Recent content by Zoey..

Not sure if this is predator related or not. Two nights ago I go out and a younger hen is dead, appears like she was slit down the stomach and opened up. An egg was laying inside of her broken. Tonight another young hen dead. Same, like she was opened up at the stomach.... anyone have something...

We are in between CR and Waterloo! Mine have been fine all these years, but we haven’t had -24 yet as the nightly temp

I’ve never heated my coop, ever. But the next week Iowa is expecting night temps to be -16 to -24. Anyone deal with this and add heat to their coops at night? Was thinking of doing a heat lamp later at night until early morning. The girls have been fine in 10 and below the past few weeks, but...

Is Corid fine to give all your flock? Can it be given to ducks and geese? How often should the flock be wormed? Thanks

I’ve seen lots of threads but just had a simple question. Ducklings are 3-4 weeks, live in the barn with a heatlamp. It’s 60 here, is it fine if they swim in the kiddy pool supervised and then go back to clean bedding with their heat lamp? Not worried about drowning as I’m always watching them...

Also, how often should they be dusted if I'm currently treating it?

Bug soother is ok for animals, so I've been spraying them with that and it seems to help. The gnats are bad absolutely everywhere. I did put up fly strips on the windows. Thanks for the mite advice. I don't see any but dusted them anyways just in case. I checked my older girls out... one has...

today I came home for lunch, collected my eggs, chickens were fine. Approx 6 hours later three of my youngest (6mos) were dead. Gnats are heavy now. I noticed some green tinted poop in the coop but they were out on fresh mowed grass 2 days ago. Hens didn't appear to have anything wrong but I...