Thanks, I know this fence will not stop much. It is basically just to keep them in an area during the day. At night they are locked up in a wood house with doubled up layers of hardware cloth over the windows. We do plan to make a more secure day pen though and also make it much bigger and give...
This is Sweet she is a Black Sexlink and this pic is called "Big and beautiful"
This is also a pic of Sweet and is called "Chicken in Charge"
This is Parmesan an EE and the pic is called "Still Growing"
This is a pic of Sweet when she was still a teenager it is called " The Best of the Breast"...
I hope she is just stressed cause of the new roommates or maybe the change of daylight starting, or the seasons are starting to change. She is my best egg layer, big huge brown eggs every day usually. She is my biggest chicken too. Big fat sassy lady :) I love her and hope she is okay, although...
Yes the scab is on the sole of her foot. It does not seem to bother her at all. She runs and acts like usual all besides the no egg part... She eats plenty, she chases the chicks away and then runs back to eat up some food. She always runs out when I bring treats like veggies and stuff. In other...
I have two 1 year old Black Sexlinks and two 5 month old pullets. I started letting the youngsters free range with the older ladies once they got bigger and I have been putting them in the coop at night with the older ladies. I separate them by putting the younger ones in a cat carrier so the...
also I am pretty sure I have one boy and one girl as she is staring to honk and quack while he is quiet and calm...he also is starting to get one curled feather on his tail
thanks for the info! I did read that article, how sad. I would be so heart broken...I do only have the two ducks...do you think that he could kill her all by himself with all of his loveing, am I going to have to keep the ducks separate too?!?!?! We have made the day run pen for the ducks to...
well for my older hens I dust the coop and put some in their usual dusting spots, but i did not know about the chick and ducklings and if I could use it in their areas, I was just doing it as a preventative measure.... just mostly in the ducklings and chicks night time house