So I can only care for my flock half the week and when I had just ten birds I didn't feel to bad about letting a family member care for them but now I have 54 birds and terriblle systems so I was wondering if there was any suggestions. My goal would be that they would be able to stay by...
I got my hands on a breeding trio of booted bantams from a friend who had like 4 days to get rid of them three young hens and a rooster. Two of the hens have brooded up some chicks but any advice
I want to hear everyone's looking back on it moments the ones were you cant understand how this happened until you it studently hits you for example i have a 24 week old bird who always runs up to me and nips at my fingers not hard but like just to tell me that its there and i couldn't figure...
Please post any or all of your food and water tricks and hacks I blanked out and went from one bird with 1 foot in April to 46 chickens and 3 ducks ( I have never had ducks and got them with 3 days warning as new borns so I need some tips
Hi I just got 5 booted bantam and two Easter Eggers. They are young just starting to lay. I would like to tame them there very wild . I do have some experience working with old bird. But not young birds and not anything super fancy. Just wondering if any one as any advice?
Hello I am getting chicks for the first time. I have had chickens for awhile now but never baby chicks wondering what I could do for a brooder and just basic stuff about raising chicks. Please send advice. I live near a small town in Alberta Canada and am going to order from a hatchery hopefully...
My hen started limping about three weeks ago and it turned out that her foot had cracked we found this out from a neighbor who also gave us some antibiotics we did just like she told us and even put her in a dog cage in the house. After the first few treatments it didn't seem to pain her. Last...
Hi I am 13 and live in a small town in alberta Canada. Wondering if any body has any suggestions for egg birds that will be both cold and heat hardy I have a lost a lot of birds so I want to make sure that I get climate appropriate breeds.
I have a story of woe to tell. I have had chickens for two years now. I am only at the farm half the time because we have some thief and vandel problems so dad is staying out there to finish pluming the house . This spring I got 10 chicks who were 4 weeks old everything was great until they were...
My chicken has a white substance the texture of tofu in her throat over the opening to her trachea. We have have treated for sour crop and as that did not do anything we have been treating for a yeast infection for the last few weeks and she was doing good when she was with 3 chicks but when i...
Hi I live in alberta and would like to make a petition to town council to allow backyard chickens in vegreville
Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions
I live in a small town in alberta canada called vegrville some of the time and i have chickens on the farm and would like to be aloud to have them here in town. Currently we are not aloud to have chickens here but I am thinking to make a petition to the town to reconsider it wondering if any...
l have a poulet who is 12weeks old but she looks like she is only 4 she is so skinny she has a cross beak she also will not eat she may have a small cut in the inside of the beak what should i do