I am hoping people with more predator experience can help me figure out what is taking my birds.
I first lost two, a twelve pound rooster and a ten month old hen, sometime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Eight days later, I lost seven more, six that were about two months old and one that was three...
I apologize that this is long. I just don't know what I don't know...
I’m in the early stages of setting up breeding pens and want to plan ahead before I get too far in.
The goal is to keep different lines of birds pure, but I don’t want to give up free-ranging. My birds have access to about...
This is not my work, but I found it open source. This is the 3d print file for a divider to go inside the trays. I printed them and they work great, I was using hair ties before that (also not my idea).
I print from ultimaker cura and it fits perfect.
I also have the 2 files for the big...
The Maticoopx 30 just finished a great hatch—18 out of 18 chicks hatched from my new DNA line of Jersey Giants, and 11 out of 12 hatched from my Jersey Giant × (JG, Brahma, or Sapphire Gem) cross batch. One egg from the mixed batch hasn't hatched yet, but it's fully developed and I'm giving it...
1. Where did you get the birds?
These chicks were hatched from my own mixed flock.
The parent birds are:
• Black Jersey Giant roosters
• Hens: Black Jersey Giants, Sapphire Gems, Golden Comets, Speckled Sussex, Buff Brahma, and Ameraucana.
The original flock came from Tractor Supply...
I am a resident of Florida
I live in Central Kansas part of the year.
I am new to chickens, I picked up 28 at the beginning of last winter.
I currently have 23 adults, 15 chicks (mostly mixed, pure are BJG), and 5 ducks have hatched so far, should be more in next 12 hours
Black Jersey...
Ok, time for me to post the not so good and the bad.
All chickens have coop and huge run, they free range from about 1 hour after sunrise to 1 before.
I bought 28 chicks from the beginning of last winter. "all pullets" Jersey Giants, Brahmas, Sapphire Gems, Golden Comets Americana, and...