About a year ago, my family ¨accidentally¨ bought a 25 acre farm in south Ohio that we have had for about a year now. We have two llamas (a intact female and gelded male), two alpacas (intact female, gelded male), two mini donkeys (intact female, gelded male), and two whether goats that we all...
I am receiving four ducklings late April this year, and I need to get some kind of brooder set up. I am thinking about getting the smallest size hardware cloth I can find and stretching it across the bottom of some kind of box, leaving a space underneath for all the water they splash around to...
I got 8 chicks yesterday(4 Americana, 4 Plymouth rocks), and everything is seeming fine except they are all trying to peck at a specific spot on the bottom of their plastic brooder. The only reason I can imagine them doing this is to get some sort of grit for the little bit of scrambled eggs I...
My family just bought a 25 acre farm in southern Ohio, and it has a large barn supposedly built in the 1800s. It has one stall that looks as if it is just for storage, so I was curious as to weather or not it is a viable idea to build a wall on the open side for a chicken coop. The dimensions of...
We just moved to an old farm in Logan, Ohio and the barn has a solid 2 feet of horse crap on the stall portion. I want to know if I should remove it, let it be, or use some other solution. Some of it is wet from rain and snow blowing in. I also dont own any heavy machinery to scoop it out, only...