personality these chickens are for you.

These are some pictures and descriptions of my chooks (chickens):

The young Apollo:

He's a persistent one, alright! He'll go up to my buff orpington Honey and say, "I'm your rooster ... I'm gonna do what rooster's do to you!" and she'll peck him and basically says feircly, "Try it and I'll peck your waddles so hard you'll fly back to your roost from last Tuesday!"


The Young Tiny, Honey (orpington) and Houdini:

Well, Tiny is a head-flyer-atter! He thinks, "Oh my goblen! PEOPLE! FOOD!" That's deep I'm going into w/that one.

They are also known as Sablepots.

I've only owned 1 serama hen and I still have her. She's such a joy to be around. She's housed with three other bantams: 1 Silver Sebright Rooster,1 Golden Sebright Hen and a Black Tailed White Japanese. She is third in the pecking order, but sometimes second. When I got Bottle-Cap she's was wild, she came from someone is Northern Utah and I traded my turkeys for her + $30 and the original price of the turks was $35, so this banty just costed me $5. Here's her picture, and she's tame now.