Recent content by midwestbest

Here is our poor girl. I hope I did the right thing.... My thought is. 1. She initially was injured by a predator 2. This is a heavy molt turned cannibalistic. 3. She broke her leg, then the others ganged up on her :(

I culled my white rock today. I'm an avid waterfowler and I know I'll get grief for being a hunter, but my point is I've never felt so down about killing a bird. Long story short. I was out of town, dad stopped in to check the birds. He sent me pictures of one of the girls pecked bloody. I had...

Inside is like fort Knox :)

I've had plenty of coyotes and raccoons circling our run throughout the night but are birds are safe. We turn the horse stall into the coop and put a small run outside the dairy barn. We've learned to surround the coop completely. We also buried the fence to keep burrowing foxes/ coyotes out...

So im on night two of rat war. I have seen two so far. I have a huge dairy barn with 9 cute 20 month hens in a corner stall. They have a pop hole to an outside run. I have been sitting outside and shooting them as they run in front of the pop hole. My girls are roosting about 6feet from the...

hello folks I should have joined a long time ago but thank you so much for all the help And advice. These are my girls and we got the first egg today... :)