Wednesday 4/3 our ring neck chicks from Murray McMurray came and we put them in the brooder which is a 2’ x6’ x 2’ tall stock tank in our garage. It is lined with news paper now and is sitting on insulated pads not directly on the concrete we have chick booster in their water which is our well...
We have a bronze turkey chick and a Delaware chick apprx 1 week old. This morning we noticed some poop stuck on their butts, so we quarantined them from the rest of the flock after cleaning them up we noticed their butts were red , swollen , and inflamed. Does anyone know what could be wrong...
We have 9 chickens,5 all the same age and have been laying since Aug. 4 others of various ages have been laying the last few weeks or so. They have never all laid on the same day, we get 7-8 all the time . Until today all 9 laid an egg WOOHOO!!!
We have 2 polish that we bought from a feedstore the 3rd week of may.In the same coop we have a golden comet and a bard rock that are 7/8 weeks younger who have been laying steady for 2.5 weeks. For the last couple of weeks I have been measuring up the frying pans cause they have been dragging...
I answered an ad on CL about free New Zeland and got 6 of them yesterday. The folks that had them free ranged them so they had to catch them and put them in a hutch so I could pick them up. They were not sure of the sex of them so they stuck them in the hutch together. The dominant male (a large...
For those of you who remember the the birth of the puppies on BYC here is your update. For those of you who missed it this is your update also!!Gabby is an amazing mother, we are so impressed!! The puppies have been a lot of fun, today they are 4 weeks and 1 day old. The are walking and...
We took our mini doxy and her seven new puppies to thier first vet visit. Vet says things are fine but in a wek or so she wont have enough milk to feed seven puppies, so we may need to suppliment. We were wondering if puppy formula or goats milk would be better. your thoughts are welcome.
We have planned on building a new coop and run, for our layers it is going to be 5x8' or 40 SQ' . I have been gathering used materials since about may . The only materials that I have had to buy so far is the framing lumber and sheeting.
Put in the pier blocks last nite after work...
We have 5 Black stars a couple of them have poop stuck all around their vent feathers.. they dont seem ill or anything like that, still eating and drinking normal. also they dont seem to have the runs, they did 2 weeks ago when i fed them a red bell pepper. what could be causing this any help...
We have 5 black stars 7 months old. We consistently get 4 eggs per day, we thought 1 hen per day was not laying. Yesterday I was just watching them in the run and noticed one of them has a small comb and wattles that are light pink, part of her comb is still blackish that is what color they were...
This morning I got up at 5:00 AM to rake out the run and put fresh sand down on top. This is a job that hasnt been done since may cause I had to work away from home since memorial weekend, have only been able to come home twice a month. Anyways I raked all the corncobs and other debris out of...
We had 4 polish, 2 turned into roos so we traded them for 2 younger pullets, 1 -BR 1- GC they have been in solitary for 1 month now they are 8 weeks old . for the last 2 weeks they have been in a portable pen next to the pen with our 2 polish pullets in it . the polish are 15 & 16 weeks old. We...
We have 5 black stars that just started laying 3.5 weeks ago. so far they have laid 57 eggs,the eggs have been getting progresively bigger. this week we got three eggs that were noticibly bigger than any others that we have gotten so far . All three were different shaped so we dont think they...
We have 5 black stars , they started laying 2.5 weeks ago. To date they have laid 33 eggs all small like firstegg size. Just wondering when we can expect the eggs to get larger??. thank you .
We got a 5 week old BR pullet in trade along wiyh a GC pullet from a local feed store on sunday. when we brought her home she seemed to be the more timid of the 2. I went out of town to work soon after we got them home so didnt get to watch them at all. Talking with DW on the phone in the...
We have 5 black stars , we got our first egg on thursday 7/29 since then we have got a total of eight eggs. We have at least 3 ladies laying for sure, the problem is all the eggs are small like first egg small. is this normal , or are we missing something. we are feeding them layer feed &...
DW DDs & I went to Spokane today to make the rounds to the feed stores & ranch supply places, cause we were bored & hadnt been to town in awhile.Our last stop was at NWS&P, when we walked into the animal section they were crating up thier last rooster they had just sold. So I asked if they...