Recent content by amberr

I cover half my run with clear corrugated roofing so they have a place to come outside but stay dry. I also add a lot of hay or straw inside the coop for insulation. I do more special treats in winter too like earth worms or meal worms.

My littlest chick was the most adventurest on their outdoor outing for the first time today! She is 6 weeks and still so tiny. Big chickens those little silkies and bantams, they kept together in a tight group and didn't explore much.

I had no idea chickens would get ticks, we have tons but hoping the Guineas take care of that for next year. So now what might be a dumb question.... Are chickens bothered by foxtails like other animals? We have tons of that stuff growing around what will be their free ranging areas. And now a...

Ya I know what you mean, used my last bag of pellets from the garage last night! Brrrrrr

Thanks peeps. I did have paper towels down and ran out. How long do you keep them on paper towels? Or puppy pads I had a few of those, one was in water area. I did recall the marble thing, it's hard to see but water is on an elevated area (upside down plater) so I was hoping that would help them...

Any hints on training for the chickens? We also have a rescued 2 year old Chesapeake retriever just got him 6weeks ago.

I had 10, one died Saturday night looks like suffocated between the feed dish and floor/side or was keet on the bottom, no signs of injury or illness. We have since moved the food dish out a few inches from edge of playpen. I free feed turkey starter and give them a small dish of FF chick...

This was a day ago I'm playing catch up, how do you plan on staking your goats? We also want goats for thinning the underbrush but it'll be a while before we can do fencing. So we talked about staking but not sure how, with goat loving to chew through everything...

Keets arrived today :) aren't they cute! So different from the chicks but going to be exactly what I needed. Loud little things lol, everyone talks about them being loud but man do they jabber, I don't mind, just different.

Happy to report all my peeps are in the house! The week plus chicks (12) are growing so fast, just found breeder of Silkies in our area and got my kids their pet chickens (4) 2 day olds. And the 10 Guinea keets came today so below is my brooder room lol, the silkies are separated for a bit from...

I'm in medford and just got mine last week from the Grange all are doing well so far. A young lady I know with disabilities works at the Central Point Grange caring for chicks in the mornings so I like to give them my business But Craigslist is a good idea too. I've been looking for silkies...

Time for some chick photos they are growing so fast 1 week plus now. Started trying to give them greens spinach and parsley, they were not that interest This is my sweet littlest chick but biggest mouth! No name yet. This one took a shower in FF lol Here's our one Silkie we ended up with Ms...

aoxa; more waterer ideas (been looking for ideas already for my brooder pen I want to build) so these were handy :) http://swampyacresfarm.com/ChickenWaterer.html and of course on the thing this was good info

aoxa; How about the corner between door and window wall? This is an interesting idea https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/automatic-chicken-waterer-made-from-5-gallon-bucket

Wondering how this turned out, update?