Recent content by Heath239

I also live in good old Michigan I have 12 chickens and currently using a 5 gal. bucket and water nipples. I bought a submergible bucket deicer. It is called Ice chaser Model # H-49 from farm innovators. It cost about $40.00. I also have heat for the coop. I hope this helped you some. I am...

I have 11 hens and one rooster . My hens are plucking the feathers from my roosters back end. It was only the feathers at first , but now today I noticed he is starting to bleed . What can I do. I need help in Michigan.

I am from Michigan. It gets pretty cold at times. I built an 8X8 coup and it is insulated and I have a 100 watt inferred light to heat it and I have 100 Watt white light bulb on a timer to keep at least 14 hrs. of daylight. This for 11 hens and a Rooster. They are our pets more than the need...

I too have an aggressive rooster. So I'm up for any info. We don't want to get rid of him. And we do have grandkids that like to go in the coop.

We got a Easter rooster that was flu in from Vagas for my neese. She couldn't keep him because he was disturbing the neibors, she lives in the middle of town. The rooster we named Roady was easy going at first, but the past few days has gotten really aggressive. Not so much with the hens or my...