This year I bought a DynaTrap insect killer. It attracks the bugs with a blue light and when they fly in to the blue light area they get sucked down in to a basket by a fan where they eventually die. I have a ton of dead bugs, tons of moths. Is it OK to feed the dead bugs to my flock?
I lost one of my Buff Orpingtons yesterday. She was 2 years and 5 months old. She was my biggest girl. With no rooster she ruled the roost. She was fine, my husband brought out cored apples (seeds removed) and 5 of our girls came running and she did not. He found her in the ground area of our...
So i cracked an egg this morning and most of the time they are a nice and normal dark yellow yolk and very tasty. This time...i just threw it in the garbage. Now i have had one once that was green and stinky and made me gag and almost vomit. That went in the garbage only i couldnt do it. Was...
So I went out to check the girls' water and fill the feeder and I noticed blood on the feeder. Started looking and I saw some blood on the feathers of one. Started looking more and the back half of one of my buff orpintons combs is missing and she was bleeding a little where her back was pecked...
So, we switched feed from a mixture that saves money to the more expensive purina egg layer feed and I have noticed a huge increase in waste. With the old mixture if food hit the ground, they would eat it. With this new mixture there is so much feed all over the ground, I can not even see the...
So, I got chickens and one is finally laying. I was outside and heard a squawk so I went to check. My fattest "Americana" was in the nesting box brooding over her egg. I managed to snag the egg and replace it with one of my fake eggs but...the egg is tan. Americana's are supposed to lay green...
I got my chickens at a few days old in the middle of april. I have 3 silver laced wyandottes and 3 Americanas. They should be about 21 weeks. We are giving them food which was recommended by an experienced chicken owner. Friends of ours got chickens 1 month after us and theirs are laying. Any...