Hey friends.
This may be a dumb question and I feel I know the answer but are black oil sunflower seeds for wild birds from walmart acceptable to feed to chickens ?
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So every morning I give the ladies fresh water. They have two water bowls. One with 4 nipple thingies (still half full) and one with an open bottom the regular kind lol still half full. When I filled with fresh water they were at the regular one gathered and drinking as if they...
We officially have 7 of 9 layers now. Our two brown bovans have laid today. Our last two which are black bovans I believe are younger than we were told and I suspect they may start laying in a few weeks.
Our daughter was giving them fresh water and sitting with them when she checked the nesting...
On the weekend my wife and I were gone to town (about 30-40 mins from home) to do some shopping and our youngest daughter stayed home. She took our terrier out for a walk and the dog started barking at something. Our daughter noticed 3 raccoons on our side deck. She put the dog in the house...
I’m no carpenter or inventor lol but I made this cabbage holder out of an 8 inch spike. I drilled a hole in the end and attached an S hook and then hung it from a rafter in the chicken run. Feeling pretty accomplished lol.
This afternoon we picked up our 2 brown Bovans and 2 black bovans.
The final members of the butt nugget posse.
Yes I know about chicken math and just like calculus I don’t believe in it 😂😂😂
All got along great.
At 9 pm the 3 older girls went into the coop.
The two brownish ones that were given...
After the passing of Hen HeiHei a friend of ours who has chickens offered my wife 2 layers to make up for the the loss. So we added Blanch and Ingrid to the flock. They are two back yard mixes but our friend suspects some silkie in one of them.
Blanch is the smaller of the two. And they are...
Hey gang.
So our hens are about 20 to 21 weeks. Today before we left for work we checked for eggs and had a hen in a nesting box. I checked under her and nothing so I left her thinking she was gonna lay. When we got home she was still in the same box. No egg under her. I scootched her out of...
On Saturday my son and I took a little course put on by our local
Municipality. The instructor has been raising meat and layers for generations on a small farm locally.
He covered many things. Yes most would be online. But his real world experience and presentation was great. He engaged the two...
Hi folks. I figured I’d give a run down of our coop and run. Keep mind I’m no carpenter and you’d be hard pressed to find a 90 degree angle. But I did the best I could.
Most material was recycled.
Our biggest out of pocket expenses were the hardware cloth, 2x4’s, screws and hinges and stuff...
Here are some picks of our coop and run.
The wall panels and floor are 3/4 inch plywood salvaged from some crates at work. The window was something I found during heavy trash day a month ago. The sheet metal roof is from my son in law who owns a sheet metal roofing company and they are left...
hi folks
my name is Jason, i live on Canada's east coast "cape breton island" to be exact lol
we ordered 8 layers a couple of months ago and have since built a coop and run, today we pick up 4 of our girls and the other 4 in june or july.