I'm worried about our two Australorps. Since early Spring they've been wandering around half naked and their skin looks so red. I call them my little zombie chickens, they look so straggly. They otherwise seem healthy, eating, drinking and laying. This is our first full year raising chickens, so...
Looking through the small coop link, I get to the bottom of the first page, select next page, then I get this message,
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When I make the same effort on both the medium and large coops, it just goes to...
We have a seven month old White Rock that was showing all the signs of being egg bound. Lethargic, penguin walk, tail down, etc. We took her inside and gave her a nice long warm water soak and massaged her abdomen the first night. The next day she was a little worse, so we repeated the warm...
We already have a heated bucket with nipples, but I thought this idea had merit for those using the trough style waterer.
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/11/make-cookie-tin-waterer-heater-under-10.html
When my wife and I became a couple some years back, she let it be known that if we ever made it back to the country, she would love to have a few chickens. I promised that if/when we made that move she WOULD have those chickens. Fast forward about five years and we were in a position to buy...
My wife will soon have her wish of chickens in the back yard. A couple of years ago we bought a small farm out in the hills of western WI, and only a few months ago finished building our new house. After a short rest to recover from that 2 1/2 year project...