Recent content by bwalters

I actually house y pregnant does and babies with my few bantam rocks and have 2 to 3 heat lamps going most times for a constant 40degrees. Birds know where it's warm as when I open the people door to go in....they are all underneath the lamps! I find my plymouth rock bantams are a little on...

can also use again Avon skin so soft oil spray for under wings and around vent area.

also can use ADAMS flea spray under birds wings and around vent area safe for chickens use the dog version.

for leg mites ! awesome cure and will cause old scales to naturally sluff off and legs will look like those of a young bird.....AVON SKIN SO SOFT SPRAY OIL [has to be the ORIGINAL version not the new scented varieties.] My NPIP tester said that I had the nicest smelling birds! LOL also...

Mine have some sort of light 24/7 as they share their coop with 8 rabbits and their offspring. Since I don't personally eat a lot of eggs and no longer have an 'egg business' it doesn't matter how many I get until it gets closer to end of jan when i start collecting to hatch in my incubator for...

all my eggs are coming out very pointy at each end and not nice round shaped eggs. i want to hatch artificially and wonder if these are worth trying? could it be coccidiosis or a dietary need?

I just looked the company up on line of the medication and called and they are able to tell you how much to mix [i.e. tablspn teaspoon, etc] in a gallon of water for small flocks like my own. Hope this helps. I also wondered about eating the eggs. I simply can't believe that if you treat hens...

wondering how you 'sprout' them?