Hi, i have a speckeld sussex approx. 8 months old. She has always been a little weird, always by herself. Then a couple of weeks ago when all of our chickens were free ranging. The speckled sussex out of nowhere grabbed one of our buff silkies with her beak and killed it my snapping its neck. We...
Oh..pew. My CR does not have all those black tail feathers yet and i thought she was a male for a sec...she is 14 weeks old and my Columbian Roch thread proved her to be a pullet.
Really? Purina is the one of the biggest poultry feed companies out there. Here a link to Purina Mills website- http://poultry.purinamills.com/default.aspx. They have a ZIP code deal where you can find the Purina dealer nearest you. Here a 5lb Bag of Flock Raiser on...
Hi , I live in western Washington and I have four 10 week old silkies that have been out in the chicken coop A few weeks now and have half of their run is covered and the other half isn't. When it rains the silkies don't seem to get that they have some cover. They just do their own thing and...
I bought a rabbit feeder today thinking it was a cool chicken feeder it looks like this hut mine does not have a mesh bottoms it's metal all the way around. What do you think about using these for poultry?
I use this for watering my 7 pullets. I fill it up in the morning and at night it seems to be 3/4 gone. Perfect for small flocks and if put on a couple of bricks or something it stays clean all day. It works better than the $30 nipple water that I have. They only use this one now, for $28...
I try not to play favorites but...Well my Columbian Rock who I taught to jump on my lap does get her pick of the treats first. She is really pretty and the top of the pecking order. Buts she's kinda a bully so sometimes I'll give my buff orpington her picks first.
So a feed store I went to had three chickens in a large old chicken coop. They used them for hatching chicks. There nestboxes where outside in the chicken run though, not inside the coop. Is putting some nestboxes outside In the run a good idea? I put two outside In the run with my 13 week old...