Hello
just wandering on Meat chickens if they pick at the ground and need to move the coop daily or weekly .
I have never raised meat bird so want to plan what work is needed .
I have 2 embden geese .Just starting to lay eggs .I locked them in the building because of being really cold .Last night I had two eggs .So my two geese are not a pair .?When I got them they were to be a pair .The Geese are only around 11 months old .I have never been able to tell the sex .But...
Wow lots of replies .thanks for the input .I am going to go find some pullets to get.then bill the cost of the birds and the egg money not made .(my kids have the eggs sales ).I probaly can not find the breeds I had so will have to order chicks t oget those back .Also two of the girls came back...
Have a big problem .The guy up the road (around 1 mile) dog broke into my chicken coop and killed Lots of the hens.
He was watching his sons sog and he got away from him .I caught the dog in action .Once I found the owner. He need to make good on these birds
He already came and fixed the fence...
Last night around 10.00 pm I went out to check on the chickens .Most nights one of the Geese goes up the ramp and goes in the coop.There is a automatic chicken door .The geese where some where else .I walked into the coop and I see something has been chewing to get out.Which made me mad because...
I have a pair of geese ( do not know male female other then there are 2 of them )
They are free range .they hang out with the chicken .
When time for the chicken to go in one of the geese go into the coop
.The other one wants nothing to do with going up the ram .
this is not a problem but once...
I switched my bait in the live traps to marshmellows .I have caught 6 racoons in 7 nights .
Before I used cat food and only would catch one every other week .I have not lost any
Chickens yet and would like to keep it that way .
I have 2 Goslings around 5 weeks old .At what age can I let them roam on there own .I keep them in a pen right now and They do not like it .Since the goslings have been with us for a month dothey count on us too much ?.If they have a shelter will they come back?
After a few weeks the goose would pick on the chick tails.The goose is now in its own pen .He cried all the time so the big softy I am
I went and got a second goose to put in there.
When I leave to go to work in the morning I take tall grass and tie it together and hang it down into the box .They pick at it all day .I figure keeps them busy .11 hours later they have it all picked except the part they can not reach .
The Chicks will be fine .go have a good time .
Hello
First time posting but have recived lots of good advice by reading the posts .
I have 30 week old chick in the brooder .
My friend brought over a week old gosling .
So far everything is going good .
Will this work or am I asking for problems as the goose get older .
thanks
Brian