As well there have been wildlife around a lot lately, crows in the turkey coop, ravens in the duck and goose coop, raccoons patrolling out side the chickens and rabbit/hares around the entire lawn.
This Is one of the Silver Gray Dorkings.
Here is the Black Jersey Giant.
This morning as I fed my chicks of seven weeks, who were vaccinated last Tuesday, some of the dorkings had developed something with their eye. It was slightly crusty and it was making the birds eye close a little bit, but at first I waved it off as the leghorns bothering them. But then I saw it...
I came home today to find the light burnt out in my incubator and the temperature at 75 Fahrenheit/25 Celsius.
My worry is that this has killed anything growing within the eggs (turkey, duck, and chicken) as it couldve been out since 830 this morning or as late as 12-2
(Found, and light replaced...
I purchased four new goslings and ducklings to go with the already 19 ducklings. But the 4 goslings are now bullying all the ducklings. They're pecking at their feathers and legs and I don't know if its normal or terrible. These are my first goslings and I did not expect this to happen. Will I...
Windsor, Brook and Victor are my Chantecler Chickens.
When I went to Sea Cadet Summer Training Center HMCS Acadia, every year I was in a different Division (group) they were Windsor, Corner Brook and Victoria. So I named these three after those divisions. And during this year in Victoria, we won...
Mostly planning on just mixing the manure and wood shavings with a bit of warm water and before throwing it on the garden putting it through again with some kitchen compost...and I was gonna set it up else where than the coop, set up like a juicer with a funnel going in and throwing it right...
I just got a garburator by chance.
I thought...hmm... Maybe i can put this in the coop to help turn manure into fertilizer/compost for the garden!
any thoughts/ideas on this?