Thanks for your reply. Those are my concerns as well. I also had concerns about egg eating snakes having easy access as well. We are in Maryland, so our winters are cold. Mild compared to other locations, but still cold. I didn't feel that even with a skirting that there would be enough...
We are just about to start building our chicken tractor which is being designed to use the frame of an old 8x4 trailer frame. My husband and I have different opinions about the flooring. I believe that it should have a solid bottom covered in some sort of inexpensive sheet vinyl. He wants to...
I should clarify that when I said that the ducklings were in "the same set up" that it is a SEPERATE set up, but the same style. All are 3 and 4 weeks old at this point. Thanks for the links :D
I can sort of understand the ducks...still it seems like a LOT of water to have a party with between 11 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. when they don't do anything like this during the day. And it doesn't explain what is happening in the chicks box. We get up and the waterer is still upright, but...
I have 3 and 4 week old chicks in a brooder box that I have made out of a giant rubbermaid storage container. We have 2 pekin ducks in the same set up. 2 nights this past week we have awakened to find the waterers completely empty and the bottoms of the crate full of water. Same nights, same...
Looking for a template for a way to keep track of what birds we have, where they came from, when they were born, etc. Also for tracking production, expenses and such. I could come up with something on my own, but I'm new and probably not thinking about some things that in hindsight I might...