I have a hen that has a scab on the side of her foot but not on the bottom, its swollen but not to bad but she keeps raising it like a flamingo and wants to stand on it but keep bringing it back up. She just sits there like she is laying. I've read that bumble foot has a scab on the pad and...
Hi read all the posts about sparrows. We just redid our run and thought we had it perfect but we still have sparrow problems and they will only come out when we open the door. They are horrible!!
Any more ideas out there? I thought about hanging CDs around the run, I remember my grandmother...
my son made a trough self waterer and has finally figured it out and by himself and it took him a while to figure out where it finally is automatic now the problem:
he went to check and make sure everything was still working, he found larvae in it. I've gone though other posts and some say to...
Ok husband brought home a 50 gal barrel and my son wants to make a gravity water for the chickens, it will flow into a trough he made out of PVC pipe. Ok so we are super dummies here and we can't figure out why it won't stop over flowing. He has tried different hoses, pvc pipes and fittings, he...
We have 3 laying hens (around 7mth old)that are fed laying feed and we have 4 pullets (about 9wks old) on starter/grower feed, right now they are separated by a fence but can see each other and have 3 little doors cut out in the fence big enough for the pullets but to small for the hens, so the...
Finished converting the bunny hutch our friend gave us and added a run
My son had a good time building it as a Spring Break project
We finished Thurs. and got 4 hens on Friday
Hi
We will are new to chicken raising, I had a few growing up not thats been a long time about 20yrs.We are no going the chick route even though we would love to but we really have no room to raise them in a brooder so we are going to get 5mth olds we are only getting four to start off.
My son...