What's a good-sized shop vac that we can use to vacuum out the coop/ We wouldn't really need an industrial one. The coop is maybe a couple of hundred square feet.
We had a Buff Orpington rooster who was the best rooster in the world (until something got him). He crowed very infrequently, was considerate of the ladies, and was not aggressive towards us at all. Now we have Buffs from chicks, several of whom are likely to be roosters. But at over 12 weeks...
Last Friday we got our first batch of mail order chicks. Since then we've lost a
few (six, and maybe today one more, out of 17) and we were wondering what
the usual mortality rate for chicks is (if there is one)?
Thank you!
The other day I cracked open a HUGE egg from one of our Buff Orpingtons that just started laying and
was surprised by a double-yolk! That's the first one we've had in almost ten years of keeping chickens!
Is there a percentage of how often this happens? And what if such an egg was fertilized...
Here's one from the cold case files. Over five years ago our Mottled Cochin bantam hen Peep disappeared without a trace. This happened in the afternoon. We searched our two and a half acre property thoroughly for two days (at the time our chickens had free range of the whole place) and found...
We live in Central/Northern California and would like to get about three Buff Orpington bantam pullets (backups for Pumpkin, who is getting older).
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
CD