Cheryl's Hen House

06/03/2025

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05/03/2025

For anyone wanting to learn more about breeding Silkies and Cochins, this guy is one of the best sources I've seen. Go soak up his page 🙃🐣

https://www.facebook.com/share/16KDF1g75S/

I have been breeding & showing poultry for over 40yrs. We breed to meet or exceed the SOP.

05/03/2025

This is from a few years back, but I have been asked many times about what I feed, so if anyone's interested I sum it up in a little over a min. 😄
Still feeding exactly the same way. 👍

Link to Kenny Troiano's channel:https://youtube.com/channel/UCpwHT8c-KEpt-o-NnpLP8HgA good video about preparing for breeding season:https://youtu.be/miQWU-6...

04/03/2025

blooming ❤️🌸

04/03/2025

04/03/2025

HUMMINGBIRD FANS REJOICE! Ruby-throated hummingbirds (the most common variety in the eastern U.S.) are on their way back after spending the winter in Central and South America. Their migration will bring them back to the southeast in March and they'll continue to to spread north through May. Forecast from the Mississippi State University Extension Service.

27/02/2025

So guys, I hate to post about this, but I have to. Maybe it will save some you future problems. As alot of you know, I've been more focused on nursery things and other things for the last year or so than raising a lot of chicks. I haven't even been on fb much at all. So in trying to get reaquainted in chicken land, and catching up on what's going on in that world, I'm seeing alot of things after visiting my old groups and checking with breeders on a few new varieties that I'm interested in. Scamming has always been a thing, as we know. Since probably a year or so after most people got home computers and things took off. But, it's gotten worse. Fake look-a-like pages have gotten to a ridiculous level. Its almost impossible to detect. They are still stealing breeders pictures and using them to scam. That's why I started labeling mine. Also, many long-time breeders have gotten out of breeding, and tons of new ones have popped up. There's also still as many issues, if not more, when shipping and ordering eggs and live birds. I'd hoped the usps would get better, but it seems worse. Constantly raising prices. Lost egg packages and even birds, delayed by a week, hatching eggs scrambled, or broken, and frozen by the time they show up. From shipping plants(live), I highly recommend using UPS. Breeders are not doing what they should, buyers too, and terrible communication. I'm kind of dealing with this currently. Misguided expectations, lying on people trying to destroy their names. Smh, I'm taking it ALL into consideration.
I'm not trying to discourage you from buying, selling, showing, or breeding. But, we all need to be doing our due diligence to check people and their pages and birds out as much as possible. See if anyone you know, knows the breeder. Try to find posts about fake pages and scammers. Don't forget, avian influenza is still very bad in some areas, be careful!

27/02/2025

It's been a minute since I wrote some little posts about chicken care, health ect, and I'm pretty sure that I've posted on this before. BUT, for anyone new, this is something I recommend that everyone should use in the coop. It seems to be way worse in winter, but amonia can build up and make things stink SO bad, and it makes it hard to breath for us, and the chickens. This product neutralizes that ammonia that builds up on the very bottom layer of your coop shavings. And anyone that lives in town or near others, knows that putrid coops are a problem! Neighbors may think you have a body in your backyard 😬😅
Sweet pdz definitely helps, along with the right kind of lime. I use first Saturday lime, and have for years. It's 100% safe for chickens, pets and people, unlike the caustic type. I had to clean the big coop today and omg, makes you remember why you hate the chore so much lol.

26/02/2025

Don't mean to photo bomb you all lately. 😅 Just trying to add more pics to the Silkie album here and there for reference. I'll be going in and adding a few notes here and there to individual photos.
Hope you're out enjoying this unseasonable weather!
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25/02/2025

For anyone that's here for nursery plants, i list a lot of what's available at my etsy shop, which can be found here...
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Shop Plants grown & produced here in my small Mo nursery! by CherylsHenHouse located in Perryville, Missouri.

25/02/2025

More for the silkie album 😊🐣

24/02/2025

Time to start seeds indoors, prune trees in Feb and spray dormant oil if you plan to, roses can be pruned soon if needed, prune off old blooms on your hydrangeas if you haven't, and hang in there for warmer days!

24/02/2025

https://youtu.be/xy4wiwIebvw?feature=shared

The Bible tells us about how Lot was vexed daily living in S***m. Jonah hated Nineveh. Moses, in anger, broke the tablets of stone, the Commandments of God, ...

23/02/2025

23/02/2025

Just adding a few pictures to the silkie album. I'll be collecting eggs to hatch soon, as long as they keep laying! 🐣 will only be available locally, no shipping currently. Spring is just a few weeks away! 🌷