Recent content by Hidrainja4

All winter not enough production. I shamefully buy store eggs because my 25 chickens don't lay enough eggs in the winter. Then comes spring and I sell a few dozen eggs per week roadside and several dozen eggs goes to the food bank. I have read that you can preserve eggs but I have never done...

I have never seen aztec ducks in person, I have only seen them on the internet.:(

well, well, well, I cannot keep cats from bothering my chickens, except I have big chickens that aren't afraid on any old cat. I see two ways to go on this, 1. You could put a top fence over your chickens that would keep out the cat and hawks and owls and foxes. 2. You could set a have a hart...

I give my flock meal worms year round to get them in the coop at night. So that is not winter feed and my darlings hunt little rodents and eat them so I consider that animal protein but it is not nice to talk about and that is year round also.

I live in northern Ohio. I can count on two solid weeks in winter when my birds can't get outside because of weather. I hang a wal mart birdseed bell for them to play with, throw wheat straw down on the coop floor so they can scratch through it. In bitter cold I give them a small amount of whole...

Best practises- roosting bars are removeable. you can buy metal thingies' or notch a board attach to the wall. This lets you take them out of the coop for cleaning and painting. When you can remove the bars it gives you more room for cleaning when you are in the coop or catching chickens in a...

Obtain your pullets at the end of Summer or Early fall. Then do not add any artificial light over Winter. When the natural light gets close to fourteen hours a day they will lay the larger eggs because they are fully mature bigger birds.

Well, I would like to know also. the hatchery mistakenly sent me Pekins instead of Duclairs.:mad: I thought something was wrong when they grew so big. When they started laying dingey white eggs instead of blue-green eggs I contacted the hatchery. I sent pictures and they refunded my money for...

Really great pictures are they from a phone camera? Totally great pics. Heavily feathered feet would be Cochin. Lightly feathered going down to the outside toe Marans legs as they mature are gray/slate color. I have had both. Even as day old chicks Cochin and other meat birds have a wide stance...

That is a red star. Easy way to tell the white feathers color underneath her buff color. Buff Orpingtons are buff feathered all the way through the feathers . no whiteness or light almost white. That is number one to quickly tell the difference, however, Buff Orpingtons have a puffiness to how...

Put a lock on the gate so she can't open it. Simple, A bicycle lock and cable would do it. Get more chickens.

Your approach must be complete.I do not use poison. I have seen good dogs and cats die from eating a poisoned rodent. 1. The food must be in a metal garbage can with a lid. A metal treadle feeder so there is no food laying around. Some people take up all food overnight. Chickens can't see at...

This is the first comment ever that I read about the hazards of electric fences. I was envious thinking, gee I would like an electric fence. It would give me the ability to increase their pasture area. Pros and cons to everything.

Now I don't feel so bad about accidently selling that lady a cockerel instead of a pullet at 14 weeks of age. Sorry! Just to add to the fun... I had a hen that after the rooster was removed from the flock she took over the role of rooster. Mounting, guarding, tidbiting, and stopped laying eggs...

I have electricity in two coops have electric water bowls in there. One coop with an old chicken in by herself I exchange her water three times a day. In this February cold spell it is frozen solid, three times a day.