Recent content by BryceR

You can mix in smashed up egg shells.

I dont plan on eathing these ones I was just curious. Shes the friendliest one I have and she'll peck the bigger ones out of the feeder all the time. So shes pretty feisty.

I got these two at the same time and I think they are about 8 weeks old as of this week. The smaller one is a little more than half the size of all the other chickens. She eats as much as she wants and she doesn't seem to be anywhere close to the bottom of the pecking order. Is she going to fill...

Thats great! Awesome job on the coop! Can you tell me a little about the solar fan you have? That might be a great addition to my coop I'm working on now. That would come in handy for the summers here in AZ.

Thanks! They really like it. Ever since I put them in there they are way more active. Within the first couple hours a few started trying to fly. Its about 8' long, 3' wide and 2' tall. The next one I build I think I would make it a foot taller though just to give them a little more head room. I...

I just got this done for my fast growing flock! They were quickly outgrowing the Rubbermaid container and I had this old plywood boat I made awhile ago just collecting dust in the backyard so I put a top on it and added some removable shelves and an adjustable light pole that I can swing out of...

Oh no!!! We woke up this morning and checked on her and she died in the night. She seemed like she was doing better but also regressing at times so I separated her after she started looking better the first time to give her space from the other chicks and hopefully recover. I guess it didn't...

She seems to be improving since last night. She gets around pretty good now with the hobble and can make her way to the water and drink. She's still not eating very well but she has stopped the panting/gasping/chirp. Every couple hours I make her a mash of warm water, mealworms and medicated...

I taped her legs with a bandaid like in the website Eggcessive linked (thanks!!) and she seems to be doing a little better already. It took some bribing with a meal worm to get her to walk with it and not just sit there and peck the bandaid but she at least made it to the water jug and drank a...

Its construction sand that has been sifted so what's left is gravel about the size of aquarium gravel now. All the other chicks are fine. I have the heat lamp over one side and its right at 93 degrees right under the lamp. The other side of the bin is about 83 - 85. They sleep all spread out so...

We started them on regular chick starter for a couple days because everywhere around my house was out of medicated. Today I drove about 100 miles round trip to pick some up, so as of today they went to medicated chick starter. The bedding is course small gravel, I sifted construction sand to...

I think she's about a week and a half old. She has a few wing feathers but the rest is still fuzz. We got her with the rest of our new flock this past Saturday and she has been doing this for the past two days. She seems to have lost a bit of balance and is chirping funny. She keeps her mouth...

Hello everybody!! I have been lurking on here for a little while so I thought it was time to introduce myself and my flock, I also have a couple questions :D We picked up all our girls this past Saturday from a couple different feed stores in the here in the valley. We got 2 Ameraucanas, 2...