My Border Collie is a working dog. We got chickens when he was Five. They were chicks when we got them and the brooder was in my work shop where he slept. His job was to herd cattle. When I put the chicks out the first time he decided he had to watch over them. He would keep them in a area...
I made a portable fence for my chicken tractor it is 40 x 40 I made a PVC frame and used 5ft plastic chicken wire from amazon. two people can move it, but I use a lawnmower with rope. Used 20ft sticks of PVC from local lumber yard. Used plastic wire ties to attach plastic fence. It was easy...
Sorry to hear about your Chickens (children). I do not what state you live in some states are what are called (fence out) states. In those states you are responsible to fence animals out. one of those states is Texas. That makes no difference to your loss. If they offered to pay find out...
I'm no Chicken expert, I'm new to back yard chickens. I can understand the sadness you feel. I'm 75 and retired 5 years ago. I had an experience some years ago, I raised and sold Brangus heifers, and in one pasture a few got sick and started dieing the vet could not figure out what was wrong...
I've done a combination of things and all is good in chicken vill. Have not been giving treats. I reduced there area to forage, they have picked a food they will eat, the Purina. Each day now they are eating more feed. I think in about a week I will let them have the full run. Thank all of you...
It is obvious you didn't read the whole post, they had gone two weeks with no treats. By the way what I started giving them in the evenings is very little less than a cup between all the chickens.
They have oyster shell and grits free choice, plenty of fresh water. They feed choice of Purina Layne, Texas natural feed(which they were raised on) and layer crumbles from a local feed mill. They get no scratch. had gone two weeks without any treats. that is when I made up what I gave them.
Hello I have 12 Chickens between 18 and 24 weeks old. They have approx 6000 sq feed to run. In the evening they get a treat of groats, meal worms, sunflower seed, oyster shell and some crimped oat, not alot. they eat it all. I've put out in different feeders two different feeds. There are...