Recent content by melissasz

I have twentyfour hens and they go through a fifty pound bag a week! Sometimes a little more. They get all of our "good" scraps and we buy them a cabbage a week plus any other friuts and veggies we find on clearence. On one hand I'm going broke buying food but on the other the girls are...

I don't have any good advice for you but I have 24 hens and they sometimes do it. Not all at once but in an order that I don't understand. LOL! I also go to them and make sure they have food and water. I'm afraid my neighbors are going to get angry with me. For now I'm keeping them on the third...

We have thirty month old chicks. I'm keeping them in the top floor of our barn in a brooder we built so the cats and other animals can't get to them. We also have bats that hang out in the eves of the barn. Yesterday I was told if the chickens eat bat poop they will get sick and probably die...

Hi- I have 30 Red Star baby chicks. A few of them are pooping black sticky poo. Is this normal? Should I watch and try to see who's doing it and separate them? This just started last evening. Thanks for any advice, Melissa

Hi, I'm using a heat bulb? I put our thermometer on the wall touching the ground up but I will move it to the floor underneath the light. We had kind of a strange night. It was 90 in the brooder at 2am. At 5am it was only 80. I dropped the light down a few inches and the temp is creeping back...

Hi We are in Maine:)

Thanks for the welcome and the reply. Do you have your brooder light on a thermostat?

Hi Everyone - As of today we are the proud owner of thirty Red-Stars. So far everything is going well but it is very hot and my brooder is up to 95 or a bit above. It doesn't seem to be bothering them. I shut it off for awhile while I cleaned the water tank and when I turned it on again they all...