Recent content by bmanty

Awesome. Thank you, when you say deep dry bedding do you mean you just make some layers of it and let it pile up throughout winter inside the coop? I like to keep it clean if I can but 10 degrees or 20 below, its not happening, so do you put down bedding and later put down more and just keep...

Ok. Good to know, thank you, ive all ready noticed ten days on the differences in food co nsumption

I have 15 meat birds and 15 layer babies I ordered, I have 2 ducks and 7 chickens in my coop now. I plan to process meat birds between 6 to 10 weeks or sooner depending on size, are they ok to hang in the coop for that time being with the layers or should I get a tractor or outdoor pen for them...

This year I am raising the most I have ever. 15 broilers and 15 hatchery choice layers. Previous years I did 4 or 7 birds, and a a couple ducks. I will be pressed for room and will have to make some more perches or saw horses in the coop for roosting. Preperations I get my brooder ready. We...

My first two I ever raised that are still alive are 6 years old. I dont see the barred rock at all ever in a nesting box anymore but the RIR sure is broody but I dont think she is laying either, just likes to hog the nest and stay there. Being they are my first two they get to keep on living as...

Thanks. Chickens can be mutts too..lol.. I remember dogs were mutts if mixed now people pay thousands for specific mixed breeds, can same go for chickens:confused::D ha ha. Thanks again, happy easter!

After some more research I'm thinking they gave me some mixed easter eggers perhaps??

I ordered layer hatchery choice from hoovers this year, I need help in ID, the gold ( 5 of them) am assuming are white leghorns, the light brown stripes are brown leghorns is my guess, the darker ones and the darker brown and brown stripes i am unsure..maybe welsummer. The chick ID pictures I...

The past few years I have raised Chicks I have put them out in the coop at 6 to 8 weeks old for good. Once the weather in Minnesota end of May is nice and they have a good chunk of feathers it has worked out fine. One year I would put them out for 30 minutes or an hour or so into the run to play...

Usually I go with straw in winter, horse bedding or animal shaved wood bedding gets mixed.in and i use the shaved chips in spring and summer

Thanks everyone .ill try some spring and summer clean up in the run and see how they do with it

Got new babies today. 15 cornish and 15 mixed bag of layers, cant id them yet...they look alike,..lol

What does everyone do in the frigid lands with compost after coop clean up. I dump it in my back property but it just sits there, sometimes I offer people.to come get it for free for gardens, is it ok to maybe put it in the coop yard and let the chickens work it down to dirt. I justdont want to...

Thank you, I will check the crops, I have not seen any yellow material and foul smelling as of now

The first ones I have ever raised on my own are going to be five this April. I do not see them on the nesting boxes or laying so if they do its not much, but still in good healthy movement and all. I have had some at two years old fall over dead at some point in the night, I have others pushing...