I am working on my chicken barn, was a 24x24 dog barn, I have five 4x6x5 tall one 4x14x5 tall at one end for my LF cochins, each pen has a door that is on a cable to close up at nigt or in bad weather, outside will be a 4x10x6 tall pen made out of dog kennels.. there is also a 12x12 office for...
Thanks everyone, the chick is doing fine. he/she has the eye, just not sure if it can see. It was filled with blood and was twice the size it should have been, then it drained and the eye scabbed over a little, the eye looks smaller than normal now, but it is doing fine.
Thanks again.
Loise
Hi,
I have a 1 day old chic that has lost an eye. Mom is sitting and this is the first to hatch, found it with blood and a blood filled eye and blood in it;s mouth. It is drinking and seems fine otherwise. It is in the house by the way.. it is now closed up and I am not sure how to treat it...
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Hi,
I am still pretty new to raiseing chickens and have learned alot from the Forum. I try to build my own stuff, but being disabled has been a challange. This is my Home Made Brooder:-) nothing fancy, but it works.
It is 2...
Thanks, I did not know what else to do. I do now, thanks to all the other advise from memberss. Yuck on the skunk, have not had one around here is over 6 years, thanks to an old Aussie that we used to have, he took care of ALL the neighbor hood skunks, and boy, did he smell like it.
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I am not sure if the link will work, as I do not really know how to ad pictures.
This is what I use to catch my critters..
ok, try this one, sorry.
I have a HH trap as well, but was tired of loseing the bait or the racoons flipping it over and getting away. I set up a simple way to stop that, all you need is a 33 gallon trash can, a piece of heavy wire and two cinder blocks. put your can down with the handles on the sides, wedge the cinder...