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Once you have your chicken house all secured so skunks can't get into it, you may consider moving the chicken door that lets them go to the pen up a couple of feet off the ground. Then put two simple ramps made of boards on the inside and outside. Chickens don't mind climbing the ramp, but...

Here's Jessie (blue heeler), keeping one eye on her chickens, and the other on her bone.

I've been catching lots of mice lately. Rather than throw them in the trash or otherwise try to get rid of them I've started giving them to my chickens. They seem to love them. As soon as the mouse hits the ground a chicken grabs it and runs off with it, with other chickens chasing along trying...

Thanks Miss Lydia. From that link I found this: http://sites.google.com/site/moodysbantams/poultry-health-1/crop-impaction I will try it and see how it goes.

One of my Americauna hens seems to be clogged up. Her craw, (the bag where the food first goes) is very large. She kicks at it and seems to be very distressed. It looks to me like she isn't moving her food to the next stage. Maybe she ate something that is obstructing the passage. Is there a way...

My 4 RIR hens look pretty bad, like they're always moulting. They've looked like this for some time, so I don't think they are actually moulting.They are lively and are laying well, but they have bald scruffy areas. Are they infested with a bug of some kind? What to do?

I have one goat who has a bad reaction to the CD&T shots. He develops a big bump that takes a loooooong time to go away. My goats are wethers, who carry packsaddles. These things have a straps that go around the front of the chest, around the chest underneath, and around the backs of the hind...

One of my RIR hens got a small wound on her hip, and the others started pecking at it until it was a bloody hole about the size of a cigarette filter. So I made a little quarantine pen for her, with some water, to keep her away from the others for a while. I smeared some 3 way antibiotic...

Goats are wonderful if your lifestyle and homestead are compatible with them. - Don't get A goat. They need company, so a pair or more is better. - Unless you want to be milking the goats twice a day, every day, for about 9 or 10 months per year, then fugget-about getting milk does. Then...

Yes, goats can be trained to pull carts and carry packs. There are 2 yahoo groups dealing with these topics where you can connect with people who are into this sort of thing. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/packgoat/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CartGoats/ Wethers (neutered males) make the...

Petie made it! He's eating again and going for short hikes. I was really scared. He didn't eat anything at all for 3 days after coming home from the vet. I was afraid he was going to just slowly starve to death. I found that his temperature was normal (around 101.5 degrees) so I assumed that...

Here are 2 suggestions: 1. Others have suggested re-inforcing your chicken pen & house, and that's very good advice. Also put up motion sensor lights if you can. When the light comes on the coyotes will probably bug out. If they get used to the lights and don't run off, then they make easier...

We lost 4 of our 5 hens this winter to an owl. I never saw him/her in the act, but during the 2 weeks it took our chickens to disappear, there was an owl hooting in the trees nearby at nite. Since the chickens went into their house at nite, the owl had to be getting them during the daylight hours.

My best buddy, a 13 yr old heeler cross, spent last week in the hospital with pancreatitis. This was brought on, I think, by eating a pizza he found. He survived, and came home, but still isn't eating anything. He drinks and pees ok, but won't eat anything. It's now 1 week since he ate anything...

I have been using a horse-type fly repellent on my goats. I spray a little around their legs, backs, and butts, and then wipe some around their eyes and ears with a cloth. It gives them some relief, and I hope it's ok. Mine are wethers (packgoats), not milk goats. I use so little that I doubt if...

Where I live the predator problem is similar to yours, except we also have wolves. I keep my goats and chickens in a strong, high pen, and hope for the best. Lions that kill local pets and livestock get hunted down, here. My next door neighbor is the local lion hunter that people call on when...

Bluey, at what range are you shooting these racoons? If you have shots within 30 yards, I'd vote for a 12 ga shotgun with #2 or BB duck loads. Those will blow a racoon right out of the tree and he'll be dead before he hits the ground.. But, since the discussion has wandered into deer rifles it...

Chatychick's advice is good. I will only use cattle panels (5' high, 4" square) for goat fencing any more. Anything else is waste of time and money. I stand them up and attach them to posts every 4' or so. Goats can stand on them and not damage them. They can't get their heads thru them and get...

Looks like a gopher (bull) snake. Unless you are terrified of snakes, he should be welcome at your place. Besides eating mice and other nasty vermin, they are said to keep rattlesnakes away. It also looks like he's crawling across a gopher hill. If Mr. Snake could get down into the tunnel, that...

Last winter an owl got all but 1 of my hens. Now old Thelma, a RIR, is all by herself out there. She lays an egg every day or two, but has no company. New chicks are on the way, tho. But Thelma has started crowing like a rooster!!! That is so weird. Maybe the complete lack of other chicken...