Recent content by riverpilot69

Yes I do. extra deep laying boxes. All of the hens use them and I have not had an issue with them not laying in them. I do not find eggs under the roost every day, just every now and then. It just puzzles me as to why this happens.

I will try some yogurt. The hens are 14 months old. I use Bragg's in their water and they seem fine other than looking like the ran out of toilet paper. This has just recently started and 3 out of 12 has this issue. What brand of yogurt do you suggest?

14 months. Just started recently.

I have noticed here lately that I have some hens with pasty vents. I was also wondering what is the best and quickest cure for this issue? Thanks.

Please keep us posted. This is very interesting and would I like to hear the outcome. Thanks.

Lately I have found thin shelled broken eggs under the roosting bar in my coop. My girls get plenty of calcium in their diet as well as oyster shells. It seems as if the hen is expelling the egg like she would normaly poop while roosting? I have never had this happen before and am curious as to...

Be very careful with the hops. Hops are extremely poisonous to dogs. It will kill them within 24 hours. I am not sure how poultry would react to hops. I would research it in depth.

Exactly. We got our dog when he was a pup. He is now 130 lbs. of big oaf. He would not hurt a fly unless you were trying to harm a family member. We live in the country and we let our son, who was 3 at the time, play in our front yard. We always sent the dog with him. One day the mailman pulled...

I also forgot to add that I dropped a coyote at 120 yards yesterday with my new AR-15. (Yes. I am bragging a little.)

If one of my neighbors did that, he would not have to worry about feeding his dogs that evening. I would have shot them on the spot and called him to inform him that he needed to get his deceased dogs out of my yard.

Had a predator rip a big gash in the breast of one of my girls. The other chickens did not peck at her, so I let her stay with the flock. She completely healed up without harassment from the others. Took about 3 weeks. about 5 for the feathers to come back in. You cannot tell she was even...

That is a very good idea. She won't get picked on when she resumes living with the flock.

Good luck.

Still trying to decide on a name for him. My daughter named the hen Miss Priss.

I had an old farmer down the road give me a Partridge Cochin pair yesterday. I was in a farm supply store looking at the new batch of chicks and such. He stopped and saw the price on a pair of Cochins ($35.00) and asked if I was thinking about purchasing them? I told him that I was looking for a...