Posts by Dutchgirl

I treated the bird and eggs with Sevein5, moved them to a new nest--though she may not be sitting on them, now. Burned the entire bag of pine chips that she chose as her nest, and that was crawling with the critters all day. They were...

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Thank you! Reading about it, I'm confused because it says: Fowl mites live on the birds. (These are crawling around on the water container, among other places-in the day. When I put a new, clean water container a foot from the nest, it...

Oh, the coop does not have this! This bird is on the porch. Now, we see that wild birds are eating her food.

The mites are crawling all over the eggs. They do not look red when crawling on other things.

What kind of mites do we have? There is a hen on eggs on our back porch. when my sister gave her water at noon today, her hands were covered in an army of crawling tiny, red mites. We think there may be a wild bird nest or two about 15...

Quote:Originally Posted by lauraschickens It take the same amount of feed to raise 4 lbs of rabbit as it does 1 lbs of beef, so you get 4 times more meat from a rabbit for the same amount of feed and uses a lot less space. As for...

Do false pregnancies usually result in tumor-like enlargements on does' breasts? I know Hazel's had a false pregnancy before, but I've never noticed anything like this. Her cage is hanging next to a buck's cage (but with several inches...

Quote:Originally Posted by BunnyLover44 Ok then... can anyone help me answer this question, why do people eat/raise rabbits for food when they have other kinds of meat like pig or cow? Why cute harmless rabbits????? Why not...