Posts by Kung Foo Chicken

She has a severe eye infection.  I found through a local poultry group. The lady said to get a strong terramycin ointment from the local vet and the Tylan was ok.  Anyway I'm going to keep with that group and ask Nifty to...

My duck has what appears to be swollen tissue in her eye socket. I haven't had ducks long (year) and never had a problem till now. When you see her the head lt looks misshapen on top because of this. I checked her closely and her eye...

Wandered downstairs for a ham sandwich.

There is some speculation that vinegar may acidify the gut of chickens and can be used as a mild preventative to help keep worm loads down by making it inhospitable. It won't do much for a birdthat has a heavy load of worms though.

Try your best to find the culprit. My neighbor never found his and all his chickens eat eggs now. They will teach this habit to the others. I retrained one hen by keeping her away from the others for a long time. She "forgot"...

Voted. Nice photos.

We use them. We also throw them into the chipper too. They seem to be much more absorbent when broken up some. Water oak leaves.

When I see something like this I so want to work on it too.

I have three ducks. They use just a large plastic dog house. Something like that will be fine in the winter for your location. When it is warm herethey stay out in their run area all the time anyway.I planted a rose of sharon bush in...

The usual compost pile. My dad puts a very small trail of the soiled bedding between his corn rows. During the late fall and winter the chickens are in the garden so we just toss in there and they spread it around for us. Makes the...