My wife and I love living in our hideaway in the woods with all the wild animals our goats and of course chickens!
Pic of wife and kids
And my little buddy Lenny !
This years we started with 34 day old chicks in a 4x8 brooder, 7 Light Brahmas, 5 Partridge Rocks, 5 Black...
We have Boer goats and one has a worm problem and is being treated.
Do chickens get the same type of worms (like the barber pole worm?)
The reason I ask is we been collecting clover and grass from the pasture for the chickens and the the worms have part of their life cycle on the ground and...
My BIL used to raise hogs and used heated mats for the babies, he gave me a few for the pythons I was raising.
They come in all sizes here is an example of them,, http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/prod1;ft1_hog_management-ft1_brooders_heat_mats;pg106120.html
Oh their fiberglass and safe to...
MomtoSyd&Emma :
Can I play too? lol Here is our newest coop to be, we have been working on it on the weekends and when money will allow (not to often) it will be attached to the run area that is beside it after we make the fencing taller and cover it.
when we started it:(dh and oldest DD...