Hi Jack...
I hope it is okay to post this here in the "Utah!" thread. If not I will take the verbal spanking.
I seemed to have failed in my choices at the pullet tank and now have two cockerels I need to be rid of.
They are approximately 2 month old bantams and very handsome lads...
It could be a matter of them getting dirty and/or getting hard-water deposition around the sealing surface.
I have noticed that the nipples that are not used as much by my chickens are the ones that tend to leak. I believe it is due to them getting build-up deposited on them while not being...
All the chickens at and near our house in Thailand eat cooked and uncooked rice , and I have never seen any explode or bloat.
If the rice people feed it to their birds I would venture to say that it is safe. LOS
Most of those "coops" look nothing like the picture when a person has finished putting it together.
The wood that is used is extremely thin and prone to warping.
As an FYI they are typically mass produced in China, and as such are that quality level.
I bought a similar model... don't make the...
I am interested to know that as well - ducks out of the coop.
My coop was nice and perfect size for my chickens.... until I put the ducks out side.
The duck house is actually nicer than the chicken coop, but I guess the "water chickens" want to stay with the other chickens. The only way I...
Cut his hair so he has less strength... oh forgot it's a chicken... no hair....
Sounds like he is acting like a male chicken (or a male anycreature for that matter).
It also sounds like you have begun his learning of who IS the Big Boss.
I have both soda bottle waterer's and the PVC with reservoir. For some reason the chickens only use the PVC waterer.
I am not sure why. It could be that the soda bottle is recycled, and the PVC waterer was all new materials - filthy HiSo chickens.