Carpintária

10/03/2025

Last night something moved the eggs from behind my old coop, to the side. Any idea what could have done that? My dog chased it off but I didn’t get to see what it was. The eggs are not damaged 🤔

10/02/2025

So today I saw a chicken on the side of a road near a park. I went to the vet office I saw nearby and told them. They said someone dumped 3 chickens this past Wednesday. Animal control got one, the other was nowhere to be seen. I tried calling animal control and they were closed. So...I went home and got a cage and after, what seemed like 45 minutes, caught her after a last ditch effort of offering my trader joes salad 😆 Anyways, that being said, hoping its a girl, cause I cant have roosters? Barred rock? Does he/she look old? She is scared, and not friendly right now. I have her separated in a small coop. Not sure what to do. I have 6 girls already. How do I mesh them?

10/02/2025

Looking for advice! Getting ready to design and build my own coop. Looking for what people can not live with out and any advice. I only plan to do this once. Thinking shed style.
Pic of the freeloaders who haven’t laid yet so I don’t get loss And yes we have a small temp coop for shelter for now.

10/02/2025

My chicken is egg bound. They just started laying two weeks ago. She was fine yesterda, and today she was laying on the ground not moving. Let me pick her up and take her inside. Ate a few bites of bread in the Greek yogurt bowl I made for her. Then I gave her an Epsom salt soak. I blow dried her gently afterwards. Is there any hope for her, she’s one of my favorites😞
What else can I do? How often can I soak her?
How do I get tums in her?

10/01/2025

So I rescued this rooster cause someone dumped him traumatized and scared. He has no desire to be a chicken. It took days to get him out of his shell and lots of TLC to start acting more normal.
I let him roam with my flock during the day but they beat him up and make him hang alone. I came home the other day and he was with the goats instead of the chickens.
He knows when I go inside I go up these stairs, so now when I’ve been coming home from work he’s just waiting at the top of the stairs cause he thinks I’m inside.
When I’m around he will just hide behind me from the world.
What the hell do I do to encourage him to be a chicken
A lot of people say to stick them in coop at night but when my coop door opens my chickens wake up and they just look ready to fight so… I have not left him in there cause I don’t have a camera😂

09/30/2025

I FINALLY figured out how to make a salad bar for my chickens that actually works and is sustainable. Basically 7 garden cold frames (each day of the week) with angled roofs (so they don't get all poopy). I soak the fodder the night before, place it under a frame the next morning and let it sprout for 7 days...and then uncover it for THAT day of the week.

09/30/2025

Did I do this wrong or something?

09/29/2025

09/29/2025

I was told these gals were Easter Eggers when I bought them 6 months ago at Tractor Supply. They are laying already with brown eggs. Will they start getting green soon or are they not Easter Eggers.

09/29/2025

I turned this thrifted drawer into a cozy little nesting box with some paint, hay. The hens seem to approve free eggs and farmhouse vibes all in one!

09/27/2025

Man I saw this thing in my yard, cut it open, and thought “Oh no! Did one of my girls lay a lash egg?!” But then I searched the image in ChatGPT, and it reassured me that this is in fact a fungus, and not anything that came from my birds. Whew.

09/27/2025

When you have a hen that you bought as a hen that you always wondered if she was a he buy you know you bought she’s and then one day you start hearing crowing coming from your coop, but it’s not too loud so you think you have a hen that’s trying to make crowing noises… and then the day comes that you look at your hen and think hmmm Im never getting a butt nugget from this one!

(Tell me I’m wrong)

And I thought “she” was a blue laced Wyandotte but now Im questioning my life.