Recent content by eichenluft

the hawk is only doing what it does to survive. If you have hawks or other predators in your area, you must keep your chicks protected - put them in crates with food, water and bedding and keep them there until they are large enough to run for cover, or too large to be of interest to the hawks...

my hens and roosters roost outside, even though they have a chicken house with easy access, they all prefer to get up into two trees that are near the chicken house, and some sit along the pen fencing. A few go into the dog houses inside the pen, and every night after dark I go close the pen...

also if you don't separate the male and female, or neuter the male, you will very quickly have LOTS AND LOTS of rabbits! They are very good at reproducing!

I have two female ducks, they are glued together all of the time. Never more than a few inches apart from one another. The other day one of my dogs got out of the kennel - my dogs are normally fine around the ducks/chickens but I guess when unsupervised he took advantage of his freedom. He...

I've given all of my extra roos to friends, for free with their agreement that they are killed humanely. I can't kill anything myself, nor eat something I've raised and fed from chick to adult. So off they go. They are "put to sleep" with ether before being killed. So it's not a bad way for...

raptors/birds of prey are protected. Don't shoot him, it is illegal and you can get in big trouble, not to mention they are protected for a reason - they don't reproduce well enough to sustain the species if they were hunted/exterminated as pest animals.. Instead, prevent problems by keeping...

I feed raw eggs to my dogs every night, and the dogs that don't eat eggshells, I rinse them, let them dry for a couple days, then crush the shells with my hand and feed them to my finches (who LOVE crushed egg shells) and the rest go in with the old finch seed and get thrown out on the yard for...

Good news - last night when I went to "put them to bed" the chick was lying upright in the back of the crate, but head up/alert - I changed the water, and checked once more to see, and she was up and walking around with the others. So I guess she's going to be ok. I have no idea what was wrong...

I don't think it's spraddle leg - her legs aren't spraddled for one thing - she can use them but they appear very weak, she goes down on her chest after trying to walk even a little bit. She can move her legs - not paralyzed. She's eating and drinking and bright-eyed - and this just happened...

I just moved my older chicks (3 weeks old, they have their wing feathers in and most of the feathers on chests also) - out to the barn yesterday - they have been in the "brooder" - deep box container with heat lamp - until they just simply grew out of it - they were too crowded and were jumping...

those are really big snakes - what DO you feed them? I'd guess - chickens? molly

the first chick is a speckled hamburg - and yes the ones that are dark grey with thin stripes on back and white specks on head, are silver-laced wyandottes. The hospital box was the box they were shipped in - but the chicks were placed in there because they WERE ALREADY sick and fading, so I...

Bats are GOOD - they eat MANY MANY MANY flying insects every night - they are not aggressive, do not attack people or chickens - they are creatures to encourage to live in places like your barn, your coop - even put bathouses out to try to get them on your property. They are amazing creatures...

the coral snake is poisonous for one reason - to kill mice. It's not poisonous so it can kill you, your kids, your family or your dogs - not fair to kill something just because you're afraid of it or because it happens to crawl instead of walk. Put it somewhere where it can live it's life...

goat, or sheep - they are all ruminants (chew their cud) so they would probably get along ok. But as someone said - the best friend for a cow is another cow. Like horses, they get along best with their own species. Luckily, you can get a mini horse or pony, donkey or something else small to...