Posts by AKnewbie

9 Black Australorps in a 50 sqft insulated coop. Lowest temp we've had is about -20. Haven't added any supplemental heat yet.

Yup our birds are the same. Out at -10F but will not touch snow even at 35F

So my chickens have a litter box under their roosts that is filled with sand. The rest of the area has wood shavings in it. I clean up the litter box about every other day. However, I found them recently dust bathing in their litter box....

We've had a gyrfalcon attack our duck and chicken, albeit unsuccessfully. There is also a peregrine falcon who was hanging out in one of our trees but we have fish net all over the run so that may have deterred it some

With the buckets being kind of deep, how do your ducks actually get water from there at all?

Living in AK too. Chickens are in an insulated coop but have been going out at -10. Getting 7-9 eggs out of my 9. Not providing extra heat. Not sure how much extra feed they are consuming since it's our 1st yr with chickens.

But if you plug in the heater to a thermocube, would that work?

I think it's more likely that the antibiotics will kill the probiotics (from the ACV) in the water. Don't know much about chickens but when the humans in our house are on antibiotics, we make sure that we are on probiotics as well. If...

So apparently cold isn't a problem so much for our birds. They were hanging outside at -10. Snow however, is a different story. It's snowing right now and 26F and they will not go into their run. Do I kick them out so I can clean their...

Wow that video sent shivers down my spine. I've strongly suspected that it was a gyrfalcon that attacked our ducks and chickens but at that time I was too panicky to really observe the bird that I was chasing away. And since its not very...