Recent content by djhowe69

There’s nothing to really to take a pic of, his leg looks ok. But when you pick him up and squeeze it there is no leg muscle you can only feel bone and tendons. He’s a year old and he eats pellets, grass and bugs...

My rooster started limping pretty bad a few days ago. I stopped allowing him to free range, thinking he had injured his leg during a previous day out. Yesterday I picked him up to assess why he wasn’t getting any better and noticed his injured leg has almost zero muscle on the drumstick and the...

I had this same question today, cause I walked outside this afternoon and saw my “Big Boy” roo trying to mount one of his daughters. Imagine this pairing... the roo is a White Cornish and the hen was a barred rock. The chicks were all fluffy and yellow. Now as young adults they’re white with two...

Okay, so last year I purchased 6 Cornish chicks and 12 black Asian chicks from The Tractor Supply store. Three of the Cornish chicks died over the first couple months and four of the black Asians died as well. Not a shocked at all by the loss of any chicks, winter was long and cold and took a...

Shoot it if you can. They will not stop until you are chicken-less. I had 24 birds and a fox wiped 20 during the spring of 2015, I attempted to shoot it 6 times before I finally got it and it ran into the woods and never came back. What do I see in the field last week but a red fox casing our...

Be careful with dogs, they have a strong instinct to hunt and kill things that scurry around. I remember after My chicks fledged I moved our them out of the house brooder and into a wire kennel in the barn. My German Shepard was tied out and he managed to pull the kennel closer to his area and...

That's a beautiful coop, looks like you thought of everything. Maybe you could try putting them away at night. Place them on their roost, make sure it's nice and dark, shut the door to the chicken run when you leave them. I can remember once I was cleaning out the dirty hay and chicken crap from...

He's gonna eat your mice and your eggs.

Put a .22 caliber hollow point or a Magnum 22 hollow point into the skunk's head. Don't worry, the small goes away over time. You can also set out a dish of pure vanilla extract to dissipate the smell.

Well, it's almost been a month. The silkies were moved out to the coop after three days cause my wife didn't want the basement to start stinking. Anyway, everybody is still here. They have started to grow their plumage back. Unfortunately, the older hens started their horrible egg eating habit...

My daughter’s friend from school had a rather tragic incident with her coop. The heat lamp tipped over into the straw bedding and started a huge fire. When her uncle got to the house it was a huge blaze. He opened the door expected to see nothing but a St. Hubert from hell (that’s a joke for...

So far there have been four chicks of which two were killed before I found them, most likely by one of the other chickens. What should I do? There are still about 15 eggs under her and about ten under the another hen. Should I separate the brooders from the main flock? Should I be separating...

OMG! I forgot about the **** frostbite. When I was 8 my parents got me a small flock of chickens to take care of . My roo (Roosty) got frostbitten tips the first winter . I remember I was completely freaked out about it. The tips blackened and eventually fell of leaving one long thin scar down...

OMG!!!! I had a four foot rat snake milling around my barn last month. I managed to pulverize it with an ash rake, but it was nothing like that titanoboa! I don't do snakes. Call me Indy.

Honestly, I just use an old egg carton from the store bought eggs. It holds a dozen and you can put it in your fridge when you bring them in the house. I do believe Walmart has a plastic version in the kitchen department.