We put our meat birds outside in the run a couple of days ago, temps are up to 30C during the day. They used to come running for their food when I put it out, but now they just vaguely peck at it. Wondering if it is due to the heat? Anyone else experience this? This is only my second round of...
Uh oh!~ We have a feeling that out of our 10 lovely hens, one of them was a ROOSTER! Just heard him learning how to crow this morning! They are 14 weeks - he/she has always been bigger then the others and bigger tail feathers. No big rooster coomb yet, when do they start to get more...
Longstory, typing with one hand to hold her in the other.... dog was by 3 week chick outside. No blood, wet head and not moving, but breathing. What do i do??
We are getting some chicks at the end of the month are doing the fencing for their outside run. We were thinking of doing the "floppy fence" method along the sides and then fishnet to go over the outside area.
What do you use?? And what works best?