My very first 4-h project was a banty hen Miss Cluck. I had her in a small coop in the back yard for over 2 years. I would sit in her house and do my home work after school every day. One day I came home and some dog had torn threw the chicken wire on her run and all i had left of my best friend...
I have been trying my hand at hatching this year and loving it! I have a chocolate laced? polish roo I call Lord Gadiva who has been mixing it up with my buff o some rir and my Jersey G's
This is Lucy at 7 weeks!
And these lil cutties are two weeks old!
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I'm glad you'll be joining us!! I would say bring your hatching eggs if you have some because there will be a lot of local traffic as well as people from the swap so you never know what people will be wanting. As far as preordering eggs from someone on the swap thread, probably a good...
I like to hold my chick but at about 3 to 4 months I'm not in to trying to pick them up and I don't like them pecking anywhere near me... I had a very not cool uncle who gave me a very healthy fear of large brids I don't do geese or turkeys at all! I thought raising my own would make it better...
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my ckickens love watermelon but will not under any circumstances eat carrots
Mine will run for you if they think your going to give a carrot to one of the horses... They want all the carrots!
Today I bought a larger tote which is what I've been using as a brooder with a heat lamp over the top, but I needed the bigger one as I wanted more time for the chicks to be in the house (studio with no full floor to ceiling walls) before I took them out to the small coop that is inside the big...
If you do put them outside I have found that 11 is the magic number for a heat lamp (at least here in Oregon) anymore and someone always seems to get squeshed to death under the chick pile... it's a very sad way to lose a chick but mine have been outside since they were 3 weeks old to make...
I found out last night my two week old babies do NOT like brussel sprout leaves... They live in my living room right now cause I hatched to many to far apart and I don't want fighting so I have been giving them my trimings from dinner and so far they like every thing but the brussels
We have a new bob cat out for my chickens last year I lost a few before we finally got the bad kitty with the 12 gauge and soon there will be another one joining this one in the ground.
this was last years.
Are you saying that rats will eat chickens??? Or just worried about the chicken food? Or them eating the eggs? We put Bite Bar outside the coop where the chickens can't get to it and posion them so that we don't have a problem with them. It works on Oregon rats:/
My barn cats run from my hens even the chicks now that the roo has decided that they are indeed his! I might add he's a better mouser then the cats too! Always bringing his girls a mouse to eat.
There is an oniment they sell for horses called swat, comes in clear or bright pink, but it's to protect from flies and dirt. You can buy it at any feed store for round ten bucks. You put it on after you have cleaned the area out and medicated it.
Hope that this helps!
I'm so excited that the swap will be in Corvallis! I don't know if anyone would want any but I have been hatching eggs from my hens (rir, buff o, and giant Jerseys crossed to my ubber fantastic polish roo I call Lord Gadiva , he's a chocolate lace). The oldest I have so far due to a hawk nest in...
I have WHAT in my yard? :
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I have been all but never successful in herding them back in before dusk. I just let them forage for an hour and they go in on their own at dusk.....
I have mine all trained to come when I call chicken snacks, after which I throw scratch or horse grain on...
Hi I heard about the chicken stock from a nice lady at Costal Farms when a friend and I were getting are 3rd set of chicks this season... We don't have any we want to swap but may want to get a chick or two and I was wondering I make home made lotion would anyone be maybe interested in swaping a...