I have a 8.5 month old barnevelder hen. When I let her out this am she went right for the water bowl and drank tons of water. I could hear a gurgle coming from her loudly like I get whe I drink too much water to fast. she would walk away, bend over to peck at food and water would dribble out...
Nautical buoys post was ummm...harsh
Seriously its your choice. A well insulated coop will work as well and on sunnier days you can sprinkle scratch for them. I live in maine and in an insulated coop the water doesn't farely crust over at night. Plenty of bedding and if it is REALLY cold a...
WOW there are some frellin' ugly coops! i think we need to set up a fund for some of these ppl or mabe award the ugliest with a home depot card....keep the pics coming i love it, it makes me giggle.....and btw mine is ugleeee too..hehe
you can loose upto 25% If you have extras you could post them on here to find a home, especially if you order pullets. PPL are always looking for good egg layers on here, even on craigslist
My sex links are dahlings :-)
yeah, but the sex links are cuties. Mine are the most friendly little babes. One (dot) is all black with white dots in the corner of her eyes and a randon white wing feather. Dash is black with reddish chest and zip is black with a bit of red, but mostly black.
I HUGZ them everyday. i tought...
I used Duramycin on my entire flock and put the sick one in a seperate 'hospital' brooder. The sick one died but the rest recovered
What i was told was that once you see the blood it is too late to prevent cocci, now you are just trying to keep 'em healthy enough to survive, and if they do...