Anyone familiar with this? In have two dward Netherlands - Abbot and Costello. Costello turned up Sunday with head tilt. I hunted down a rabbit vet and he's now on an antibiotic for it. I've been reading about doing pt to get their neck to unkink...anyone do that? thanks!
I have an opportunity to get 5 turkey poults to raise. I get to keep 4 of them if I donate 1 to the local foodbank. How much inside living space do turkeys need? I need to figure out if I have enough housing available. Thanks!
I got the set of 2 pens and tried them out last night. I was playing with them and I did a tiny collage and put some swirlies thingies on (in silver...mind you)...and then the brush tip pen got all hard by the time I picked it up again.
Is there any way to soften it? I tried to put it under...
I'm not sure where to post this or if I can post it but here goes...it can be moved or shut - as appropriate I guess.
I was invited to a Poultry Party!
¡§Poultry Party¡¨
Short Course
When: Saturday, March 28, 2009
9AM¡X12:30PM
Where: Carroll Community College
Rooms 157 - 159
1601 Washington...
I'm posting now but I won't need them til March. Just trying to find someone who might have some then. I have a sort of smallish hutch...probably better for one standard or two dwarf size. I'm partial to Dutch myself but any reasonable breed considered.
Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance.
http://www.amazon.com/Hen-Art-Chicken-Maintenance-Reflections/dp/1592287700/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230058441&sr=8-1
I got it from the library at lunch time and I'm cracking up....
Okay - who here has a chicken book inside just waiting...
This lady's blog has some really good pictures of the Mirror Egg at the American Visionary Art Museum. It's EGG-cellent! I saw it earlier this year.
http://www.memetician.com/2008/10/american-visionary-arts-museum-mirror.html
Any engineers out there? Can you figure out how big a chicken...
I just found out a local hardware store is going out of business and so I'm thinking I should get my coop supplies there "at deep discounts"...but I have no time to really research the following:
1. what I need to fence in the run with.
2. what to put on top of the run.
I would so...
I work in an Extension office and the 4-H secretary just called me. Seems a grandmother just bought an incubator for her 9-year old granddaughter for Christmas and wanted to know where they could get eggs. I'm supposed to get back to this lady since I'm now the unofficial chicken person around...
My chicken daddy (a friend - former 4-H agent who has a poultry operation) says I should get started with Brahmas. What do folks think of them as a "beginner's" bird?
My playhouse conversion henhouse is only 16sq ft inside...since Brahmas are bigger - will I have to cut down from my projected...
Our property has two houses on it and the woodlot is down the mountain a bit next to the other one...so I knew when I left work to go down there and pick up some wood for last night. I parked by that house and went around to the back, started to pick up wood when there was a heck of a lot of...
Chicken nuggets in their natural environment
http://weirdnews.about.com/od/suggestedreading/ig/Weird-News-Photo-Extravaganza/Wild-Chicken-McNuggets.htm
In the July/August 08 Countryside Magazine (pg 12) someone wrote in about how it's cheaper to raise your own eggs (no brainer there). He also says:
"I have goats now, and layer feed has too much copper in it so the chickens get goat ration, cracked corn and sweet feed. The goat has about the...
I was just wondering if there are any beekeepers among our flock here. I'm gonna take a beekeeping course in the spring and I'm gonna start a couple of top-bar hives.