Why all of a sudden the past week are the bees hovering over my chick feeder and wont go away. The chicks wont eat them either.
Whats in that dry chick feed that the bees are after??? Just this past week...........
pam in TX
Have a rain storm going on here . Havent had rain in months, now its horrible wind and rain. Lucky enough to bring baby chicks up to their beddybye pen by the house before it hit, but they are wet! I have them covered now with a tarp, the tree out by their daytime pen has broke a BIG limb onto...
The more I look at Silkies the more Id love to have a trio. I have a small pen I could house them in during the day, and would probably crate them at night.
I also have many ex pens to move them around in. However, is it possible for them to run the yard along side the Bigger Hens (BO, BR...
If you have switched from crumbles to pellets, how long did it take for them to start eating the pellets really well. Crumbles is too much waste on the ground. They either scratch it out of their wall trough, or turn the bowl over and dump it out on the ground. Next bag Im buying pellets...
I just noticed one of my 8 wk old Buff Orp has no toenails on her middle toe on each foot.
How often does this happen? Will she have trouble 'scratchin in the dirt'?
pam in TX
Ive been reading not to feed too much Scratch because they dont need it. Also read it makes them hot in the summer (that doesnt make sense to me)
Anyway, also see that the Organic Soy Free feed is mostly Grain which would equal SCRATCH /Grains.
So what is the difference in feeding the Soy Free...
I just got a bag of Soy free grain. I opened the box and it had bugs on the bag, I opened the bag and it has bugs crawling all over
Im not one to return things, just wont buy again. It was $25 for feed and $25 to ship.
What do I do with this feed??????? I took it outside. I was going to keep...
My 5 older hens have been roosting on the same thing all their life. Its a Superyard playyard for toddlers and puppies. I kept them in it when there were chicks and just moved it out to the old boat shed, now hen house. They are 3 yr old, and I now have 7 buff orp chicks Im growing up and got...