I am thinking about getting some guineas this spring & I have never had them before so I don't know anything about what I would need to do for them.
Do they have to have a coop or can they just stay outside? and wouldn't a hawk or my dog that likes to chase chickens get them?
They would...
I have to do public presentation for 4-H. Public Presentation is where you have to write a speech. I can't decide if I want to do it on horses, cows or chickens.
Even if I decided which animal to do it on I don't know what I would do it about like do I do a breed or my animal or something else?
I have some chicks that hatched at the end of September and I know what breed they are but I want to know what other people think they could be. All of the chicks are bantams.
Chick #1 also I don't know if this is a Cockerel or pullet so if you know please tell me
Chick #2
Chick #3
You...
right now I have a Barred Rock cockerel in with 12 hens and all the hens are too old to lay so I am going to get rid of them in the spring. I am going to replace them with pullets and when I get them the pullets will be about 1.5-2 months old. I have a spot in the coop where I can put a bird so...
I will try to post a photo every day but I will probably miss a few days
Thursday 1-1-26
Skippy laying in a tote of clothes in the house. We had to let him inside because it is too cold for him to be outside tonight
Who likes to read? And what kinds of books do you like to read?
I love reading and my favorite books to read are westerns by William Johnstone
And my 2nd favorite books to read are books about racehorses
I made a thread for photos because I feel bad dumping too many pictures on someone else's thread even if it says post as many pics as you want.
I am going to post a whole bunch of photos but please post your photos I love seeing other peoples pictures and there is no limit to photos you can...
I have been around cattle pretty much my whole life. My older siblings each had a bottle calf when they were 6 and we would also have bottle calves for everyone to share. I was way too little to really do anything, but I do remember trying to bottle feed a calf that I had named Mudge when I was...
At the end of each 4-H year I have to fill out a paper that says my time for chores/spending time with my animals and what I did each month🙄
The new 4-H year started on October 1st and I have been keeping track of my time for chores since then instead of guessing hours like I have been doing...
I had a bantam Leghorn and a bantam Rhode Island Red hatch chicks. I don't know for sure who the mother is for 2 chicks but 1 of the chicks is the leghorns chick. The other 2 babies could either be from the Red hen that hatched them or they could be eggs layed by my Partridge Wyandotte hens and...
I have 2 leghorn pullets, 2 partridge wyandotte pullets & 1 Rhode island red pullet. I have 1 partridge wyandotte cockerel & 1 RIR cockerel. there is also 3 barred plymouth rock pullets & 1 buff orpington pullet. they are all in the same coop the leghorns, wyandottes & RIRs are all about 4-4.5...
does anyone have Golden Laced Sebrights?
I have some and they are extremely flighty and they act more like a wild bird then a chicken we joke about that they would probably fly away with the birds in the winter if we let them go. but is anyone elses Sebrights this flighty or is it just mine?
I just went outside to do my bottle calves water and I went to go look at my pregnant heifer to see if she is calving and I went in the pen with my cow (my cows name is Toffee) and Toffee was licking a baby by the time I went out the calf was probably under 1 hour old. The calf is a heifer (this...
I have 2 pigs to show for 4-H this year one of them is a spot barrow named Puddles and my second one is a hampshire gilt named Sparkles she is a breeding gilt they both walk pretty good for me not perfect yet but getting better every time I walk them. I am also training my sisters pig he is a...
so this is what my average day looks like.
I wake up at about 8 every morning and go outside to do chores which take about an hour then after the animals are eating I have to work my animals which are: 1 goat, 2 cows and 3 pigs that takes like an hour or longer then after that is done I come in...
I love racehorses and I have memorized all of the Triple Crown winners from the first one Sir Barton in 1919 to Justify in 2018 and I love all the famous ones I think Man O'War is the best but my favorite would have to be American Pharoah the 12th Triple crown which he won in 2015.
I want to move my Silver Laced Wyandotte standard chicks that are about 7 weeks old out of the water tank I use for a brooder into the coop with my bantam hens because the chicks are too small to be with my standard hens but the same size as my bantams but the bantams get layer feed and the...