Recent content by Deeregirl

Thanks everyone! I was worried about heat loss at first, but it is in the machine shop side of the garage which is insulated and heated. The heater is close to the brooder and keeps a constant temp, so that along with the lights seems to be fine. We have laser heat guns that we use to check...

Wow, so many great ideas! As a newbie this website and especially the forum has been a great resource and has offered such good advice and creative ideas! My grandfather had an old playpen stored in his garage that no one was going to use anymore, so I put it to good use! I picked up my...

I can't find the original link I found this information on, but I am new to chicks and unfortunately I found out about pasty butt the hard way after loosing a chick to it. I found and took the advice to put 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar/quart of water - no more - and have had no problem with pasty...

Thank you for your help, sadly, she just died I just hope that the rest will be ok.

This afternoon all chicks seemed fine, but I just checked on them and one of my barred rocks would not get up or open his/her eyes. I picked it up and noticed its butt was pasty. I cleaned it off with warm water and very gently squeezed it's butt and some poop did come out, and it did peep and...

Hi from PA! I am living with my boyfriend on what used to be his grandparents farm, and we are beginning to make it a small farm once again. We have two female dogs, a black lab and a yorkie. Tomorrow I will be picking up our chicks. We will have 10 layers (hoping for 1 rooster), and 15...