so the time has come for me to move back to my old stompin grounds to a farm that i have owned but left vacant for the last few years.
my plan is to drive on friday. i have a 12' cube van that will only be about half to two thirds full of tools then my plan is to put up a partition and make a...
so i have gone to the coop to find a bit of blood about a few times over the last months. the first time i found a hen with blood all over her head but no visible sign of injury.
yesterday though i finally noticed where it had come from. 2 of my cockerels are missing toenails
do any of you...
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so after the corn feilds that i rent out were combined this fall i managed to glean about 500lbs of whole corn both on the cob and kernels from over filling the trailers. and i had been feeding it to the birds as a treat but then over the holidays the person who was feeding my birds ended...
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i just had one of my 7 week old barred rock pullets attacked by my puppy (wind blew barn door open while i was out)
here are some pics
i know they arent the greatest shots but i hope you can see that there are 2 areas where the skin has come off mainlyon the right side of her skull and...
so last yesterday i got steve a stray i picked up on the rez down the road from my farm. he was runnin with a herd of semi feral kittens on the beach actually the same beach my puppy came from in the spring.
so after letting him get acclimatized a abit i gave him a good going over this...
first off i will post pics after work but wanted to get this posted first.
i have just bought 6 "aruacana" chicks
i was told they all were hatched from blue eggs and that their father was an aruacana as well
my question is this only one of them seems to be rumpless is this right i know that...
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so i am pretty sure that my new hen "blue" has an impacted crop and probably has had since i first got her.
she has always had what i thought was a prominent breast but tonight (being the first time i was able to give her a thorough going over i found her crop to be what was prominent...
so today i finally got a cpl of laying age hens that i have been owed for a month or so. i think they are black sex link they had a barred rock mom x with a RIR roo. is this correct?
well i wasnt expecting them so i had to throw them n the regular coop which was empty being afternoon and my...
so i got a pair of bantam brown leghorns about 8 days ago and they are great. they are a cute little couple and i am enoying their addition to my flock. what i am wondering is that the little roo "buck owens" has taken to following me around with the dogs everywhere i go he would come right...
i am starting to think so more and more he\\she isnt making and crowing attempts but it loos like it is starting to get some neck \\ cape feathers coming in
lets hear what do you guys think?
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i have recently aquired 2 new birds. they are a pair of last years bantam brown leghorns. i noticed on the first day that the roo had a blister like thing on his ear. being new to chooks i didnt think to much of it but have kept my eye on it none the less (he also seems to be sneezing...
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i have just added a pair of bantam leghorns to my flock of free rangers. and i am wondering when my hen should be laying. they are last years birds and she was laying the day i picked her up. i think i read here somewhere that she might take a a cpl days to start laying after a...
so this a mutt im told polish RIR but i have my doubts
"she" was given to me as a hen but in the last cpl days i have heard so pretty strange attempts at crowing
just wondering what yall think
thanks
so hes done it again
jack the puppy snuck out last night while i was working the shop and killed my last white leghorn
ahhhhhh!!! !@#$ $#%^ !@*% #$%^
i know i know
i havent been leaving him alone with birds or anything the little bugger just snuck out when i thought he was asleep as i was...
i have no a flock of 16 pullet at 11weeks 11 of whom are RIR or production reds i plan on maybe 6 for the freezer and keeping the rest through the winter and on
what i am wondering is they are al now truly free ranginging on my 50 acre farm (well really just on about an acre of it but they could...
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i have been on the hunt for some fertile eggs here in oantario with no luck
but have just read the thread about trader joes fertile eggs
whats up with this are the packages labeled fertile etc. i have never even thought i could hatch eggs from grocery store
pls help me out here
howdy folks
me again i need to find some hatching eggs in ontario or that can be shipped to me here
it i a reall hassle to get acros the border for me these days
i am outside of london ontario
anyone, anyone
good afternoon
i seemed to have spent the afternoon working on my chicken coop (alright but i should have been working for money)
my quetion is
i finished the nest box section of the coop today and as it is now it is a 12' section coming off the back of main section of coop (ill post pics...