when i can i wait for the birds to come in the roost,at night. i talk to them and pet them as they come in, only 2 or 3 out of 26 don't really like it.an i touch them anyway. The 16 older birds i can alll hand feed but they won't let me pick them up, the 10 younger i can touch an pick up easyly...
we were having eggs sucked , usaully didn't find a shell, i evenually ran into a large water mocasin in the coop.i have been spraying tea tree oil under coop and around outside of run , as long as i keep oil sprayed snakes seem to stay away, no broke eggs anymore.
This year i am growing tomatoes,peppers,onions,carrots,beets,purple tomatillo, okra ,lettuce,tatsoi,bak-choy, potatoes, eggplant, celery,summer squash, artichoke, asparagus,soybeans,lima beans bush beans. Rosemary,basil, sage, pinapple sage,parsley, oregano, lemon thyme...
when my 2 hens combs turned pale ,was because other chickens were chasing them away from water and food, we had to hand feed those two till i expanded the coop , after they had more room they quit picking on those two
while i was building an addition to the coop for the new chickens my rooster started attacking me.he don't tolorate power tools being used in or around his coop. he lost all fear of the chicken stick and would attack me anyway. so i started acting like i had wings, and flapping them at him , an...
What are you feeding them?when i gave mine 22% layer crumbles i had the same problem. After i switched back to the 16% protien layer crumbles the problem went away.