wow after -27's winter weather the geese n chickens are happy 40's n 50's we put water in the pool the geese went nut's.. and there clean now.. they were getting dirty.. we have no snow in North Dakota..
i have 5 chickens, started with ten but neibors cat got one owl got two and one was when she was closing up coop the owl nabbed one and scared the crap out of her. but did kill the chicken. dont know what happened to others
anyway i have never had sex links before only heritage and they...
evry morning my 2 embdens just chase the 5 chickens around for 3-4 minutes. we have an area that the chickens can go under a fenced in area, but they have to get there.. i feed them in there and the geese get so vocal if ya do them first. it is kinda funny when they spread there wings and run...
do i have the only geese scared of water?? only had geese 4 times but they always went in the kiddie pool we have. its about 6' across . but they will not go in. i always got a kick watching the other ones , they can do fast laps while going under n out and repeat. we did put one in and she...
I have had chickens on and off for yrs... heck been around them and butchering since farm in '60's first I can remember....
this is first time with this few chickens and no roosters. in march I got my chickens couple silver laced dot's, a barred rock, black australop, and a either red sex...
i have 3 white turkeys that just past few days are getting this teal or bluish green tings to the ens of the feather just above the tail....what causes this?? they are just about two weeks old... and feed them grass as they are with 3 goslings and they seem to like it tlidke the geese also and...
well finally 4 ...I have 7 little chicks from Saturday n sunday...there were 4 that didn't make it...but we had below freezing last two nites... so 7 live is good....still have about 6 eggs not hatched and I don't think they are gonna...its so different in the attitudes of chicks with...
I have had chickens lots of years..i never let one or had one go broody. now I have two hens sitting and I didn't write down date and cant remember when they started.. I think more than two weeks... well they sit in the cornor right beside each other..i don't know how many there each sitting on...
it seems that most starting out with chickens do the normal and feed 16% protein after there old enough to lay...many years ago i did that to but quickly learned that 20% gave me more eggs, especially in fall and winter.as in summer they have more thatn 5 thousand sq ft to get bugs and they fly...
its nice to have the peice back in the flock after butchering the roos...i have 14 hens and now 3 roos after butchering 7 roos...at about 16 weeks old.. not bad size nice leg thigh combos and breast ... i remember now why i always cut up the heritage style..the cavity to get to the innards is so...
my chicken batch this year is the most mature after 10 weeks i have ever had...roosters crowing started at 10 weeks{only few of them} and roosters mating hens and the whole group are the biggest ones ive had at this age...the only thing i really did different is start on game bird 28% feed after...
i hae lost 3 favoruoles .. this weekend i seen two great horned owls watching over the yard...the female is at least two feet high and her belly looks like it has been feed very good.. the male is about two to three inches shorter..my chickens are only a few days over 10 weeks old..they used to...
lst two days one of my two Shiba Inu's, Yoshi will not leave the chickens alone...not hurting them but wanting to protect them...yesterday when he and I were in the fence fedding ect..he barked at something in the tall weed field behind my property..and he would not leave the fence with me..even...
I have had the white with red bottom waterers for long time ...I just hated the chickens sitting on top and pooping in the water!!! so when I was at tsc they had these green ones that the top is bigger around than the base where the water is...and I bought one and I just love it ...
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for Easter I wanted something different this year so I went to butcher block and bought a leg o lamb and a 11# goose...Man the goose was $76 ...I told my wife I wanted a few geese this year and she said no 35 chicks is enough..well at 76 bucks I should of got a few...jeff
when I was trying to feed yogart I would put some in a dich and they were always walking in it...so I cut a 10 inch piece of cardboard and put yogart up the sides a nd then leaned it up against the box I have in there and then they couldn't walk on it and just ate off the sides...it worked real...
I really didn't think the sorting facility would call at nite..I did call the sort facility the day before and left my # and told them to call when in. well after they called at 10:30PM I went and got them and man were they chirping..got home and emptied them out and check em over.. all 30...