Recent content by suzeqf

i grew up on a farm so I knew most of the calves that I help bottle feed would become food and I was ok with it, When I have to cull a chick or a egg layer my daughter has to bury them because they have been "pets" but if have to cull a rooster depending on his age determines where he ends up...

My floor is just pressure treated plywood with shavings on top and when i clean it out i usually don't have anything on the floor and if i do i just use a paint scraper and it comes right off

I have the shed type it's 8x20 and i wish it was bigger it has a small loft that i was going to use as storage but the peeps decided they like to roost on the rafters i can walk into it and clean it easily and i store all my chicken "stuff" and feed in the coop i also small section that i...

When I brood my chicks I use a big cardboard box with a lamp at one end and to regulate the heat i move the lamp up, when the chicks are under a week old i usually keep my brooder around 95 and make sure i have a cool spot and 2nd week i'll move it up a bit and i usually watch the chicks to...

Does anyone know if chickens are legal in Montazuma Iowa I can't find anything online except for them being legal in Iowa City

i agree its a nice modern coop if i was going to use the design i put a row of windows all the way around the coop it will add more light but still keep the look

I haven't had it happen to a silkie but i lost my polish due to seizures she started having them when she was young at first she would just lower her wings and act like she was really hot and as she got older she would flop around violently(lets just say she was thrashing around like a chicken...

I'll join too, Truffle my cochin hen has been broody all summer and hasn't had a live chick yet, She went broody when we had the heat wave and I think the heat did the eggs in nothing developed past 8 days. She then starting sitting on a EE/Amerucana blue egg and a brown mix egg and she...

My ramp is a barn wood plank that i've wrapped with vet wrap and they can get a nice grip on it and i also have it on their roost poles and when it gets nasty i just un wrap it and replace it.

My lav orp turned mean, I tried to rehome home thinking he just needed his own girls but after he tried to spur my daughter and spurred me so hard i almost fell i t knew it was time for action so he met the business end of my stick, at first i thought i had just winded him good and he went to...

My flock roo is a one year old Splash Ameraucana and he's a sweet boy and I also have a one year old cochin roo who's a sweety but likes to sneak attack sometimes but he's all bluff. I also have several banty roo's and they are sweet little boys. I had 2 Lav Orp roo's one was a nightmare he was...

My advice is to have you phone or a video camera with you when you are in the garden and tape him standing there insulting you and then tell him if he doesn't stop you are going to to take your videos to the sheriff department and file a harrassement complaint against him. People who move from...

My sultan Itsy caught one yesterday and ate it and she's around 6 weeks old but she's always liked catching bugs but some of my older ones don't seem to have any interest in bugs I guess it just depends on the bird