My chicks that are about 8 weeks old are piling on top of each other since I have moved them out side to their coop. I placed buckets in the corners but it hasn't stopped them. I don't have heat lights on them - I am in Florida and it has be very warm at night. I have lost a couple of chicks...
Everyone is right about not spending alot of money on a coop until you make sure that they will go into it. I had my ducks temporarily in a old chicken coop until I built their new house. They definitely would not walk up the ramp so I had to pick them up and put them in everynight. The house...
Quail pens...not complete yet. I have a frame of a building that I normally use as a greenhouse but I am getting a new bigger greenhouse this year so I am turning this into the quail area. For the pens I took the tables that I used for starting seeds on that already have wire bottoms and added...
Chicks arrive!
Peanut my long haired chiuhuana checking out the new arrivals!
First day out of the brooder and on the grass!
First day in the coop! Coop still being worked on though.
Speckled Sussex soaking up the rays on the deck!
Maude the golden polish!
Gertude the silver polish...
Hello everyone! I am a young female farmer in Samsula Florida - south west of Daytona Beach area. My husband and I own a landscape and irrigation company in the area. When the economic situation changed we began selling plants at local farmers markets a couple of years ago. At first I was...
Old playhouse that I found a guy selling on the side of the road. This is it getting deliverd - yes it looked like a shaky operation!
Playhouse being unloaded!
First day chickens are in their new home.
Finally finished! Retrofitted playhouse, new range coop for additional hawk protection...
My chickens (26 hens and 1 rooster) have been laying really well the last couple months but the last two times I went to the coop to collect eggs there as been one broken one within the other eggs. It isn't just pecked once, but completely broken and some of it appears to be missing. The only...
I sell my eggs for $4 a dozen or $3.50 with a carton return in Florida. I have people interested in soy free eggs and they are willing to pay $7-$8 a dozen.
I bought ducks eggs from another farm and paid $18 a dozen.
I sell plants at the farmers market so my customers buy them. I pre sell...
Go to your local farmers market and check websites like local harvest. The most important thing once you find a potential meat source is to ask if you can visit their farm. If they don't want you to come out they are probably hiding something. If they do let you come out then you can...
I have done a lot of research on this subject and I agree/disagree with a lot that has been bought up here and it tooks like other posters corrected some of the wrong information so I did not post to debate anything and would rather stay out of it.
I have a small farm that I grow vegetables...
It's people like this that give responsible duck owners a bad name. I live in Florida and have had too go through a ton of paperwork through the Florida Wildlife Commission just to own Indian Runner Duck because so many people kept letting there unwanted ducks go into the wild. If people would...