I have had my brooder inside our outdoor building for a few months now. It has came to a point where it gets smothering hot inside the building and the chicks have died because of it. I am building an outdoor brooder box and I was wondering if building the sides out of tin would also become...
Today is day 21! Last night. I heard them chirping and at 6 this morning two of them had pips. They have made some progress but not too much. They are less active then they were. I have 7 eggs total from my 2 buff orpington hen and my splash hen. I see definitely wiggling in all eggs but two...
I have two goats a doe Nubian/pygmy cross and a pygmy buck. The buck is 5 months old and the doe is around 8 or 9 months old. I am new to goats and I do not know what is the best choice as far as worming or how often or if theres any other medications or any important things i should be doing to...
I got her yesterday and i believe shes 4 to 6 months old. The man said that she was a pygmy mix but he didnt know if it was with a Boer or Nubian or what. so I need help figuring this out. Thanks!
My 1 year old hen is the only free range hen i have the rest are in coops but lately shes been disappearing and only appearing every few days to eat and when she does come back shes clucking very loudly and running very fast to get to me. When i feed her she seems like she has been starving. I...
I have a rough collie pup, shes almost 8 months old and shes very rambunctious and still very much enjoying her puppy stage. I have 6 chickens so far and I want her to be okay with them as I continue to get more. When i take her out on a lead to see them she doesnt seem to mind my orpingtons as...
I love my buff orpingtons but I went to my friends to take one of her young roosters home with me and she had been breeding some blue and black orpingtons to get splash orpingtons.Im very interested in branching out to different breeds.
They reminded me of the lavender orpingtons. Do they have...
I had her since she was a few days old my neighbor gave her to me and he never told me what type of game chicken she was other than just saying she is a game chicken. she is about 10 weeks old maybe more but she is still small any one have any ideas on what she might be?
Its been nonstop rain where i am and my runs are a complete mess. i tried digging a ditch to make the water run off rather then enter the run. Its completly covered on top but since the amount of rain is so much the ditches dont work. how can i fix this?
Im getting a 8 week old orpington roo and i would like to go ahead and add him into one of my coops with lesser chickens in it. I have 2 orpington hens about 4 months and 2 old english game hens. I added one of the game hens a few weeks ago when her mother had sadly passed away she was only 5...
My neighbor gave me two old English game hens along with a game rooster. Before I owned the hens my neighbor said that they were broody. Now that I have them the hens haven't layed on their eggs. They will lay them in the nesting boxes but other than that they wont bother them at all. Does it...