So we took all flock to our local duck pond that has duck and geese that live there during the summer one of the rangers said something to us about feeding them the wrong stuff I told him it was all flock and he didn't seem to understand I just want to make sure I'm not crazy it's ok to feed...
So this morning I caught a homeless lady stealing eggs from my coop so I stopped her and told her like I told the man that was taking eggs 2yrs ago there is no need to steal them I will give you eggs you just need to ask so I gave her a dozen eggs some butter and sent her on her way she thanked...
My duck refuses to lay her eggs in a nesting box it's like she layes where ever she is standing I find them everywhere in the coop floor in the run its weird I've never had a duck lay like this is there anything I can do to get her to lay in the boxes
So this is the first attempt/break in that I've had in like 8yrs a raccoon decided to break into my coop biggest mistake of his life my roosters were not having any of it and killed it only 1 injured rooster not that bad put some peroxide on it and he's good to go but my 8 bantam roosters killed...
Hatching some quail for a friend she is bringing me 250eggs from her existing quail hers are getting older so after these hatch she will butcher the old ones hoping for 100%hatch fingers crossed 🤞
I am a rooster rescuer and have found homes for all 25 rescues now on to the next project building a large brooder pallet place here I come anyone have any idea how big I should make it it needs to hold at least 50 chicks
On day 4 of my second hatch first was turkies and silkies 100% hatch this time is white/ grey leghorns, EE's/ grey leghorns, silkies and black sexlink/black astrolorpe the leghorns are spidered beautifully and the silkies the others i can't see so we will find out when/if they hatch and good...
My daughter talked me into getting more silkies and ducks so we now have 12silkie chicks and 6ducklings chicken math is real people good thing I expanded my coop last summer
I have a white leghorn that lays a double yolker every day since she started to lay the one is her compared to other white leg horn and a golden sexlink is there anything wrong with it
So my neighbor 3doors down has a new girlfriend that doesn't like my roosters. She informed me of this by calling animal control and coming to my house when Drake and Jonie ( I worked at the apl so I know them) arrived to tell me about her complaint screaming about my stupid roosters crowing so...
So my kids do a hatching project in school in the spring and we were asked if we wanted to donate eggs for the project and get back what ever hatches so we said yes and my daughters class is going to do duck eggs and my boys will be doing chicken eggs im so eggsited for them to have this...
Now I know my pekins are not supposed to be laying yet but my Rouens haven't started yet and they are 25wks old should I not expect any from anyone till spring im at a loss with the ducks never had any that didn’t start laying on time
so my daughter has been begging for emus so my husband told her that if she got B&C's in school this yr we would extend the coop again and get her emus in the spring my question is how do I prepare for emus I know coop and run need to be bigger but how much taller coop is 8' tall but the run is...