Welcome! I see you are from the Greater Hamilton Area! We moved here, to Eastern Ontario, 3 years ago from Hamilton. We lived "on the mountain" for 32 years. We have a hobby farm that came with a barn and a horse barn. And this is our 3rd year with chickens. This is my experience: We started with Bl...

The young ones finally made it out of their coop. First I had to give them a bunch of snow for them to find out they can eat it. It only took them about 2 1/2 hrs.

Good morning! This is the first significant snowfall seen by all our this year's hatch. Mine included. After shoveling, encouraging, and enticing with food, they would not come out of the coop. I even opened the large back door for a short cut access to the barn. No go. Even my old BSLs would not al...

Good morning! Thought I'd chime in before the morning is gone. All are turkeys have been put in the freezer; the stewing hens are next, probably next week. Finally got out on a walk today, not a really long one but a walk just the same. I really need the exercise; modified Zumba a.k.a. "Zoomers" and...

I'm 95% positive that the two sonic sound plug-ins (or whatever they are called) that I have in my kitchen are working, keeping the mice away. Haven't seen any evidence of mice.
I agree, a quick death is better.

Good morning...pretty darn blustery out there today..hope it eases off...MJ hung out the sheets on the line and they are fluttering horizontally...hope the pegs hold.. ...i was making pen panels to expand the outside and the air hose on my compresaor gave out..it's less than a year old ...why do th...

Well then, she is a true loner and introvert! And maybe a late bloomer; so I would think she may calm down as she gets older.

She is such a cute little thing! She looks like she could be a lap hen!

Whew!!!!...I am so glad this thread is here...for a while there i was thinking theres something terribly wrong with the flock here...it turns out i have a whole big bunch of free loaders...i have 10 rocks, 4 blk sex links, 7 Rhode Island Reds, 2 leghorn mutts, 5 Blk Copper Marans and 5 Welsummers.....

Thanks everyone, for confirming that I wasn't just giving them excuses for not laying eggs. I should have mentioned the number of "0" egg days from the BSL's lately; there have been a few. Also, there are about four that have not seemed to recover fully from last winter's molt. That is why I decide...