Isnt it exiting !!!! ALMOST like Christmas morning...We hatched for the first time in 8 yrs (been out a while) last Friday...It was like Christmas eve when I saw all those little pips Thursday night...
Does anybody ever leave a low hanging light on just so that they can watch the chickens grab for bugs ?
Talk about funny...We watched and laughed for a good 30 minutes ...one would catch a moth and the all wanted to get the moth..my lil hens was chasing down the rooster taking his bugs and he...
Does anybody ever leave a low hanging light on just so that they can watch the chickens grab for bugs ?
Talk about funny...We watched and laughed for a good 30 minutes ...one would catch a moth and the all wanted to get the moth..my lil hens was chasing down the rooster taking his bugs and he...
Hey that was a great post on classifying eggs !!!! I LEARN HERE EVERYDAY....Thanx ...
The article refers here and there to vegatarian diet...
I guess my question would be ...How can you possibly put a chicken on a vegataruian diet when you know they eat all kinds of bugs arent bugs considered...
Have you thought of a Great Pyranees...Ive had 2 friends use these type dogs and they worked out great for them...The Great Pyranees can also stay out during the harshest winters due to thier thick woolish type coats..and the ones Ive seen are very good around children...Some of the heeler dogs...
Personally for just a few 2 or 3 chickens I didnt think it was to small of a coop...
First I would make sure that your chickens can get to the roost with out a lot of knocking around and pushing each other off...
Second when chickens dont roost where I want them to try simply placing them on...
Here at the SHACK we like to use pine straw and hay.....That seems to form to our hens body a lot better helps her keep those eggs tucked under her body...but all those things work grass clippins , hay and pine shavings....
Henry'schickens :
I give my eggs away to my neighbors and they give me , blackberries, fresh garden goodies (they know I love to can), their canned goods, fix a tire and mount it for me, baked goods, electrical work etc. etc. I love my neighbors!!
Thats just the way it ought to be...
We get the scrap bucket from Mc Donalds 5 days a week ...It has a lot of patties and sausage and scrambled eggs meat type stuff...I also get left over salads when they expire ...I mix this all in with a 15 % layer and man I get eggs like crazy...nice solid eggs never have a problem with things...