The link you added looks like a great way to work it out. My chickens free range and have places to hide around the area. Luckily I live in the country and don’t have to worry about neighbors opinions. There is an older coop that I started with eight years ago, that they sometimes spend time in...
There are 8 assorted nesting containers, their favorites are two plastic dog food buckets and a Home Depot 5 gallon bucket laid across the lower level of the roosting posts that span one side of the barn. The little Mama is in a brooder cage that is about 4’x4’ and a two foot height, with one of...
I have a mixed flock of 18 adult chickens. 1 rooster that is an Easter egger, 2 blue laced red Wyandotte’s, 1 black laced golden Wyandotte, 1 buff Orpington, 1 silkie/easter egger mix, 1 hamburg, 1 black sexlink, 1 red star, 4Rhode Island reds,4 Easter eggers, and the bantam Cochin. Then the two...
New update on my poor baby. Apparently my little darling is also an escape artist.
Mama and babies are and have been in a cage located in my garage. She and babies have been fine in this cage, no mishaps. This little late comer is gonna be a challenge. It escaped through the wires and was loose...
Update on my poor baby, it is up walking on it’s own, still a bit wobbly but gaining strength rapidly. Noticeably smaller than its siblings, fitting in and all looks promising. Snickerdoodle is an excellent Mom.
Thank You, Silviethecochin. My little darling is doing better this morning. It has a little chick chair I constructed out of tissues,tape and a dixie cup. I also had some savachick electrolites that I have been giving it in a syringe. I had it in a basket on a heating pad with some washcloths to...
I have a Bantum hen that just hatched out chicks this week. There are eleven chicks all together, 4 had hatched when I got home from work Monday and by the time I came home Tuesday there were 6 more. There were two eggs that had not hatched yet, I candled them, one was infertile, the other was...
I started with Rhode Island Reds and have added, Barred rocks, Bantam Cochins, Golden Comets, Buff Orpington, and now my last 6 are Ameracaunas. I did have some ducks, coyotes got them.
they are actually in a wire cage in the garage. the windows are open. Up until two days ago, they were on newspaper base with straw that I changed weekly. I have now gotten rid of the newspaper and straw. this is how I have raised most all of my chicks after the first six back in '13. the only...
Can my chicks catch strepp from my grandkids?
My 8 week old chicks have been fluffed up and stumbling around in their brooder. I have lost two of them. Three of them appear to have perked up some, they are eating again and not as fluffed up. In order to treat them, I started by adding apple...
Wow, have I been gone a while. I have four Buff Orppington ducks, One Drake(Daffy) and three female ducks( Daphne, Delilah, and Daisy) that are actively working to procreate. Up until the last big storm that came through, Daphne was sitting on 30 eggs in a water barrel adapted to be a place for...
I have seen Donald and Daffy interact with the females and they seem to be civil so far. As far as interacting with the chickens, they pretty well keep to their clicks and all get along pretty well when it's feeding time as well. so far so good. I'll be glad when the ducks start laying eggs also.
It started last spring of 2015, I bought three little ducklings and four little barred rock pullet chicks from Atwoods, to add to my flock of three rhoade island red hens and a rooster. I was not exceptionally particular what kind of ducks they turned out to be, I was hoping they were pekin...