Hello everyone, trying to come up with easy to clean/work in breeding pens, my coops will be 4x8 long, filled with only roosting bars, i have read up on this "sand" in the coop, some make a bin or pan just to hold the sand under the bars, the chickens use the bathroom then the next morning you...
OK am trying to make a blue print plan for 4 large coops, 4x8 coops, with bars inside for the birds to roost on, No lay boxes, am planning on putting the lay boxes within the runs not the coops, they will be up off the ground, No able to walk inside, but will have double doors to open and reach...
i am looking for Olive egger hatching eggs, not the "Easter egger" Eggs you know the kind the hatcheries sells?
am looking for a line someone has been working with to be a deep olive color. or green, but not the light green that the "F1 Easter eggers" lay. i want to order them around February...
i have been googling all day and looking on this page but many of the photos are old links and i cant even view them, so please so me your breeding pens!
I checked with my neighbors no one owns any pigeons but we did have a livestock auction Saturday about 5 miles away and am wondering if this guy got out of his cage and flew to my house Sunday morning i came out only to notice this guy in my goose pen but when i walked in he flew into a near by...
hey everyone!! i got a chick order in today!!! i already own Easter eggers and black australorps i ordered them a little over a year ago when we first started the this "homestead" and i really wanted more breeds to look at rather then just my 2 kinds of chickens.....so0o0o for months i have been...
i post this not only because i had a Bad experience but because i will Never recommend there company to anyone! a few weeks ago i had a order of One dozen Copper marans hatching eggs $6.95 a egg i ordered a dozen One came broken *wasn't to upset* i had a total of 13 eggs but out of the 12 eggs...
OK, my chickens are really well cared for and 100% healthy however i went and visited my friends farm a few miles away and i find she has a HUGE disease problem. chickens are all sick and dieing when i was there i saw 2 dead in the yard and over 50+ Sick,puffed eyed, sneezing, and just Horrible...
I have a few, well they are hard to get a photo of everyone, but i got one of at least some...They are Bantams. let me know what you think.
Link to my FB photos, but i have it so anyone can see it, let me know if it works...
i posted this before in the chicken forms but since this is mainly for geese, you tell me can i feed this to geese
with the price of feed going up and owning so many birds i have found a feed mill that sells there own feed. they do many livestock feeds and am Quickly buying 95% of all my feed...
with the price of feed going up and owning so many birds i have found a feed mill that sells there own feed. they do many livestock feeds and am Quickly buying 95% of all my feed there. i have had No problems, and i find the feed to smell sweet i like the size of the pellet/crumble and my...
i got some eggs from a friend, to see if i could hatch out. even though her Birds look great, and now the eggs are hatching in the bator, She told me she does have coccidiosis within her flock , can Coccidiosis Pass through the egg of the hen? and now when they do hatch the chicks will have...
hi everyone!!
we have really Made some big changes around here, are First project was my 10 by 6 foot Coop, complete with a 20 foot run Fenced in around and netting on the top, to keep anything out!! and my chickens Safe, it has over 10 lay boxes ( i cant remember off the top of my head how...
hi everyone!! i have recently moved from Iowa to the B-E-A-U-T-I--F-U-L Country side in Central FL, its been a little over 3 weeks here and in this Haven of Land and i want our first "farm" animal to be chickens. for the past few months i raised Quail. so i get the "idea" of keeping birds. we...
Today i drove to a friends house to pick up my Very own Quail, he Hatches out over 1,000 a month. and his setup was really nice. i was so excited about being there..i didnt take any photos of the place. but it was AWESOME. he had many kinds of breeds/breeders. 4 huge baby bins and many adult...
ok i feel like Nancy drew trying to find all the clues and hints on how to make a good Low cost pen/coop ((side note why are some called coops and other pens??) anyway so i noticed at the store its Much cheaper to buy the hard Plastic poultry netting, comes in a dark green color, but i noticed...
well i have been really looking at raising some Quail my Landlord said i can, and this weekend am going to a friends House who breeds 100's of them. to see his Set up and see the birds first hand. Now i have seen some Amazing Coops and pens. but many of you have wood laying around and even...
Hello everyone! i have been reading on this site as a Guest for the past few weeks and now i think its time i become a member. well i dont know how you will feel about WHY i got some Quail eggs...But...Here we go..
Its for my snakes
Whoa, glad i got that out of the way. Anyway. After doing...