Hello from Northeast Georgia! I need to rehome a buff orpington rooster and some buff hens. They are young and healthy and the hens just started laying eggs. Clean. No parasites. Organic fed. Will give rooster alone or with hens but rooster must go. Please help if you can. We don't want...
I need to rehome a buff orpington rooster and some buff hens. They are young and healthy and the hens just started laying eggs. Clean. No parasites. Organic fed. Will give rooster alone or with hens but rooster must go. Please help if you can. We don't want to slaughter or release.
So we've managed to come up with a way to keep the chickens in their enclosure. However on of our Cuckoo Marans, that we affectionately refer to as the escape chicken manages to get out every day. I believe my son just figured out why she's been so persistent. He found her sitting on a nest...
We're in North Georgia. About 40 minutes north of Atlanta. I've attached a couple of photos of something we found in the grain when I cleaned out the feeder a couple weeks ago. It had to have come from the yard as we did not find any in the bag when we checked for it. The images are really...
I thought about fleas but haven't seen any issue with them on the dog. I don't even see any come off of her when she gets bathed. And she isn't regularly treated.
I have not. However, the floor of the enclosed portion of the coop is what is below the perches and the whole thing gets pulled out daily to dry in the sun and get cleared of droppings. I use sand and small pine shavings for the litter on the board and then sprinkle Coop and Compost granules...
We are having an issue with getting eaten alive when we go out to the pin to check on the chickens and do our daily maintenance. Initially it seemed only to occur in the evening when my husband goes out to close the coop after they have put themselves to "bed". He would get dozens of bites...
Hey, Everyone!
This is our first foray into keeping chickens. We've had our ladies, and one gentleman, since March. Currently we have 6 Buffs(1 rooster;5 hens), 2 Cuckoo Marans(both hens) and 1 Black Australorp(hen. I'm pretty sure). I found BYC by way of Pinterest and Googling in general...