Still here, just been busy! Chickens are doing great. temperatures have been very cold -18 to -25 f at night, without the wind chill, and the birds are laying better than in the summer. Even my turkey started to lay.!
I just wanted to say that I would fence in around the bottom of the coop to keep predators out from under there. Especially at night. Also depending on where you are a coop in the air is going to be cold in the winter months.
The waterer, it just twists off. Should turn easy. Hold the white part, turn the red. Or vice versa. Should be little 'clips' for the jug bottom to slide into
I have blue azures, blue eggs, cornish rock crosses, light and darker brown, and speckled brown, barn yard mixes, off white, and speckled, and currently have chick Norian, and white leg horns, hopefully will get dark chocolate from the Norians and white from the leg horns.
My last hatch of the season. IN Verona, Ontario Canada.
Have Keets hatched July 18 and 19, 2021
Mainly Pearls.
Also eggs, both for hatching and for eating.
Chicken and guniea fowl.
I have suspected that they would go after small living creatures, but have never witnessed it. I am assuming they would only if they were hungry. They fly over my chickens, and look at them but keep going, but I also have a flock of guinea fowl with my chickens, which may be a deterrent.
It was up in a tree, and he parked his ATV under it, and was just getting off of it when it let it fly! Vultures are new to us, been here only a few years, we live in Eastern Ontario, and they are only here in the warm months. We like them here, as the kept the carcasses of the roads, and any...
Yes. I believe it is. I had one really mean rooster, to me, and I did manager to train the other roosters to chase him from me. I would call Roosters, and they would all come running and chase him out. I also had a hen that would come and sit on me, on command. She was a special girl and very...