This Sunday I am going to build some diy wire quail cages. I am thinking a 2'x2' cages but how tall sould I make it I was thinking about 10" tall does that sound good to you or not. I was going to put 4 quail (1 male-3 female) in each cage and make 4 cages. If you diyers out there could changes...
This was my first time incubating eggs i started with 24 egg and hatched out 18 chicks here are some pics of the hatch,chicks in brooder and brooder.
in brooder
and my brooder
I am in Maryland and one of my hens is sitting on some eggs do you all think it is to late in the season to let her keep them . I am new to this whole chicken thing and things seem to be going good.I put 24 mixed eggs in my incubator and i have 18 chicks(will be 2 weeks on 10/28) in the...
i have 3 buff orbingtons that are 10 weeks old. Would it be ok to move them out to my coop with the other chickens and take a way the chick feed and let them eat the feed that the other chickens eat. if not how old sould they be before the move out of the house and in to the coop with the other...
I am new too chickens and this bird was in a flock i saved but i do not know if it is a hen or rooster i have another 1 just like it with smaller comb and wattle
thanks mike
i have this hen and was tould that it was a brown leghorn hen but i just am not sure in the pics you can see she has feathers on her legs and there are feathers on top of the head and she is a small bird. I have 2 other hens that look just like her
thanks mike
this is the first coop and run i gave ever builted.
coop is 8' long by 3' wide and 4' tall with a 1' drop from front to back with 6 nest boxs in the back. the run is 8' by 8' and 6' tall plus the space under the coop that they can go under. The hole thing cost me about $100.00 to make as i got...
I just got my first flock of chickens (a rescue flock of 18 chickens). A guy i work with his wife had the chickens in there backyard of a townhome and was told that they had to go by the county. So in a weekend i built the coop and run(my wife painted it not me) and picked them up. I am not sure...