i have a hen that is like a pet. we have had her since day 1 and she follows us everywhere. she is at the age of laying and we are getting an egg every couple of days. she is acting completely normal. no sluggishness or anything just completely normal. the thing that makes me nervous is that she...
Mink/Weasel: they kill just by a swift bite on the back of the neck, ive had issues with these things. i had an outside giant penned in are topped with netting for a bunch of pheasants i had. i couldnt figure out what was killing the birds, i would check everything at night, leave the outside...
thats what makes it odd. i had a guy from the board of animal health come out and blood test my flock so i could sell eggs NPIP tested and approved and he said i was right that all of my "hens" were hens and i only have one rooster... im stumped
i have a silkie and a white crested black polish that i got the first week of april. no egg. not one. not even a crow. id be much happier with an egg than a crow. but both have every characteristic of a hen, small combs, big "poofs" on top of their heads... please give me an idea of when i could...
its hard cuz the best dog ive ever had is Charlie, he is a Dachshund Corgi mix. he has the look of a corgi sized weiner dog, we call him a brat dog cuz he is around 20 pounds. he is the best bahaved dog ive ever had, he was so easy to train and he retains all of the training i have ever gave...
all i know of is the swap at the Mcleod County Fairgrounds on September 19th. as usual im guessing there will be the normal $3 fee at the door. there is usually quite the turn out, the whole building is usually filled with our feathery friends. and the parking lot usually hold some goats and...
i absolutely love standard sized cochins and i think they are just gorgeous. when i got my chicks this spring the feed store had everything but cochins, so i went without. then a woman i worked with said she would give me a young cochin hen... turns out it is a brahma (i still love the brahma)...
i got Bertha from a woman because she was getting beat up too much at her house. my birds are still fairly young and can handle a little reconsrtucting of their pecking order so i took her in. she keeps to herself but doesnt mind being picked up. ive had her for about 3 months now and have yet...
so i went to the local vet and got some corid. im gonna try that since its my last option. i tried vitamin packs and sugar water, now i will try this so hopefully this will work! hope with me!!!
i just went out and checked my chickies. they are moping around not doing much. i move the feeder into the direct light and put a couple chicks next to the feed and they just started devouring it. i checked a couple of their crops and they seemed to be just full of water. i dont get it. do they...
now that you mention it we have ordered from ideal before. but i can only think of this farmer guy that came in and wanted some reds specifically from ideal and didnt want to get the minimum order on his own... he ended up leaving the feed/chick area with close to a hundered chicks anyways
i work at runnings farm and fleet so i picked them up from work. we usually order from cackle and mcmurray. ive had chickens and ive factored out any changes from one brooder to another and still cant figure out whats going wrong. even checked for mites and parasites. gonna pick up a vitamin...
i have month old cornish cross dying. they get fresh food and water every day. heat lamp at night just in case it gets cold, otherwise they pant all day with the lamp on. hay for bedding. i dont get it. they just keep dying
i have 70 (or should i say i had 70) broiler chicks. they are about a month old. they are in a brooder that i used for my last batch. after my last 50 were butchered i cleaned every bit of poo and dirt and straw out of the brooder. i then let it air out for 2 days. i put a layer of shavings on...