Ok so my girls started laying for the first time this week! Yay! Anyhow we picked up the first two eggs yesterday and of course she has another today. But today she seems to be going broody. She walked out of the coop for on a couple minutes then back to her egg. I would like to have her hatch...
Ok so we are NEW to having pigs. I'm sure we will get it all figured out here eventually. But anyhow we are getting free reject piglets from a local confinement. They all have something wrong with them. Maybe an abscess or a castration hernia or something. Anyhow my main question today is I...
So I don't have a pic to upload at the moment but just a quick question. I just got a free barred rock rooster. He is a beautiful boy! Full grown but much smaller than a barred rock should be also he has half feathered legs and feet ( like a silkie or emperor) I'm new to the chick scene so...
So how young can you start feeding chicks fodder. Mine are about 7-8 weeks right now and was wondering if they can start getting fodder yet. They are kind bored in the brooder and even with chick sticks and homemade chick sticks they are flying through those like crazy! I can't wait to let the...
Okay so got a few mystery pullets from Theisens. Can't figure these out I think they will be EE's ( they have green tint to their legs and toes btw) anybody care to let me know what breed?
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Hey all. So new to this site obviously but also new to everything else! Just bought our farm in February and am smack dab in the middle of clean up. Previous owners left the place a mess. But it's a diamond in the rough :) so it came with a Great Pyrenees and 13 barn cats and two more are preg...
Okay so I asked the neighbors if they would mind if we picked up all the ears of corn they drop during harvest. They said we could have as much as we wanted to go pick up! :D Now I'm talking they have hundreds of acres!!!! This corn could go to my chickens, rabbits, goats, hog, heifer etc! So...