9-week-old Malines cockerels purchased from Greenfire Farms. See Greenfire's description of the Malines breed here: https://greenfirefarms.com/malines.html
I have 2 available and am in the Tallahassee area. I keep a closed flock and these chicks have been kept completely separated from my other...
What should I do if my chicks did not get their Corid dose on day 3 of treatment?
I received my chicks at the post office last Wednesday and a few hours later my fiancé was in a really bad car accident and was taken to the neuro intensive care unit. When I got back from the hospital that night...
We just made a lid for our stock tank this weekend. It may be excessive for just keeping your cats out, ours is outside on our front porch so it needed to be as predator proof as possible. We screwed the 2x4s into the stock tank walls then connected the top frame with hinges and a lock on the...
Thanks dawg53! I really hope they are not red chicken mites.
I'm glad you brought that up! I have a chicken tractor that is open on three sides and the nest boxes make a "wall" on the fourth side. So I'm not sure when I am reading things if I should be following the advice for coops or the...
Thank you ChickNanny13, I just updated my profile with my location! I went out after dark last night and looked into the next box where they were sleeping and did not see any obvious mites crawling on the chicks or on the wood but I will go out again tonight and do an actual mite check on the...
Hey guys! I was refilling one of the PVC feeders in my chicken run this afternoon and realized (after carrying it all the way across the yard against my body - UGH) that it was covered in tiny reddish brown moving specks. Are these the bad kind of mites that suck the blood from chickens? I live...
This is too funny. I just bought my first ever chicks at tractor supply last Sunday and asked for 8 light brahma chicks. Fast forward to today and I noticed only 3 of the chicks have yellow legs with feathering, the other 5 have blue grey legs and also have a little puff on the tops of their...