The fecal test was negative, the chickens are not eating like they did. One thing I did was changed what I was feeding them, the vet seems to think that is my problem
Updated with pictures
I forgot to mention that I was averaging about 26 eggs a day, that dropped down now to about 9 eggs.
And they are not eating as much of their feed. We are going to take a poo sample to the vet today
hello all, I have a question. in about the last week, when i go into the coop to clean the poop off of the poop board, the pdz under the roost is very wet like they are peeing instead of pooping. it is so wet i have to toss out the pdz. i am wondering what i should do, any suggestions would be...
thanks for all the replies.
I clean the poop boards using cat litter scoop also, I clean them every morning so there's no build up Orr smell, is PDZ the same as stall fresh?
I have a question for everyone using poop boards under their roots.
right now I am using stall fresh from TS,
on the poop board kinda costly, what are you using on your boards? I thought about sand,
I look forward to your responses
thanks
Jack
No I did not insulate any walls, I live in Pa. We have some cold winters also , the chickens do fine. The poop board really works out great, easy to clean up, I clean it every morning , helps keep the flies away. I came out off the side of the coop about 12 ft. And enclosed the weather side and...
I thought I would keep them in the barn until they feathered out, around 5 weeks, then I figured on letting them out to free range, I'm thinking by 5 weeks they should pretty much know where to go for the night.
But trying this is all new to me.
I have always put young chicks from brooder to...
I currently have a flock of approximately 42 mixed hens in our coop right now.
I want to get approximately 25 new chicks, and keep them in a separate area of our barn to roost , nest, and feed.
My question is,
If I keep them separated like that, will I be asking for trouble when I let them all...
I don't want to give them more light . All my older hens laid at right around 18 or 19 wks,
I have a total of about 47 chickens now.
This is the first group of chicks that will be ready to lay in the winter that I have all the others started laying when the weather was nice. And days were longer