Hi, I have 7 (2yr old) hens & 2 (4mth) mallards. I just found a roundworm (I think) in one (chook) hens droppings. I just finished giving all chooks valbazen.
I have a 10x10 deck attatched to my house. It is 2' high, and under is red clay dirt, dark, moist and never sees sunlight. It gets...
I am SO excited to share my very first egg!! My Golden Comet "bobby" only 5 mths old...I love it! Poor girl she was so tired afterward. I never even got the laying feed!! Omgosh I should probably run out and get some! And that calcium stuff.... I was not expecting this so soon...
I figured they may have been Easter chicks....but anyway, one is beautiful and healthy(ish) and one has spraddle leg. I will love and care for them as long as they aren't Roos....then I will find them a happy home...or a happy dinner for someone.
I was having a horrible day and I think God has...
My neighbor knocked on the door...with two tiny chooks that had been thrown out in a cardboard box on a back road :-( soaking wet and starving, dehydrated. What I don't know/see is easy to forget about. But soaking starving chicks....no way. I set them up with heat lamp in a small coup...what...
It's going to rain all week in greenville! Garden will love it...but my chooks are not! Do your chickens like the rain? I find mine hiding under the deck or dashing back to the coop...poor little birds.
I crave that humongous garden!! I made two small raised beds....then called my realtor to be on the hunt for a house on a bigger lot!! BTW, did you bring in topsoil? My soil is all clay. I'm new to clay soil!