I use metal scrub to get off poo or dirt marks and clean with peroxide as it does not break the bearer. Eggs can be left out but loose nutrition daily.
Chickens take their time ranging from security of home. If I want them to be more secure at further distance I sit out with them a little further every night. also putting a table out for them to hide under and water/food out around the protection you create. you can move this around. a low...
Chickens to be added can free range with others all summer with no problem but the minute you put them together in one coop pecking order will accelerate. It is not as aggressive as putting them together cold, the new birds have a good understanding of their standing already. The more new birds...
I enjoyed your article will be leaving my newer little chickens in their coop a week as suggested. I had them in new house overnight but had to put ALL of them in tonight. The rooster story reminds me of my own who will watch over the girls calling them to food while they stand aside as girls...
I had a Houdan rooster. I enjoyed him. I called him Kato even though he was named pretty boy early on. He kept people 'on their guard' I have had roosters like this before and one was a silky believe it or not, I called him Harley. Pretty Boy was a sneak up behind you rooster and we, he and I...
didn't get help I see. I was just looking for same info. I have some older turkey poults and found 1 pink meaty looking poo in their house, looked sort of like a some what digested worm. So far have found no info on this.
I have turkey eggs with small dark spot that moves freely to top of egg as I turn it at 10 day candling, yoke still appears firm, there is evidence of veins, some have the dark spot that does not roll to the top of egg as I turn it and yoke shadow is firm. Some eggs seem that yoke is loose...