Hi everyone. I wanted to relate a recent unfortunate experience we had with a food supplement called Flock Block. Flock Block is a compressed block of seeds, corn, molasses, etc. (kind of like a suet cake) that you can put in your pen to give your birds something to scratch around, peck at, and...
I was wondering if anyone's birds have ever eaten purple poke salet berries and then the resulting poops made you think you had an outbreak of coccidiosis? We have several pokeweed plants that grew up from the run and through the chicken wire, and yesterday I blew some leaves off the chicken...
We have a friend who has Black Australorp hens, and she wants two roosters for mating. We have two silver polish roosters that we need to get rid of, also two Auracanas. However, it seems like I've read that sometimes regular breeds won't mate with cresteds...anyone know this to be true?
We have our nesting boxes on one wall in the back of the coop, little ladder going up to it. On another wall, I made these great roosts for them, slanted out from the wall, bottom rung about 2 feet off the ground, each succeeding one a foot or so higher. Well, the birdies never sleep on their...
My first post! I wanted to tell EVERYONE who posts here what a big help y'all have been as we have raised our 21 babies....they are 8 weeks old now and happy, healthy, and hilarious. We got so many ideas and suggestions and "things to look out for" and stuff like that just by reading answers to...