Question. Why must the water bucket be upside down? Would it be easier to drill holes near the bottom of the bucket, for an easy refill? I think I must have missed that day in class, sorry if already covered.
I place a shower curtain folded long way, in half under my roosts on top of the brooder. That way I can drag it out weekly to wash off and replace when its dry.
Wow that's quite far from South Texas, I must say! Maybe lookup BYC.com for S. Florida. I've been to Homestead btw. Nice community. I visited a non-profit Centro Campesino Farmworkers Ctr. there. good people!
Hello Wolvesry, I don't know if your birds are feathered in, or just babies, but as soon as my birds all fully feathered, I drop on cattle Ivermectin. 1 drop on skin of shoulders. That works for 6 months. It's increased as birds get larger,( barred rocks here). My adult birds get 2 drops per...
I also put Broccoli in a cage that I hang, so they have to jump to peck. It's usually gone in 2 days, for 6 chickens. I use the large winter bird suit cage. It is about the size of a BCrocker cookbook.
Hi Dawg, I'm replying to a post from a year ago. Regarding throwing eggs away for 24 days when worming chickens: Could i boil and feed those eggs to my dogs during that time?
What a shame! Such a beautiful dog. Not sure this would work, but , have you seen the Cesar Milan " Dog Whisperer" video clip about training dogs to avoid chickens? It worked for our grown Border Collie (who is very herd/hunt focused), Italian Greyhound,and fox terrier. Those are a tough bunch...
Great idea!I have 12 nest boxes and, you guessed, hens use 3! I am converting the entire top tier to brooding box which makes sense with heat in Texas, I should not have any worries about it ever being to cold for chicks, up there. I'll let you know how it goes.
thanks again.
Coop in the persimmon wood. Dimensions , not sure, that's a hubby question but I think it's 8x8x10. 12 nesting boxes and Brooder inside. Removed slated tin from above brooder and placed black screen on top and sides of brooder. All feed is kept in 50 gallon plastic feed barrels that have screw...
That is an awesome coop. have instructions of build?
On ramp solution, you might sit a shallow box next to ramp for a while until they get it through their chicken heads to use ramp to get inside.
WE store feed in sacks; 2 50lb bags to a 50 gallon blue HEAVY plastic barrels that have heavy screw on Lids.
I would say the gauge of plastic is at least 1/2 inch. I would hate to get clocked with one.