Posts by Momoftwo04

I had 10 eggs in my incubator and they were due to hatch on Friday 2/22/13. Only 1 hatched and it didn't hatch until 2/24/13. How much longer should I wait for the other eggs to hatch? If they don't hatch this poor little chick will be...

I use a light fixture that is attached to the floor of my coop, 8 red bricks and a clay saucer. lay 4 of the bricks on their sides to form a square around the light fixture, stack the other 4 bricks on top of the first 4, put a 60 watt...

My girls are helping us build our sap house!

           

     

They take their dust baths in the dirt in the outside pen. It just gets really dusty and I am concerned it is getting into their lungs & will cause respiratory infections. There used to be grass in the pen but they have dug up the...

Can I use calcium chloride like they do on a dirt road?

I am concerned that my chicken run is too dusty and is making my chickens sneeze & wheeze. What can I do to reduce the dust so my girls will be healthy again?

Oh gosh I forgot to put that I am in Epsom, NH. So sorry about that!

I have 2 beautiful 2 month old Araucana/Americana cockerels that need new homes. They are quite beautiful and have just started to cock-a-doodle-do! I hatched them myself and enede up with 3 (possibly 4) boys. My boys have named them...