hello ive been a member of byc for 5 or 6 years now ( i think ) im an aussie i live in sydney
i find this byc a great place to come and have a chat , i noticed my american buddies are chatter pots like i LOL
im also member of an aussie chook forum its great too ....dont leave and forget...
no more nests then 10 would be needed
thats such a large area i would had some large stones and some shrubs for them to scratch around and under and in summer they will rest under the shrubs
looks really nice...love the rooster thing...u did a great job
love the little windows btw-
if your chicks are huddleing away from the heat sauce that suggest that theres either a draft in the brooder or they are too hot under the lamp and too cold not under it
omg...i just looked up the died chicks...it made me sick to my stomache....its disgusting
wich ones would you want to save?
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/South%20India/Vijayawada/ColoredChicks1.jpg
last year at easter we didnt have any chicks or ducklings and but we had...
that sounds more like a criminal in a crappy prison system then a well cared for chicken.
This thread is very frustrating , i feel so much for poor corn, i really do, ok look at it this way and keep it in m ind next time you lock up corn in his cell
your woken up taken outside for 15...
lol...ill go pluck one out of the wild and hope it doesnt hate my enough ot kick me with its legs or strike me with its beak....THEN ill explain to my neibours that one of my chickens found some steroids and ate them all...LOL
parakeets arnt that easy to get rid of here...you get between $1.50 to 3 buks a bird andt they pet shop will sell them for between 15 to 45 dollars. and thats if your lucky enought to find a store that will take your birds...i have an old parkeet cage thow...perhaps i could put some of those...
i have a rabbit...sorta she got out of her cage and moved into the chicken coop and has gone slightly feral*ill be fixing her cage upp next week when i get everything i need*
GOATS id love goats but my parents wouldnt...the avari is a good idea...
perhaps ill just have to wait till i move out...
its good that corn is doing better.you say after eating the chicken food he is feeling better.I hope you know the "soil" is a constant need its not a one of thing.
silkies need extra vitamens then regular chickens.
mutlivitamen in the water will help corn very much.
corn needs natural...
i just went to get onto the old byc and i got a pagen from google saying
The requested URL /bbackyardchickens was not found on this server
whats that all about?
why dont you get her several of these rocomeded breed so she can tell them apart name them and relise there all different?
one breed i would steer from are silkies ...they are great gentle quiet birds with great personalities...but they have health needs other chickens dont and they odnt have a...
im so sick of this crappy summer heat...ive already started to think how im going to insulate my coop this winter(i got a new much larger shed over the summer break)
im going to put a tarp on the outside roof and then im going to use the silver duck tape and line the inside of the the ceiling...