Today I was getting my girls some oyster shells and saw a tiny mouse looking at me! I poked around and saw that it had made a home in my goat feed bag, taken some corn, and broken into my girls mealworms!!! I really don"t want to kill it and poison is just a bad idea... I heard that snap-traps...
My large combed roo got a lot on his comb but the temperature only went down to 17 degrees. I've never had a chicken with frostbite so I thought that he had stuck his head in the chain link to attack the other rooster but wonder now if his comb falling off at the bottom .the top of it is...
I read that putting rosemary ( fresh or dried) in the nest box of a broody hen will help her feather oils and her babies all around health. I put some in my girls boxes even though they aren't broody and the coop smelled good for a day but then... well you know.
Also putting charcol in the...