Hi! We are starting the planning to get some ducks (thinking maybe 4-6? for meat and eggs). We will be setting up some sort of little pool / pond for them, using a stock tank probably or something like that, probably buried in the ground. We will have water from our spring overflow that we...
Hi! I am getting moved into our new place and unpacking boxes, and have a small bag of unused Bob's Red Mill organic buckwheat groats. I don't think they are necessarily raw, so I don't think they'll sprout, but I am wondering if I can mix them into the chick starter that I have, or if I can...
Hey everyone! I'm MouseBandit, from the SW corner of Oregon. :-) We just bought a new property, and are getting busy setting up infrastructure for our chickies. We have 4 layers (auracanas) from last fall's hatch, and two new batches of chicks, a set that are 4 weeks old, including Blue Laced...
Hi! We just bought a new property and don't have any infrastructure yet for the chickens, so I put together an outdoor brooder shelter for my 2 batches of chickies (one batch 4 weeks, and other is 3 days). It's enclosed all the way around except one side, and my brooders slide into it (one...