Hi Hate to ask, but I must. Won't be able to watch my 5 chickens for 18 days in December. Can anyone chickenSit till I return? My chickens are my pets.
2 White Leghorns, 3 NH reds. Very friendly chickens 3 years old.
Hi All, I built an A frame tractor coop about 6 ft high, 8 ft long. It works well, but trouble is that it is not mobile at all. It is just too heavy to pull/push with 2 people! So I was thinking
of cutting it into 2 pieces to make it movable, so that I could drag it around as originally...
What do I do if green area continues spreads?
How can you tell if it is gangrene? There is no smell yet...
My year old bantam leghorn escaped from a fox 3 days ago. I've been putting antibiotic ointment on it. Yesterday was able to examine it better and found greenish-bluish on abdomen...
How do you hold a chicken to examine under her wing and abdomen?
Our hen was injured by a fox. She has a large wound under her wing and abdomen area. I've been putting antibiotic as best as I can on the areas, But I would like to do a better cleaning and application now that this is the...
Ahhh, The adventures that chickens bring to us, humans.
Our 6 chickens sleep in my barely-mobile-tractor coop. Last night, with the nip in the air, I decided to try out the heating lamp (that I used when they were chicks). A few hours later, in the reddish glow, I see that one of the...
I am oh-too-slowly building my run, well, the chickens' run. Everyone's coops and runs look fabulous!
I'm starting on the run now. Do corner posts really have to be set in the ground, and below the frost level? Any other way to make them sturdy without digging that far down? So here's...
Hi All
So happy to have found Backyardchickens! We've got 6 young 'uns, that have grown too fast! They were chicks for 3 days, it seems. At 7 weeks old, I still have yet to build them something. They are enjoying the garage and bit of the backyard bushes.
I've been looking at so many of the...