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For three hours you don't really need to feed or water him. He should be fine. As long as it doesn't make a mess in your vehicle the wet mash won't hurt anything. He might eat some. If you wish, you could stop halfway and see if he will drink water. But I'd empty the water before you...

In common terminology, a packrat. Sounds like you want to live trap them so you can relocate them. I don't know how far you would have to relocate them to stop them from coming back. With squirrels is can be about 7 miles. Can you contact a wildlife relocation near you and see about...

If it has been three weeks then it might be a good idea to check her vent for Aart's butt check. That should be long enough for the vent to dry up. My guess is that she is hiding a nest on you somewhere, probably in the coop or run since they don't free range every day. They can be really...

Instead of a roller I used a thin flat piece of wood balanced so that the wood fell into the bucket when the mouse walked out too far to get the peanut butter. Think of a flat surface that the mice could get to, a 2x4 on the inside of the shed wall they were using as a path. Set the bucket...

This is a version of an Adirondack mouse trap. It is an old idea. You put something on top of a bucket so the mouse falls in. You put enough water in it that the mouse cannot reach the bottom and get leverage to jump out so it drowns. You put bait to attract the mouse, peanut butter is...

Thanks, I've heard of Jenks Hatchery but don't know any real details about them. I can't figure out what them fully feathering out has to do with their immune system. I am not a poultry professional. I give mine access to dirt shorty after hatch and have never seen any problems from that...

I could not find "Red Stars" on the Cackle Hatchery site. I was trying to get an idea of what type of Red Stars they are. Red Star is a marketing name, not a breed name. They should be red sex link hens but they may be commercial egg laying hybrids or they may be crosses between two standard...

I raise my flock for meat, among other reasons. I butcher a few chickens at a time many different times all through the year. I always cut open some intestines to look for roundworms or tapeworms. I've never found any so I have never wormed the flock. If I did find some I would worm them and...

They will do what they want to do. With no adults around I've had chicks start sleeping on the roosts as young as 5 weeks. I've had some wait until 14 weeks or after. Most of mine seem to start sleeping on the roosts at night around 10 to 12 weeks of age but that can vary. Some of the timing...

If you don't mind, which hatchery said that? I don't know if they had anything specific in mind or if it is just a general comment. I like to read these things in context if I can. Their immune system will stay weak until they work on strengthening it. If they are talking about Coccidiosis...

This is exactly what many of us would suggest. Typically a week is enough to train them to go in there at night. But be out there at bedtime to make sure they make it back inside. Sometimes that week may not be enough. Sometimes they get confused and need help. It somewhat depends on what...

Sometimes hens work together great at co-parenting. They incubate and hatch the eggs together and raise them together. There are several threads on this forum showing that. Sometimes it does not work. One time I had two broody hens fight over a nest of eggs when the eggs starting chirping...

I mark the eggs with a Sharpie so I know which belong. I check under the hen every day after the others have laid and remove any that don't belong. They can still be used as long as you remove them every day.

Even considering that is her first egg, that is really weird. It isn't unusual for pullets to lay weird eggs when they first start. Egg laying is a pretty complicated process, a lot of things have to go right to get a perfect egg. To me, the surprise is that so many pullets get it right the...

Any of those can work. To me it is very much a personal preference. It has to be your decision but I think you are asking what to consider. How few chicks can you get? How many do you want? How will you manage if you wind up with a boy or two? If you are buying from a hatchery online...

I almost never see pasty butt in my outdoor 3' x 6' brooder using a heat lamp. I heat one end and the far side can really cool off. I hatch most of mine, very few are shipped. Best I can remember the few pasty butt issues are with shipped chicks but I'm not sure I've never had an issue with...

My story in this is that the first time I mowed the grass next to the coop they panicked and hid in the coop. By third time I mowed the grass they realized I was throwing bits of grass in the run through the fence so they came running when they heard the lawn mower.

The magic word there is mixes. Once you start crossing mixes you can get some pretty strange results. Anything I could say would be a guess but my guess is that they are second generation mixes. It will be interesting to see how they feather out.

Where did you get them? What breeds or chickens are the parents if they did not come from a hatchery?

The important part of that is that the chicks do not need the amount of calcium in Layer until they are laying. Some studies have shown that feeding chicks or roosters excess calcium can be hard on them. The way any of us get around that when we have laying chickens in the flock that need that...