Search results for query: *

  1. PhilSanchez

    Mixing chicks in established flock

    If you let new chicks mix with flock, what do they eat? No way to keep other hens from starter food? Change feed to “All Flock” put calcium on the side? Leave chicks in the brooder with mother? Brooder about 2’ off of the ground with ladder entrance. Be the first time hatching chicks with...
  2. PhilSanchez

    So many choices

    Straw, chips or poop board. Building this new coop. Need automatic pooper scooper. 😂
  3. PhilSanchez

    Food and water inside coop or in the run

    Sometimes so much info on here that it is impossible to find the exact answer from the great experts here on BYC. My query, New coop 16 X 10 with an attached chain link run 16 X 30. If I place the food and water inside some will inevitably get spilled, bring in rodents? Placing outside in the...
  4. PhilSanchez

    What the heck?

    Supposed to be a Wyandotte born in the spring, so figure maybe 22 weeks ? Certainly should not be laying tiny eggs, see pictures, Thanks
  5. PhilSanchez

    New triplets

    Got new babies at the Heart of Dixie poultry show in Ft Payne yesterday, was tol wyandottes heck they could be anything. 😂
  6. PhilSanchez

    Solved Drawing a blank

    For some reason have only recently noticed “songster” by some posts and not others, please explain to his denseness. 🤔
  7. PhilSanchez

    Everything rocking along good

    You walk in find a good hen half eaten, breaks your heart. Gonna fortify this pen like Fort Knox, things go along great for 9 months, you walk out to let the girls free range like you do every morning, look around one of your great buff orphingtons half eaten no idea how the thing got in. So off...
  8. PhilSanchez

    Looking for a place to sleep

    I found this baby opossum asleep in a nest box this morning 😂 Poked it into a net and put it to sleep for eternity.
  9. PhilSanchez

    Never get enough

    How is it most of us are never satisfied, whenever there is an opportunity to add we do it? Looking forward to the end of this virus crap, where a show happens so can buy more 😂 Don’t favor getting day old chicks or buying from Tractor supply as usually get a rooster or two. Don’t like roosters...
  10. PhilSanchez

    Mice

    My rooster caught a mouse, me and six hens could not get it away from him. will it hurt him to eat the mouse? no poison anywhere around, Thanks, Phil
  11. PhilSanchez

    Cockrel?

    12 week old australorp suspicious that it is a male and not a female.:celebrate Perhaps one of you experts can tell from photo, thanks Phil
  12. PhilSanchez

    Introducing

    Introducing 3 40 day old black austrlorp hens to the existing 3 hen flock hens were curious for about 5 minutes the went about their business. squirrel more interested than hens.
  13. PhilSanchez

    Rhode Island reds???

    Got these 5 young hens from a local farmer, I am not smart enough to tell if they are RI Reds or another breed. Is picture good enough or do I need to show more of the head? Thanks for the help, Phil
  14. PhilSanchez

    Breeding back black sex link

    I now have eight two year old black sex link hens, just acquired a great looking RIR one year old rooster. What could I expect if I should be lucky enough to get new babies out of this union. All went great when I introduced him to the hens. Couple of little squabbles, was very quickly sorted...
  15. PhilSanchez

    Easy clean

    Simply scrape it up with a flat shovel everyday no big deal throw it over the fence. My 12 hens free range over an acre on my farm. they always go to the coop to lay and always put themselves up at night. Now if I could train them to bring me the eggs all would be good. LOL
  16. PhilSanchez

    Fighting with oposums

    Caught on opossum in a havaheart trap. Took it off a couple of miles now there is another that got in the henhouse, ate one of my nine week old babies. I have been working for two days to opossum proof every little nook and cranny that he could possibly get into including fencing in the roof of...
  17. PhilSanchez

    Been looking at BYC site for awhile. Time to join the good folks here.

    Hi, from the beautiful NE Georgia mountains (Blairsville). Thought a good time to start joining and contributing instead of being an anonymous browser. Although I have had chickens of and on for a couple of years I am still so wet behind the ears that my head is under water. I have already...
Back
Top Bottom