hahah omg good! im guessing it is one of the birds who is just starting because i got a very soft shelled egg today with no yoke. they have good quality layer feed but i think im going to supplement with some oyster shell. the weather also has been really odd here so im thinking that hasnt...
so i went to check the nest box today and much to my delight i had an egg!! ...but upon removing said egg i noticed this little guy. not sure what bird it's from, i have five that are all around laying age and im still trying to figure out what egg belong to what bird :]
seriously?! how cute...
AWESOME
thanks so much! i have to go to the feed store later this week for oyster shell so ill ask what they have that will work for my area, so excited for next spring, new plants, more chickens and some meaties! waahoooo
so, i just tucked the girls in for the night and unfortunately we don't have the ramp all set up yet so i went out to escort them into their raised coop. lo and behold they were already all snuggled up on the roost!
I'm so excited!!
so my question is, do they really need the ramp? i feel...
i used the welded wire for my run and it has worked out just fine! i found it on special at lowes 100' for a little under $60 and we actually ended up with leftovers to use for the garden next year, the one precaution we did take along with putting a small roof over half the run for rain...
well, now that our run is complete I've been contemplating putting some type of foliage for the chicken on top of the fencing i have run underground to prevent predators from digging in, here is a crude paint drawing of what I'm trying to do...
the black is the run skeleton the gray is the...
im no expert, but what about "eye worms"?
i found a video on youtube and the swelling looks similar, also, maybe the infection from the eye has moved towards the sinuses.
Hopefully you get everything figured out!
here is the video
GOOD LUCK!
HAHA he would pass out! ill be doing the butchering, plucking, cleaning AND the cooking! i expect the first bird to be the hardest but i have not stopped reading and researching the best methods :]
are you sure its not from their feathers? mine still have a little sheath over the part of the feather closest to the skin and when they groom it flakes off. I'm thinking that's what you see.
oh gosh you had me laughing! we just moved into our home 2 years ago and still have unpainted & un-finished rooms but the chickens are cozy!! thus far ive only spent about $300 for all the lumber and wire but somewhere in those trips my fiance snuck in a ceiling fan and paint for the kitchen...
i don't plan on using my current girls as meat chickens but after doing all the research i was thinking about getting some next spring, i just wanted to make sure i could first ;] with my luck id get 5 dinner chickens and never be able to do the job! haha
and i found some pictures on another...