I noticed one of my chickens was limping, so I lured her up with some feed (she isnt a big fan of being touched). On the bottom of both her feet were calluses but on the foot she was limping, said callus was peeled halfway off, and there was a lot of rather dry pus and infection in it. I cleaned...
I recently bought some chicks at a nearby RK. They were put into a 100 gal trough spread with large flake pine bedding, with waterer, feed tray, and covered with a metal rack with square holes precisely 2¾" wide. The chicks were kept on the front porch up against the wall under the roof.
This...
As I always do, when I have new chicks I keep them separated until they are nearing adulthood, and then I put them in a dog kennel next to the chicken pen for a few days so all the other chickens can get used to them without, ya know, murdering them (the roosters are very exited to see new...
I until recently was the proud owner of one Great Pyrenees dog. About a week ago she randomly disappeared, I believe she was kidnapped. It wouldnt be hard considering she would go anywhere with anybody, she was such a nice girl, and she would never hurt a chicken at all. And over the year~ I had...
For quite a while now my nearby Rural King has been selling almost all their chicks for the low low price of only $2.01.
They are all marked as $4.99, but over that marked $2.01 and they no longer have limits as to how many chickies you can buy at once. Rural King sources chicks from Hoover...