WindingRoad,
Consider not heating your birds. You'll save money on electricity, and if/when you lose power your birds will not plunge down in temperature severely. My birds acclimate to the weather during the fall, and even when they're molting and it's cold, they do fine. I have never, ever...
Can't wait for next Sunday. The dog has been really upset, between the early onset of dark and hunting season, we haven't gone into the woods to track in a long time. Even wearing blaze orange... just don't trust people to not be morons.
Still need to do the heated waterers, today seems like a good day.
Doing the roosters right now, think I waited too long, the first one froze to the table.
Good morning, Mainers. Hopefully you're starting to see eggs, now that there's more light.
I was a bit dismayed to see snow this morning but I'm going to be bold and not shovel it.
My flock gets crushed up egg shells, as well as oyster shell, and they don't eat eggs. I wouldn't worry about it unless you're finding a pattern. Some of my fat girls crush eggs, or like bucka said, a thin shell will crack, and they'll devour it.
I threw an egg out that was cracked this...
Yes, coumarins are still available (the blood thinners). It wouldn't be the soil persistence I'd worry about, but rather where the animal dies and whether it gets back into the food chain. If the carcass got eaten, the next animal will get a dose.
I have had a few banties in my life here, still have two in the flock. Banties are nice, once they settle down, but when they're juvies, boy do they fly. High, high up in trees. You may not have this problem since you seem more city like and likely have an enclosed shelter, but out here in the...
Rats here, too. I was on the phone trying to be professional and dealing with a bill dispute when a rat ran across the yard right next to me.
Not the best to let out a girly scream and then have to explain that it was a rat.
I tended to the Poo Mountain Range today on the tables beneath the roost. Poo Mountain (right under where the big tom turkey sits) was probably 10 inches tall. :sick
Ducks were huddled in the back of the duck house. I rarely see them cower from weather.
In the time it took me to shovel the (3) stairs off and snowblow a small area for the dog to go out and pee tonight we had gotten another inch.