Well we do live near woods and orange groves so I have no doubt there are rats around. The run is enclosed with chicken wire and buried at an L shape. I could cap off the feed at night since it is in pvc pipes but I dont think I have an issue at night. I am now curious if it is coming into the...
The chicken feed is left outside, however, it is in there run and it doesnt appear anything is getting in there at night (I dont see any holes). My son did say he saw a rat yesterday near our chicken coop so now I am curious if it is getting into the run during the day while the chickens are out...
Hey guys! So I currently have 18 chickens and 2 ducks and I feel like I am forever buying food for them! We are currently buying a bag of layer pellets a week - $23 for 40lb bag of organic feed and they are out for at least 10 hours a day free ranging. I definitely dont plan on limiting their...
I checked back since I turned the heat lamp off and the gnats are gone. I lost my thermometer so I am going to go back to the store and test out the temp in the coop. I live in FL so it is pretty warm outside. The chicks seem to be shaking their heads a lot more today than normal though.
Hi! We have (16) 4 week old baby chicks and just transferred them to the chicken coop yesterday. They were getting too small for what we had in the garage but we blocked off the run for now. I went to check on them this morning and found that there is gnats, or no-see-ums, swarming their heat...