I have recently gotten new tennants in my coop, RATS. How do I get rid of them.I don't think I should use poisen because of my girls but how else am I suppost to get rid of them. Help Please!!!!
Do you use freeze dried or live mealworms?
I am trying to see what people perfer and what is best for my girls. And where do people get their worms from?
Also, how much chicken scratch can 10 full grown hens have? Thanks!
I got 10 RIRs 2 1/2 weeks ago they are all 10 month old. One hen layed 5 days ago and has layed everyday since the but no one else has layed yet. Is this normal? When should I be expecting everyone else to lay? I am getting very ancy. I would liek to get more than 1 egg a day from 10 hens.
Can DE cause a chicken to cough? Last night one of my hens were coughing every couple minutes. This morning she is not coughing at all. I spent about 10 minutes with her an she coughed once. Yesterday I put DE down in the coop and layed some scratch down for them. Later in the day when I went to...
I just move my hens to a new home about a week and half ago. Some are pooping fine and 3 out of 10 have diahrea like poop. Is it normal for their poop to look like diahrea. I had asked this question on another post but then realized I had put it in the wrong place. WARNING: GROSS PICTURE
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A week and a half ago I got 10 RIR's they are all 9-11 months but none have layed yet. I am wondering if anyone has any idea about when they will lay. They aren't even interasted in the nesting boxes. Is that normal? Also one of the birds poop looks like diahrea. Is that normal after a move...
I just got 10 RIRs on Monday the 12th and none have layed an egg yet. I think three are molting and all the rest look like they would be in good laying conditions. I am feeding them oyster shells, layer feed and vitamins and electrolytes. They are all 9 to 11 months old. Do they just need to be...
One of my rhode island red combs has lost it's color and is flopping over. I just got her 4 days ago, she came like that. 4 out 10 of my hens I got a couple days ago comb have lost their color but they aren't flopping over. I thought maybe the color lost was do to the fact that they were molting...
I have 10 RIRs I got 2 days ago. My coop is 11'x5 1/2' and I have three window, all about 2'x2'. But it still seems a little dim because one of the windows is facing the north and the other 2 are facing the west. But the west ones have a big bush 5 feet infront of them so it kind of blocks the...