Please check out this link of our backyard poultry flock!!! http://sarahbc.multiply.com/video
It takes you to some videos of our Duck Pad and Chicken Coop/Run...
my cousins dropped off an adult muscovy today, (they figured i had chickens and ducks so i would know what to do...RIGHT) anyway, i'm not sure if he's injured or sick, but i decided to keep him away from my two scovy girls in a separate pen. he can barely walk right, although he shuffles around...
If we got a few adult guinea fowl that were used to free ranging would we be able to train them to come home roost in a new coop on our property after allowing them to partially free range in the late afternoon???
i hear they're pretty flighty birds compared to chickens, and if you haven't...
at what age should we take the roos out???
we have 17 chicklets in a 175 sq. ft run/coop. three are definitely roos, one other very likely suspect, and MAYbe another one, not sure yet. once they all come of age, we're culling a few hens and any extra roos, trying to keep one roo and 2 hens of...
kind of a random question, but has anyone ever had a "special" pullet???
i've been watching my birds for the past week after moving them out into their run, and been noticing one hen thats not like the rest. at first i thought she was sick or maybe the lower one on the pecking order. but it...
we moved our peepers out a couple weeks ago at four weeks, and we've been walking them up the ramp to bed at dusk for the past week. all of our friends have been laughing at us like we're ridiculous. a few of our friends even doubted they'd ever do it on their own, suggesting that maybe there...
we built a 10x16 ft run, 6 ft high, and attached to it is a sleeping hutch, its total area for them to sleep in is 7x2.5 ft, 3 ft high. if i run two 7 ft perch's from end to end a foot and half high, how many birds is that enough room for comfortably??? right now we have 17 chickens, 4 are roos...
I know this is a long shot, but does anyone know of any MAUI, Hawaii muscovy duck owners looking to sell a few of their flocklings??? We're just looking for three...maybe a drake and two ducks. Let me know!