does anyone have any advise for adding 6 week old chicks to my 19 week old chickens. I put one in there the other day and it was a horrible the 6 week old got roughed up pretty good before i could finally get to him
what do mites look like? I have a wooden picnic table and it has alot of tiny red bugs on it. I mashed a couple and the seem to have alot of blood in them for there size Also what do mites do to chickens?
I was at the hatchery about 2 weeks ago and they have everything you could want for poultry. The staff is knowledgable and friendly i got 7 black jersey giants 6 pullets 1 cockerial 6 pnew hamshire red pullets and 3 ameracana pullets all healthy and doing good. and there prices are very good also.
Anyone ever had a chicken that stuck there headthrough the poultry netting and get stuck? I had one last night that did. I went out to the coop about 11:00 to close it up and put them on the roost (they have been piling on the floor) and as i got to the bottom of the pile I went to grab the last...
I have about 7 inches between the top branch and the wall right now but I'm going to go with the 2x4's after reading about warming there feet in the winter. and i'll move it a little farther from the wall cause they seem kinda hunched over that close I'm thinking maybe a foot
Will play sand work? do i need to put anything else in to help with mites fleas ticks and so forth also what is de and do i need that and where would i get it?
My brooder is a storage contaner for a patio roughly 2foot x 5foot and 28 inches high but there only 2 weeks old so theres still plenty of room in there even with 16 birds in it. But on nicer days I'm going to put up a fenced in area in the yard so they can roam around a lil more. just thought...