Peehead's coop
I used cedar board-n-bat for a rustic look.
The dimensions are 8 x 4 if I remember right and betwteen 6 and 8 feet high. I put it about a foot above the ground to give the girls more ground space and to deter rodents and preditors from living underneath.
I...
A couple of days ago I noticed my 2 yr old brahma limping. I picked her up to inspect her legs and couldn't find anything wrong with them, but was surprised to find a lump on her back, a very large lump under her feathers, about 3 inches wide! The lump is hard and fixed, the skin is normal...
Its disheartening, but my ducks hate me too. ( it really hurt my feelings at first) No matter how much time I spent with them and tried to calm them down, they still clawed and squacked at me.
Now that they are a little older they allow me me to get closer but never close enough to touch them...
Perhaps its the flavor....I'm on a well, and our water is really good, at least I think so.... or perhaps they are simply lazy.
I have a feeling I'm not going to be keeping them together, It just doesn't seem healthy for them to drink dirty water. And I don't want to change the pool out...
A while ago I got some ducks for the first time...Been learning a lot.
I was thinking that I would keep them with the chickens, and with that have had to make changes with the chicken's set up, trying to find what works best for both. I leave the waterer in the coop like I always have, where it...
Thanks for giving me a sense of hope....I've been going about my business in the yard which involves walking by them, I can walk by fairly close without them taking off. And I can sit within about four feet and they will feel comfortable enouph to continue preening with me nearby. .
Your...
About a month ago I picked up a couple of Pekin ducklings from the feed store. They seemed so skittish whenever I reached in to change the water and feed them. So I would hold them to try to calm them down..I wanted them to understand I wasn't going to harm them. They won't relax. Now they...
Wow, aside from the outside color, "alien christmas egg" looks exactly the same......hmmm.
Mine may have not been laid today, I got home late last night so I didn't get the eggs yesterday, so maybe that is why the color looks different.
By the way, thanks for the link. That was an...
I went out to get eggs this afternoon and found this in the nest box....It broke open fairly easily,
Is this a tumor? What the heck is it?
I couldn't tell which one of my hens it might have come out of. They seem fine.
I finally took some pictures of my coop. I built it a few years ago so I don't have any "in progress"pics. I didn't have a clear plan, sort of just went with it. Just took ideas that I liked from other coops but the most important thing was that it had to be easy to clean...
I have a flock of thirteen chickens and a few of them have me concerned.
I noticed a couple of the older ones seemed listless and their feathers ruffled. I checked their wieght and and they seemed pretty light, thier breast bone was prominant so I wormed them just to eliminate that question...