question...
I have two 150w brood lights currently and it's below 0 here im in northern maine on canada border
I was wondering if a 150 W CERAMIC INFARED HEAT EMITTER IN PLACE OF 150 W BROOD LIGHT will work better?
I have two 150w broods on my girls.. should I use the ceramic in place of one...
Does the hackle on a buff brahma indicate that breed?? My egger has same hackle (looks like buff brahma but it's an egger..(green legs n blue eggs) and she used to have partridge markings but now has a hint of partridge/pheasant/quail markings with blue smoked feathers flecked in... blue n...
Is this is why I don't have that many predators the only one I have that gives my cat issues is a red fox and my cat fights with him constantly..
my chickens are undercover and in a roaming pain safe and sound from the fox but the pine marten and the ermine can get into their Coop so my cat...
LOOKING FOR RARE OR ORNAMENTAL SEXED CHICK (looking for a cockerel) WOULD PREFER BANTAM BUT IM OPEN TO THIS.. I LIVE IN NORTHERN MAINE DOES ANYONE SHIP TO ME?? IF NOT WHAT'S OUT THERE FOR FERTILE EGGS?? *PHOENIX BANTAMS *SILKED EGGERS OR *AYEM CEMANI (MAY CONSIDER SILKIES)
In search of that...
miss this puss!!!
He would wait at my bed room window staring at 6 am so when I woke he'd tell me GRAIN!!
MY DoG N CHICKEN.. BEST FRIEND.. THOSE THAT BEG TOGETHER STAY TOGETHER
CHICKEN GUARD OLLIVER
I have more fun photographing my chickens.. never in my life would I have thought that chicken raising would be so fun.. I've head horses cows dogs cats but never chickens And I wonder how I ever got along without them... here's some (mug) face shots I love to take.. they make me laugh so hard...
this is baby bella who has graduated to bella but originally named after the portabella mushroom (she was baby bella mushroom) but now she's just bella mushroom.. she was smaller here so she's a pear..
She's short legged n fat unlike my other 2 blk aussie who are tall n large.. she's short n...
I currently have EE blk austrolorps and nh reds I'm looking for a top notch breed for cockerel ..large sized..hearty for extreme N Woods Maine long winters and one that can breed with my pullets.. for EEs I have a blue/silver smoke, a lavender/blue/blk smoke, and partridge colored EE pullet (3...
My CHICKENS ALL BUT ONE ARE PULLET LIKE YALL SAID I'M SO SORRY...UGH.. yall were right about my partridge EE (the one I thought for sure was a he and the one I thought was a she is a he lol) bad at this but i do know now..proven seen the deed even the fertilized eggs to prove it but Out of 8...
when my boyfriend said he was going to use pop up tent poles to make a roaming pen I was intrigued, so He did just that.
In under 2 hours we had a roaming pen with chickens in it.. happy as clams in the ocean..
After four of my chicken's (almost five thank god for my cat who saved one of them)...
Fox took four but at first thought it was my cat who had guarded these chickens since hatch date plus why when they are 6 months now and not while babies??? it wasn't him he actually has injuries from fighting fox off but when we saw a chicken attacked my bf saw three cat on fix on chicken I saw...
Realized cambell duck eggs are worth some money if someone knows what they are they will buy but lotsa Amish where I am in northern Maine so not much selling round here but anyone ever sell them or buy cambell eggs in North woods or Maine at all?? I have two girls be a while yet but was curious
Have almost two wk old chicks what is the lowest temp they can handle outside in an enclosed coupe with enclosed cozy tire (rigged up with propping open the inner part of tire) also with cedar shavings such by the way work best so far for heat retention and the tire?? That speaks for itself that...
I have far North east laying breeds but only 10 days old I have nh reds, comets, americaunas, black astraulorps and one I dunno what 1 is it was given to me same day as others cuz one chick died two hrs after getting home so then there came hammer that's it's name it's older a but by a few days...