I would advise another enclose for your rabbit. When I put my rabbit in a smaller cage in my one of my past chicken coops, the chickens didn't seem to mind her as much and after a week payed her no attention. Since the ventilation wasn't proper and my chickens decided to dust bathe, I lost my...
How is your coop set up, do your birds have perches or anything to hop on? How many birds do you have in your coop and what are you feeding them in terms of protein?
I have scratch feed for my flock to encourage them to till their litter once I scatter it on the ground and in the past had a...
How much light a day dose your flock receive? Most hens need a minimum of 14 hours a day for egg production and with the sudden temperature fluctuations, if they start to lose a number of feathers I would suspect a late molt. Also the black specks on their legs could have been produced by scaly...
What values do you place on your birds?
Long story short, I have neighbors who have two dogs,both of which have killed one of my hens on separate incidents. They also have a relative temporarily staying with them who owns Dog 3, who has killed one of my breeders, one which I have no...
I hate to put otherwise healthy birds down but, if it is going to suffer in the future, one might as well get it over with; this may sound cruel but, one may feel worse later knowing that you could have ended its suffering sooner and more quickly.
I've hatched out a few chicks which walked...
I hope you will have better luck hand raising birds then I have had;I haven't had the best luck, but the one that I raised since he was about 13 days would happily greet me, everytime when I went by the lof,t he was probably the closest I had to a pet pigeon (he lived in my bedroom for a few weeks).
That's a bummer, there are usually enough crows around where I live (they seem just as noisy as my roosters) that seem to deter the hawks, plus there are a few pairs of Eagles around (they haven't touched my chickens yet). It always seems as if any favorites have a target on them.
My rollers...
I have read that the incubator temperature should range between 99 and 102 o Fahrenheit for doves with a humidity percentage of 51%. If the egg does hatch; this might be helpful. This is more complicated (very formal and uses more complicated terminology and comes into some things in great...
I never had doves but, had pigeons for a few years; I once tried incubating a pigeon egg that I found abandoned in my loft, I didn't have any success with it hatching. The temperature and humidity will need to be managed and the egg will also need to be turned every couple of hours. If it...
This is my present slightly over-sized coop and it's related structures.
To start off I would like to note that this coop is simply a functional draft for bigger and better ones to come as all of my coops are; this is just the forth of my setups; the First of my coops was a uninsulated 4' by...
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(A portion of your hens tail is cut off and the image looks a little fuzzy. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of camera do you use? )
Here is one of my past pigeons whose picture I took with my phone, wish the background was better (New Hampshire cockerel blob and telephone pole).
This was my kit loft when I had pigeons; my chickens have now taken it over. It is a 8' by 10' It has six windows; three on the right side, one on the middle of the left side and another on both the front and the back so plenty of light and ventilation. It has two pens with 30 perches in each...
I used to have pigeons but, decided that I would rather focus on chickens so I have since them sold all of my pigeons and much of their supplies; their loft has been taken over by chickens and although I miss watching my rollers fly, I feel I have made the right choice. I would like to go into...
Are there any breeders of White Plymouth Rocks around Rochester, Minnesota. My family is going to a wedding and I am hoping to find another line of White Plymouth Rocks for future genetic diversity within my coop.