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  1. Yonaton

    Rooster Going After My 11 Year Old - Advice?

    Roosters are a dime a dozen, almost literally. Put it in the freezer and get another rooster (if you want/need one) before one of those silly attempts at trying to calm an animal that's born for fighting and protecting its flock fails and someone gets more than just a little scratch on the leg.
  2. Yonaton

    sick baby chicks

    Do they have enough room to get out of the heat if they want to or is the heat spread throughout the whole container you have them in? Heat kills. They only need it in one area of the container they're in not the whole thing.
  3. Yonaton

    can i put guinea hens and chickens together?

    They will eventually start bullying the chickens...chasing them away from the feeders, etc. They're noisy for no good reason (*VERY* noisy...it'll drive you nuts), they do *NOT* keep the ticks down (I've yet to find a bird that will eat a tick like it's a food source), and will get no bigger...
  4. Yonaton

    Getting rid of an somewhat aggressive rooster.

    ...Clark county NV, you'd go to clarkcountynvfreecycle. Oh...I just looked and it's the Yahoo groups. You have to join the particular group that's your county (or whatever you want I suppose). By the way, the freecycle thing is meant *only* for giving things away or trading. *NO SELLING* of...
  5. Yonaton

    Suggestions needed.

    ...is that kind of thinking. It doesn't matter if they're only there once a year, it's still their property and if they don't want what isn't theirs *on* their property, you should'nt be getting upset in *any* kind of way about it. It seems to me you've got plenty of property and are complaining...
  6. Yonaton

    From "20 yrs." thread re too-hot brooders: tell hatcheries?

    ...if they need too, is just sad and pathetic, IMO. The 'secret' is simply to have the room necessary for raising chicks and not have to jury-rig dumb things like aquariums or laundry baskets, etc. I don't know about any "gases", but the term 'heat kills' applies to *ALL* animals, not just humans.
  7. Yonaton

    feeding chicks

    Fred's Hens : ...layer feed should only be fed to layers. All my birds - roosters, hens, and chicks if the momma brings them around it or if I have to save pennies - have eaten 'layer feed'. None of my non-laying birds have ever been harmed by this feed. Ever (that means in 25 years no...
  8. Yonaton

    Two White Jersey Giant roosters, free...

    Please post items for sale or give away in auction format in the appropriate Buy Sell Trade forum. Thanks.
  9. Yonaton

    Mites - Always an ongoing battle?

    They will travel on the grass, wind, other animals, other birds, and your neighbors birds *are* the main culprit in your case, I'd bet money on it. As has been said, paint the coop. Dust the yard and the space/grass between your birds and the neighbors with sevin. Dust your birds again. Dust the...
  10. Yonaton

    Where do I get some Zip/Cable Ties and what size?

    ...against the use of zip-ties is...what if something happened to you tomorrow and you were either dead or in the hospital for two weeks plus? Would *anyone* be thinking of the animals other than to feed them as quickly as possible and get back to the hospital or whatever to be with you? Will...
  11. Yonaton

    What is best for a muddy pen?

    ...sand). What do you consider a "chicken yard"? Is it a 10'x10' fenced in area? Is it an whole acre? Was there a well established root system there *before* you put up a coop and run? Is it just a spot with 4 chickens and they've never been outside the coop and itty-bitty fenced in area and...
  12. Yonaton

    What is best for a muddy pen?

    ...only hay is that it smells better in the coop, the birds like to scratch through it more and can actually eat it if they want to, it often contains *grass* seeds and once it's spread out wherever one needs it spread, it *will* grow grass there. Even if you don't need grass growing, it...
  13. Yonaton

    Anyone ever put a automatic dishwasher in their barn/coop?

    ...about any other animals where you feel like draining the water to? Like all the wild one?) is just work that doesn't seem necessary. If it was *you* who would have to do all that extra work, how do you think you'd feel then? Got the spare change to pay for all the new electrical use? Seems...
  14. Yonaton

    Free ranging for first time

    Are your birds roosting in the coop? If they've been roosting for at least a week, then do like gryeyes said and let them out about an hour before dusk sets in and they'll go back to roost on their own. I wouldn't let them out though until I know they've been roosting for at least a week in the...
  15. Yonaton

    you know you want to post a comment. :)

    Depends what you're pumping the water from. If it's from a basement that may have cans of paints and other chemicals or possibly mouse/rat poison, etc...it doesn't sound like a good idea to pump that to the chickens. If it's a bare floor and no chemicals or poisons, sure you could, but that's...
  16. Yonaton

    What is best for a muddy pen?

    ...you don't have to buy anything. Get a cheap kind of hay at first, anything just to get something growing quickly (even sage will work in a pinch so *something* will grow fast), then once you have some grass growing maybe find some good hay that, if possible, has rye and bermuda (the rye will...
  17. Yonaton

    How cold is to cold?

    Think of it this way...the wild birds (sparrows, those nasty rats with wings called pigeons, and whatever indiginous birds are in your area etc) don't have anyone putting out heaters for them through the winters and they survive just fine. The chickens will do okay also.
  18. Yonaton

    Chick Problems. I Need Some Advice!

    It sounds like they might be trying to cool off and drinking themselves to death. How hot is it where you have the chicks? How much room have they got to move around and away from the heat source? What kind of feed and/or feeder?
  19. Yonaton

    Am I Asking for Trouble?

    And, it could only be squirrels up in that tree. They're noisy critters as in noisy by barking when they're PO'd and noisy by all the running around in dry leaves in trees and branches and such. Easy way to find out is put a 16 penny nail in the tree about head-height, cut off the head of the...
  20. Yonaton

    Roo feed?

    ...else (with no free range) to chicks. I'm only clarifying so that isn't the case. best wishes Erica Best go back and read what I wrote. They *all* get layer *except* for hatchery chicks. The OP wanted to know what to feed *roosters* and I feed mine only layer. Doesn't matter if they're...
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