My experience and research regarding Trichomonas:
This can be very complicated depending on the severity. If caught early it can be treated successfully. Without any technical words..it is plainly a parasite (a protozoan). It is not like the internal parasites like roundworms and does not...
Hi! My name is Rachel, I live around rochester new york. I started my chicken family in May 2009. We adopted 6 and if you know chicken math, then you know I now have a lot more chickens. Thanks to broody hens it keeps growing. My DH is fabulous and he is a carpenter (lucky me) and he supports my...
These are my 2 coops, similar but not identical. I call them small and big coop (refering to the size of the chickens, not the coop size). We originally had the chickens in a repurposed metal shed and that worked great until a bear tried to break in. The bear pushed in one of the doors a good...
This is my best coop yet. It was a rip-off of a similar coop built by someone here on byc. We have it split into 2 identical halves cause when we built it we had 2 separate flocks that didn't like to mingle together. now it has a broody side and flock side. After my chicks all grow up, I will...