My roo got really bad frost bite but his comb was 3-4 inches tall before that mabye thats why they get hit so hard. I had a heat lamp in the barn to help but I guess it was not enough. Its an old drafty non insulated. Barn. So I would guess if you want to show you would need an insulated/...
So get this I went to oklahoma to pick up sweedish flower hen chicks for my friend ashly now she doesnt know if she wants them meep! Guess I need to get busy and build another pen I have set up this old kitchen cabinet thats in the barn for brooding but they grow quick.....orphaned chickens
wondered if that would be an issue ive been free ranging mine but they go back and forth from the barn to outside through out the day and our eggs are always in the nestboxes so when they lay they head back does any one elses chickens do this?
they use local cream mixed into local whole grains and the birds are kept in dark no sunlight crates for 4-6weeks before that they soley free range and are given only very little food but are given ample pasture to free range on
The last post was a smaller water fall in sedan ks with in a few miles of the larger one at a park called the hallow.. its fed by an undergroundcreek so the smaller one only flows after a good rain or so im told..
Butcher falls is the largest waterfall in kansas infact there are 3 waterfalls with in about 15 -20 mile radius its kind of fun to see them all butcher falls is on 99 between moline and sedan at red buffallo ranch (its free and open to the public untill dark they even have cabins at the exorbant...
Totally not chicken related but my sister and her daughter visited today and we went to butcher falls and I took some neat pics note children playing on the rocks
I came home yesterday to a flood did any one else get crazy swamp like rain the water was wading a foot deep to get to the barn I checked all the corners as I was wooried water was so deep it would come into the dirt floor it did in too corners any one have any suggestions on preventing this in...
I also read between 14-16 hours of light a day its because where there from south America it replicates what would be more standard toward the equator. They need a patern day/night at least 8hrs dark I just have heat lamps with a flood bulb and it lights a pretty good area then if I needed heat...
Hi all im glad im not the only one verging on an angry nervous breakdown.. ive been working on getting sheep since jan. I was going to get a ladys flock of icelandics in wi. I was waiting on my cd to roll over and she knew that so ive been getting fencing ready as weather permited got a way...