I have asked a similar question in the past and will now be trying to see if it is feasible. Now I know why everyone says that you'll never get rich farming, because its true. You might be able to make a living if you are careful with costs and seek the best prices available. Marketing is key...
Had the exact same problem, you need to make sure the cat can't climb your fence and must be setup properly for an electric fence to work. I lost 15 to a bobcat until I set up my run like below. I used 6 ft deer netting, with many strands of wire. they can't climb the fence. bury some if the...
I lost 10 hens to a bobcat over a 3 month stretch. finally saw it attacking my free ranging birds while i was out there too. had to see it to believe it. i have foxes, raccoons and coyotes, but the bobcat was the most stealth quickest enough to sneak attack. fenced them in using 6 foot tall...
introduce them slowly over time, i have a coop built inside a coop, i put the newbies in the coop and let them get use to the older hens and roos. after a week i open the door and they learn to get along, plus the little chicks run faster than the chubby adults. sometimes i make the coop door...
I do not lock them up, but I also have many strands of electric fencing covering the run and coop in addition to other fencing. I have not lost one so far. before the electric fence they free ranged, after 10 lost hens I finally saw the predator, a bobcat was taking them. The fence run is 6...
I lost 10 hens to a bobcat, I was never sure what the predator was until I saw her with my own eyes. I was losing them in daylight, it grabbed a chicken even though I was 20 feet away. I have since built a coop and run with 6 ft bird netting with metal posts and electrified the fence with 4...
I think that the bantam breeds work best for adopting due too their size. the bigger chickens may accidently crush a baby chick. My two bantam cochins are awesome adopting moms. They took to them immediately and the Austrolorp took half a day longer. They are much happier now that they don't...
So here is an update on placing baby chicks with 3 broody hens after they had been broody for 3-4 weeks.
I placed 1 under 2 broodies at night and left the rest in the coop in a cardboard box with a brooder light and food/water. i let them chirp all night so that all 3 broodies would warm up...
my hens have been broody for 3 weeks has anyone had any problems or success? i have 8 chicks bought today and 3 broody hens. how do i do this sucessfully? please help.
Business has been so good that I had to get 7 more RIR hens, to keep up with demand. I had to turn away 2 previous customers today, because I won't have eggs available until next weekend. I have 40 laying hens and it's amazing. The secret is good advertising and providing an excellent...
my crazy cochin bantam hen is broody on the roost! and has been the last 2 weeks. she won't snap out of it. I even have fertile eggs for her, but she won't sit in a nest box. I'm tired of watching her go through this. best of luck with yours!
How do I get her to go broody in a nest box. She has all the signs of broody, puffy when sitting, cackles when off the roost, missing feathers on her belly areas.... pecks me when i try to push her off the roost..
The Question is how do I get her to go broody in a nest? I have eggs I can...
15 red stars, they were laying near 15 weeks. they do not take many days off. i get some jumbo sizes too after a few weeks. I'll be getting these more often.
The most beautiful Australorps that I have ever laid my eye's on flew the coop one last time.... She was model quality and she always hated it when I took her eggs or any other hens eggs. She was always the first to fly out my coop, but today she didn't come back. I think a bobcat took her...