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It looks like all the girls are taken to nice homes. Thanks everyone for your help! Dave

Great! I sent you a PM. Dave

She is a sweet girl and yes you can have her. I would prefer you pick her up some evening after 8:30 so they will all be nice and calm. Will that work for you?

Downsizing in Walnut Creek...I am afraid my last 3 girls need a new home or homes. They are 18 months old and have been good layers (see below) with sweet personalities. Daisey is a Barred Rock, Polly is an Americana laying lovely jade green eggs, and Geneva is big fluffy Buff Orpington. Geneva...

Thanks for the tips. I wish I could give her some eggs to hatch but this is just not a good time for that. I am (gently) booting her off the nest despite her fluffing and curses, but I am getting worried about her eating and drinking. Despite her grumpiness, she is a very sweet girl. I try to...

One of my Buff Orps has gone seriously broody on me. She only wants to sit on a nest and growl at me! This has been going on for about a week now. Is there anything I can do to discourage her or do I just wait for her to get frustrated and settle down?

Welcome! We always need more hobby farmers and being a gentleman just adds to it! ;-) Dave

Thanks, Wishing, when you say probiotics do you mean something like yoghurt? Mine don't really seem very rundown except maybe by the season and the weather (they are all molting) but their egg production has really dropped off. No eggs yesterday and only 2 today, and all the eggs are pretty poopy.

Actually 1-2 of my 5 hens have it too. I have been wondering if it is the feed. I am giving them that fancy Omega-3 Layena and I wonder if that could be causing it.

Nice pics, Jeremy! Beautiful birds, too!

I went last year before my coop was done and before I got the peepers and it was pretty amazing. Biggest chickens I EVER SAW!! Saw one little girl maybe 6 years old walking around with a big fluffy hen that looked about as big as she was! ...and watch out for the turkeys! [gasp]

You might think about checking to see how much they charge to deliver. One cubic yard (27 cubic feet) will weigh 2500 pounds or so. Too much to haul even in a full size pickup like a Ford F-150. To put it another way, 1 yard will require about 50 bags of playground sand which will cost you at...

I know that much of the rest of North America considers us a bunch of weather-wussies, but seriously now...do we need to do anything for our flock with the temps dropping into the 20s??

Thanks everyone. I use sand inside the coop, so it makes perfect sense to put it down in the run. It looks like it is going to take a yard or two...I will have my work cut out for me! HaHa!

I have a question about "winterizing" my chicken run. I know that compared to much of the rest of the country our winters are really pretty mild, but they are usually wet. My girls get to wander around in the yard when I am around, but most of the time they are inside their run. Naturally they...

I would have expected at least some feathers too, Kim, but in this case it was just a naughty girl! I leave early for work, just at daylight these days, and as I was walking toward the gate this morning I heard a "cluck-cluck" from an unexpected direction. There she was scratching around in the...

What a bummer! :-( Our Americana, Polly, just disappeared this afternoon. No stray feathers or bits of this-n-that to be found...just gone. They were in an uncovered pen and everyone was there at 4 PM, but she was gone when it was time to close up the coop. They do have a covered run that is a...

Interesting thing happened the other day. A stray cat was wandering through the yard...cruising across the front of the chicken yard about 6 feet out from the wire. I was keeping a close eye on him/her, as you might imagine! Most of the "girls" were in a clump near the back of their pen...except...

There are some threads about hatching Trader Joe's fertile eggs, which might be a lot of fun. Apparently they are white Leghorn types and someone described them as "egg laying machines!"

I admit I am really surprised they can reach market size so quickly! At 8-weeks my girls were pretty scrawney. In college we used to complain about the "parakeets" they served us in the lunchroom, and that's about what they would have been!