And the ladies are moved in! Opinions thoughts? I have new water buckets for them with the little cup feeders.
Hardware cloth will be stapled 6” up the base of the coop then backfilled with Roadbase. Eventually going to put hog fuel/wood chips in the run for drainage.. hoping the cross...
My partner and I are building our run. We have flattened an area about 500sq feet of previously wooded area. I’ve removed the larger foliage and as you can see in the pictures there are tons of weeds and rocks of varying sizes. We plan to eventually put wood chips/hog fuel down but am...
I lost a 3 1/2 week old chick today. She was fine this morning; then this afternoon when I checked on them when the others were running from the big hand that feeds them but she didn’t run away.. I picked her up and her breathing was fast and squeaky, I checked her mouth for obstructions...
This look umbilical to me it’s not bleeding - anyone else have an idea what this is ? It looks under the bum but the chick is in the incubator so it’s hard to see ?
I just went and got some 2 week olds - I’m wondering if my week olds that I hatched and the 2 something week olds are ok in the same brooder should a wait a week till the week olds are a bit more sturdy?
Hi there we’re at the end of day 20 here (I set them early afternoon I’m new). I don’t see any pips or movement (except one egg has moved) is this normal? I didn’t candle the eggs because I didn’t know. Temp has been consistent and humidity since day 18 lockdown has been 65-70 no less.. anyone...