Recent content by southernbelle54

someone from back yard chickens posted not to long along go what chickens can and can not eat moldly bread was one of them that they can not eat. here is what I give my girls at night before I put them in the coop for the night I take three slices of bread cut them into squares put them in the...

no he helps me round the girls up and get them in the coop for the night. if he sees momma come out the back with a little I use for their treats like veggies he sounds off and gets everyone to the gate so they get some but he wont share the peas he loves those. im thinking he was raised with...

I I don't know if you can see my louie lou but he is laying down under the nesting box his favorite place to lay down

thank you only ducks my pekin is more playful than anything and when its time to go into the hutch for the night he rounds everyone up including my two roosters and scoots them in the hutch and waits for their little door to be shut before bedding down at night silly lil duck :)

hey everyone when I first got my little ones they were all grown and there were 3 females and one male but now I am down to one male and one female when would it be a good time to get more girls and if I was to get another male would my male fight with the new one this is kinda all new to me I...

you will be happy to know that alli and henretta both are laying again but alli misses Aflac really bad cause she goes off by herself she still limps but then my son noticed that she looks like she is bulllegged

neither of the girls are egg bound thank god but their vet cant find anything wrong with ally she is the one that is still doing the limping im starting think its because of losing Aflac a few months a go and that is why she is acting this way henretta is doing fine but still not laying any eggs...

yes they are both acting the same way as far as walking a few feet then stopping and laying down but only one is limping and yes they are both eating and drinking water and swimming in the pool when they want to but other wise the girls act like they are nesting or something and no the so called...

yes they are getting a calcium supplement I will give the tub another try and the vet didn't find any eggs but then I think the vet that was recommended is a quack anyway mine was a vacation and the girls have a appointment the second of april for their yearly check up an vac but thank you for...

no unfortunately the girls aren't hiding the eggs they will walk a couple feet then stop and lay down then repeat the process I really don't know what think and one of the girls is limping now

i have three pekin ducks I used to have four but one past away I have two females and one male. I do have a question every morning I would find one to three eggs from my little girls for the longest time but now they have all the sudden stopped laying eggs is this normal they get their feed in...

im with you I love having electric to my coop and I do the same with the different colored cords :)

I don't know if this will help you or not but you can try this. this is what we have in our coop here in Montana when we have below zero weather in the winter which stats around October we put straw in the nesting boxes, a little on the floor just to keep their little toes warm a heat lamp in...

they do love a mineral block to peck at my girls play queen on the block sort of speaking but on cold days and when the get bored they peck at it. also someone posted on here a while back I don't know who it was that on extremely cold days heat up some oatmeal and feed it to them my girls like...

depending on the age of your chickens I give mine the dumor chicken scratch with layena crumbles mixed with grit in the blue and gold bag at tractor supply and once a month I give them a dose of packets of electrolytes I get all of at tractor supply and a i get them a bail of straw for their...