I've been trying to find this information somewhere online and just can't find what I'm looking for. My daughter started raising mealworms for our chickens. We bought 1000 mealworms and they are starting to turn into Pupa. My question is: these 1,000 worms will turn into 1000 beetles that each...
Today we found our chick, Becky, looking pretty sick.
She is a 3 week old Black Australorp. She looks like she is panting or having trouble breathing, keeps moving her head while opening her mouth repeatedly. Her chirp is not the same as the other chicks. She is lethargic. Just sits there...
We are building our chicken run. It is 6 feet tall and we made the sides out of welded wire. We thought that chicken wire would be sufficient for the "roof" but are now realizing that maybe raccoons could get through it. We wanted to make it secure enough that we could leave the pop door open at...
Hi! New to BYC and new to Fairview. We moved to TN from Iowa, and when we were house hunting, we made sure to check chicken ordinances because we knew we wanted backyard chickens. There seems to be quite a bit of confusion about the current laws regarding chickens in Fairview city limits on the...