Yesterday one of my ducks stuck her head between the wires in the electric poultry netting and ended up dying. It is just such a drag when you go to lengths to protect creatures and then something like this happens. I have poultry netting from Premier - good stuff - and it has kept our chickens...
I made and put aprons/shawls on 2 of my chickens last night. Of course they were color coordinated with their feathers... And now today we have the most incredible downpour and the girls are walking around with these wet color coordinated wads of fabric on their backs. In all my reading on this...
Hi from Fairfield, Iowa! I'm a new member, but have greatly benefited from all the great info on BYC over the past 3 years. We have a variety of breeds in our flock of 10 chickens: Barred Rock, Black Australorp, Buff Orpington, Polish, Red Star, Blue Laced Wyandotte, White Rock, and Easter...