Recent content by BBrady

So which is it, normal or mites? :)

How do you I think I need to soak my roosters feet. They are scaley. How do you give the Epsom salt soak without them trying to drink it? Do you hold her and pet her, or just put it in her pen?

I don't know what to think about the legs. I think I should have a vet check it out, but I really want to let him out to play with the girls.

Rooster is a few months older than the girls, not yet a year, but maybe almost. He has fine behavior, some black areas on his comb that look like recent scabs, and super scaley feet. I have him in a separate pen inside the run, and the girls seem interested. He got out of the pen into the yard...

Is there anything I need to know about how to add an adult rooster to my flock? 10 hens are 15 weeks old and 10 hens are 18 weeks old. A friend is getting rid of hers, and I may take it.

Thanks for the advice. That's a great idea to use a length of the hardware cloth vertically installed for added height as needed. What would you use to support the extended height above the t-posts though? Maybe 1x2" wood? As well as avoiding frame and post details that look like attractive...

I have 20 chickens in an 8x16 foot coop, and they free range all day. This means they get poo all over my porches, dig at all my landscaping, and get into my cat food if I don't guard the cats while they eat in the morning. It's been fine until I start having guests over, and I'm tired of...

Thanks. This info helps.

I feel sorta dumb asking this, but i dont want to waste too much of my time and resources moving forward with building my covered run until i have a confident plan. If i build a covered run using frames built of 1/2" hardware cloth and 8' long 2"x4" pieces, (8' high and 16' or longer and 16'...

I have sand in my coop, which is a converted shed. I am also using the deep litter method. Well, i intended to use the deep litter method. I have had 20 chicks in the coop since end of May, and they free range during the day and go back in at night to roost and for protection. I recently noticed...

Wow. Ok, so double hutch it is, with a removable plastic tray insert for the guinea pig side floor, and a secure divider between. Would 1/2" woven hardware cloth be small enough mesh for the bottom in the rabbit side?

Also, about vacuum bags, didn't someone say to double bag for better long term storage? Even if they didn't, I am saying that it's a perfectly good idea. I have yet to make food that lasts long enough to test this idea, but I'm sure I'll need to try it eventually.

I currently have two guinea pigs that help the homestead by eating scraps and making great poo for the garden and compost. (They are my sons' pets, but noisy and stinky, and I'd feed them to the forest of they didn't contribute something valuable.) I saw rabbits for sale this morning on my way...

I have the same issue picking a name. I want Ranch or Farm in the name, hubby wants Acres in the name to imply a more general multipurpose property. Not to mention what the first part of the name would be... We chose our kids names from literature. How did you pick your kids names? What is a...