16wk old pullet, normal yesterday morning. Free range on 1/4 privacy fenced acre. Went to put her up last night & she was uncoordinated with a slight head tilt to the right. Put her up in the coop for the night, was even more uncoordinated this AM. I am not convinced that it’s wry neck, as she...
Picked up some chicks yesterday at the feedstore & owner gave me this duckling for free because he isn’t walking & it’s legs stick straight out behind it. I tried hobbles last night after many hours of research & YouTube videos. Woke up this morning & removed the hobbles to evaluate & now it...
I'll make the adjustments this weekend with the help of my husbands, and they do have roosts, 1sq ft per bird... Can I just put two of the original eggs from earlier in the week in the nest boxes as they are small and probably won't get eaten this go-round.
They look like this:
Now, haven't secured them but I will try that. They always just dig everything out of them. The bad part about this is, they decided to sleep in the area where the nest boxes *should* go. This is our coop,and you can see on the far end close to the fence where we have...
Well, I started out with a nice 3" thick layer of shavings in the girls coop, and added straw to their nest boxes... I came out to check on them the next day and there were two random eggs in the coop - no where near the nest box area. They had completely moved all of the straw and actually...
If a cat is having issues breathing through their nose, they tend to have a decreased appetite. I hope everything checks out with kitten. Any possibility of kitten aspirating formula at any point? Any of the other litter mates showing symptoms?
So I noticed this morning, my very dominant hen is crowing.... Or trying her very hardest to mimic a rooster, which I do not have. How can I stop this?? All of my other hens are so quiet, except for JuWan (my neice named her). And I know it's a hen because I watched her lay an egg yesterday...
Wasn't prepared to open the coop today and find eggs, I had been putting off putting their best boxes in... I'm not sure how long these have been in the coop, but I might put them in their new best boxes to encourage the other ladies. I'm so excited!!!! I have 6 19wk old RSL...
Thank you! I just hope I'm fast enough to grab them... When I was researching breeds RSL seemed the way to go, so I thought. Little did I know they were going to turn into little a-holes. I wish I would have gone for a different breed.
Gah! It posted before I was done... Anyway.
Have I given them too much of MY space? As I cannot even go out into my backyard without them literally attacking me! They also have become incredibly vocal (more so than any chickens I've ever had). They are not laying yet, I need to make some...
I have 6 RSL hens, 19wks old... I've had them all since they were a day old. However, even as chicks they were always standoff-ish and never wanted to be held or anything of the like, no matter how much bribery was done. They are free ranged every day on a 1/4 acre, within my backyard (8ft...
I can't have Roo's where I live or else I would keep them all and feed them out for the freezer.. I also don't need any fertile eggs, only eggs for my personal consumption! Turns out I ended up with 17 Roo's in the shipment and I have two left...
That's a great idea, I'll reach out to my reptile owning friends. If I would have known that I was going to be sent all of these roosters, I would have driven the two hours there to pick them up! I feel like I shot myself in the foot... Lol. They are all eating and drinking, urinating and...
Thanks! I will try tomorrow, as I don't mind hanging onto them for a few days to help get my girls off to a warm start since we had a cold front blow in about an hour ago!! My husband was like WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?! Bless his heart. Lol