Is brooding silkies different from other chicks? We are on our third year with chickens and very little loss in the past (usually within a day of shipment), but this year we have lost 2 out of 10 self blue silkies. They cost me a pretty penny, so I'd like to figure out what's going on with...
This was our first year with chickens and built our meaties a 12'x12' hoop tractor. Worked great, except it was too dang heavy to move!
We have a lot of predator pressure here, large hawks that keep an eye on our enclosed flocks, bears, wolves, coyote, fox, lynx, coons, skunks and weasels are...
I have been making a whole grain feed for my layers, but they eat everything but the wheat. I'd like to adjust the recipe to reduce or eliminate the wheat, but what should I replace it with?
Recipe is:
4 part rye
9 part Barley
9 part Oats
9 part red wheat
4 part black oiled sunflower...
It's our first year. We started with 29 cornish X and lost one the first night to shipping stress. Everyone has seemed healthy and we are now at 8 weeks.
We were feeding as much feed as they could eat in 20 minutes after the second week, twice daily. They seemed small (for what the hatchery...