Ok... so all these designs are awesome but how do you keep the pools clean!?!?
I had just one duck for a while and he trashed the kiddy pool (the ten dollar ones that are only maybe three feet in diameter), i had to clean it daily,
I want to put in a bigger pond-ish pool, perhaps like three by...
it is puffy, its not pussy, and its not crusty, no nose discharge, no damage i can see, she can hardly open it, can hardly see, its semi firm swollen. i peaked in to the inside of her mouth, and i saw that the top of her mouth looks cracked in to two.
please help
and i would post a pic but i...
i haven't noticed any molting, and their run is 99% heavy shade, they have lots of water, and it was just one day no eggs, they didn't even give me a warning. it wasn't very fair or nice of them...
what would stop all 18 hens from laying the same day? nothing i can think of has changed, i cleaned da coop yesterday, and scrubed all the feeders and waters, and rice is still broody, even after i took the rock...
I at first thought they were hiding them again, but nope. the run has a 10 foot fence that raccoons cant climb and there are no spotting's of pray,so i don't think they are getting eaten, they usually lay the eggs in the beds, in the coop. the coop is like a small barn. ive searched every inch...
I started giving my gals garlic in their water to help prevent mites and such. i use it on my horse for fly prevention and it works so well. (thats where the vampire and garlic thing came about) but ive done some research and its said fruit can and cant be good for them, so i figure use it as...