Do chicken nipples on 5 gallon buckets attract rats? Going away for a week and would love to know how it went with nipples to give water to chickies and if and any rat problems.
Also, for the food dispenser where a metal rod is inserted in a 5 gallon bucket on the bottom so chickens can peck...
Yeah wondering if they will laying cause days are definitely getting shorter and its been getting colder. They are also done with molting. So i think their winter feathers are good. Hopefully soon.
So my 24 week old cherry eggers still not laying. I got 4 and all are not in the mood i guess. Also our temperature has been getting colder this week in the 30s, don't know if that's effecting them. They are cherry eggers and got them from a hatchery. They have been healthy all this time. They...
I love my Eglu! I reinforced with metal mesh all over....looks like alcatraz but I've read painting the steel mesh with black paint I will be able to see in....want to do that before winter.....also I put oven knob protectors on Eglu knobs in case for bears or racoons...so far I've had it almost...
I wish they could but neighbors close by so they have to stay in one area. Yeah, they perfer to stay in their pen at times. Maybe and smaller. They feel secure there so I think they are happy.
Thank you for sharing! I still need to put DE in their feed for worms. I do put garlic in their water once almost every once a week. They say good for worms too. My girls a few weeks too young for eggs. I'm predicting end of September or beginning of October. I have been using a hose to clean...
see this on coop door. Found 1 or 2 crawling on door of coop. Doesnt look like a mite since not round or red, a flea since it doesn't jump or lice since not really too light brown. Have checkef chickens and see nothing on them. It's tiny. Doesn't pop out blood either.
I see them on coop door sometimes dropping tray. Inside of coop looks dry. We do have 50% humidity. Can silverfish be tiny? I saw 1 this morning again.
so I've seen like 1 or 2 of these very tiny long insects on coop door....twice found 1 or 2 on poo tray of chickens....it's body is long and the color like a light gray color, kinda see through....i squish them and no blood pops out ever and they don't jump....dunno if they coming from grass...