Here are my rainbow layers from McMurray. They are outside with a heat lamp. The weather is warm for this time of year and I'm sure they will stay warm
Here's a link to the webcam:
http://68.119.60.246:1024/img/main.cgi?next_file=main.htm
Edited to correct link.
Had a new coop built. This one has a cement floor because no matter what we did with the floor with the old coop, "critters" would still dig through and eat the food. Here's a link:
http://www.friscofarms.tzo.com/img/main.cgi?next_file=main.htm
Went out the other morning to find 18 dead chickens all over the place. They were spread out among 2 pastures. Most of them had no signs of injuries at all. Nothing. About 4 of them had head and/or necks eaten or missing. I am assuming it was raccoons. My question is: What happened to the...
I ordered 10 Americanas, 5 copper marans, 5 black star sex-links, 5 spanish (they are black with white faces), and they threw in 2 extra sex-links. 27 chicks, all arrived ALIVE and healthy! Yea! Now I have about 62 hens, 4 guineas, 3 roosters and about 12 or 13 goats. Here's the link to the...
A friend of mine just lost all his hens in one fell swoop. See the picture below. Whatever it was ripped a hole through the chicken wire. They live in a very rural area with lots of woods and trees around. He had about 9 chickens and they were left in 2 "neat" piles, but they were very...
There is a front page article in the WSJ about keeping backyard chickens and they mentioned BYC! Here's the article. Is the lady featured a member here?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761681413642361.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us
I know there was another thread on Farmville, but it was so big! I just started on there and need some (chicken) neighbors. My FB link is my website on the left, under the avatar.
Thanks!!
There doesn't seem to be much activity on the backyardherds forum, so I am posting here.
I have a female about one year old. Has had "squishy" poop for many months now. I tried different wormers, Pepto Bismal, Pro-biotics, nothing works. She still eats and drinks and runs around with all the...
I have a 10 X 20 garden that is fenced in so the chickens can't get in there. Yesterday I noticed some beetles and bugs, and I do not want to use pesticides. What do you think if I let my 4 week old guineas in there to clean up the bugs? The fence is about 4 feet high. I wonder if they would...
People! I amazes me that people keep their chicks and chickens IN THE HOUSE for weeks and weeks. They need to be outside. They are livestock. Not only that, but it is smelly and dusty in the house.
Release your chickens from the rubbermaid prison and let them enjoy the outdoors!
Welsummer? It's the one in the back. She does not have any distinctive black in her tail feathers, so I don't think she is a RIR.
Brahma?
Silver Laced Wyandottes?
Got my 25 ornamental layers and 25 brown egg layers today. It's so cold for this part of Georgia!!! I only had one DOA and one other little runt that I don't think will make it.
There are Polish, cochins, and one Turken - naked neck!
Here's some pics:
Here's my naked neck!
I saw in another post someone suggested a donkey to protect their livestock. I didn't want to hijack that thread, so for those of you who have one I have questions:
Are they easy to take care of? I have goats. Will they eat the hay I give the goats? We have 3 acres that is fenced in so they...
I've got 2 Doms and 2 RIR roosters I bought when they were chicks. I thought they were hens because I wanted brown eggs. They have gotten aggressive and I want to get rid of them.
What I really would like is if someone can show me how to process them. We can trade out: you can have 2 of...
Well, my dorking has been broody for weeks. Yesterday I noticed 2 new baby chicks. Today I went out there and the little" blondie" chick was standing on the edge of the nest ready to DIVE into the chicken coop with all the adult hens. I moved them and about 10 other eggs to a new pen...
Hello fellow chicken-lovers! (and goat lovers)
I haven't been able to get into www.goatweb.com website for a couple of days. I get that error message that says "page not available". Any other goat lovers out there having problems accessing that site, too?
I am as addicted to that website as...
Woke up at 7:30 this morning to gun shots. LOUD gunshots. I was ready to call 911, but since we are suburbanites that moved to this rural area less than a year ago, I thought I would google hunting season in GA.
Well, today is the first day of hunting season for doves. Come on! How many...
I've been reading the posts about Easter Eggers and Americanas, etc. The chicken I thought was an EE is laying white eggs.
Do they ever change colors, or will they always lay the same colored egg?