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Winter Care for Chickens
taken from wikimedia, author addshore I’ve had several people ask about housing and caring for hens in winter, and it’s best to start thinking about it now while the weather still allows for easy...
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Snow Chickens
The ladies have been completely terrified of the snow, until recently. I had to show them that it wasn’t dangerous by opening their door and calling them out with some scratch treat, but the other...
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The telltale signs of a great dust bath.
I let the ladies out of the run to wander in the snow, when one of them stopped right by the doorway and shook like a dog. The dark spot is all the dirt she was carrying around with her after her...
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It’s cold out there!
One of the best things you can invest in when getting backyard chickens: a remote temperature reader. This way, you can obsess over the slightest temperature variations and neurotically check on your...
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Feather Pickin’ Chicken
A few days ago I noticed that BB and Dumptruck were looking… raggedy. Specifically, their “bustles” (the area right above their tail feathers) looked like the feathers were thinning. Yesterday I...
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Feather Pickin’ Chicken, Pt2
The Jerk is at it again. She’s even pecking me, hard, on the leg while I’m out in the run cleaning. I’ve put cat toys out there; cabbages; low-energy treats like greens, squash, etc; a tennis ball;...
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