Blame it on chicken math, keep 5 or 6 not too much trouble, get over 25 things begin to pile up, How then to reduce back? Really hard, wow can’t let her go been here too long, hmmm, can’t let her go, good egg layer, and so it goes. 😂
Went to HD bought a roll of blue 1/2” poly and appropriate fittings, ran it from existing hose bibb, exposed along fence line about 50 yds down to the coop, installed a hose bibb there. Only thing negative is have to watch the weather, drain every time it freezes. With the trees and terrain no...
Tractor supply cheap and easy just install around your roost and run. I have two wires, one about 4” off of the ground and one at about a foot, even the squirrels stay away. Hardest thing about the install is getting electricity out to your run and driving the ground rod.
Moved them 600 miles in the dead of winter from Florida to N C in one of those crappy little manufactured coops on a trailer, shot right past the ag station 😂 everyone made it great.
Interesting thread, makes me want to go back to TSC where they had comets and I have two mothers with new chicks, see if it works.Of course need more chickens like I need a hole in the head.
If you really want to put a stop to all of it, the electric fence works, I have two wires up around my coop and run, one wire about 4” off of the ground the other at about a foot. I know it is a pain to get electricity to your pen but it will let you sleep better at night. Get everything you...
If you let new chicks mix with flock, what do they eat?
No way to keep other hens from starter food?
Change feed to “All Flock” put calcium on the side?
Leave chicks in the brooder with mother?
Brooder about 2’ off of the ground with ladder entrance.
Be the first time hatching chicks with...