Recent content by Bryce Thomas

While this did happen long ago, its strange that it happened at all to me. Her mother is a purebred silkie, and her father is a mix between a silkie and something I dont know. Silkies are known for their calmness, ive had aggressive birds before, but they were all roos. Ive never had a rude...

UPDATE: I should have mention that this garden is a raised bed, but 1.5 feet raised. Its just full of clay soil since that's the cheapest soil that companies sell out here. I used a shovel to till and while it will be a long process, i'm definitely getting much more progress with the shovel than...

Preach. I knew a friend who got a BC thinking it was a lap dog. She had to give away the dog within 2 weeks of getting it because she could not keep up with the high energy demands. I still don't know what she was thinking.

I am starting a garden that is pure clay soil, as is all soil here in AZ. I am tilling horse poop into it so it has organic matter, then I wont till again because I believe in no-till gardens. The only issue is that the clay soil is rock hard after half an inch and the garden is 1 and a half...

thanks for the help, lol

Hello everybody. I am considering changing my chicken feed to goat pellets. The reason I am doing this is many of my friends have said that their chickens have stopped laying eggs and they tried changing the food but nothing worked. They said goat pellets made their girls happy and they started...

It was 8PM last night when the thought struck me. I was thinking of all the frostbite that can affect chickens, then I thought of it. I call it the thermal roost. Take a roosting stick, like a 1x1 inch plywood rod, but cover it in thermal heating then in cover/lining to prevent overheating...

Sorry for being late. Try feeding her lots of proteins. This will help the muscles of her digestive tract and help her get stronger. Is she getting better??

I was watching a youtube video recently about a farmer losing a peacock to worms. The vet said the fecal sample/report came back and they found 2 species of worms, both are fatal to poultry. Are worms fatal? I thought they could be treated at home with DE or something of the sort. I mean fatal...

Do you think I can use chicken straw? that's unused as in still in the packaging? I have a ton of that stuff but I don't know if its good to only use one type of brown

I might just burn it then. is the ash leftover safe for the garden?

Hello, I am starting a new batch of compost, my last one was beautiful and am growing bee feed (flower mixes good for wild bees) in it. Can I use cardboard as browns? I will try and use some sticks, but I am weirded out how the first time I ever did composting the cardboard didn't really break...

I have some that do. I can make this kind of chewbacca sound with my throat and I can fine tune it to make chicken sounds and rooster sounds, every time I make a rooster sound the chickens react in the same way but towards me like that. I used to have this sassy hen that was a bantam silky and...

True but I'm not too sure if they will ever go that far, I now only own 2 small silkie hens and they eat mostly insects and feed from the feed store, when I put them in a grass pasture that has multiple grass variety's they peck a little and then go wander off I dont want the entire run...

Chickens generally will not eat their poo if they are fed enough, mine never have eaten their own poo If you are going to use a fertilizer, use one that is organic (means natural, like chicken/horse/cow poo), chemical fertilizers damage the plant, soil microbiome and the animals around it...