I have 2 galvanized waterers and they both leak to the point of spilling. I level well but it seems the rubber washers don't seal to the metal. Both have been kept inside all last year and I use plastic in the summer. The metal waterers sit on my heater for the winter. Last year they both...
I have lost one roo from black spots on his wattles and comb. The other hens pecked him to death one day last month while I was out of town for a day. Now I see a hen with a black starting about the size of a small button. I can't find any creatures on her. It kind of looks like mold. Anyone...
Where do you find your barrels? I find them around here but they were used for antifreeze, cleaning fluids and car wash wax. I don't know what to use to cut the materials used in the old barrels to clean them out. I need to run water into the small heated shed to use this winter. With my new...
I figured she would put a stop to that. I didn't think a hen hatching and raising a family would put up with other chickens in and out of the nest box. Now I have to come up with something for housing for them...
I have this Mille Fleur that is around 32 weeks that went broody. I have decided to let her do her thing but a couple questions. There are none of her eggs she is sitting on and as the other hens lay in her nest box when will she stop letting this happen? I have marked the 4 eggs in there. Is...
I have 15 hens and just starting getting eggs. How should I price due the different sizes. Most run in the small size. I know they will get bigger but for now what should I do?
I heard from the farmer up the street to give them a pumpkin a few times a year. I have done this for 4 years now and no worms. Matter of fact the small feed store offers free pumpkins in the fall. Maybe Iam just lucky. I am a clean nut though.
I have a 8x12 section of my barn I use for the chickens. 8x8 is the size of the existing coop and I am going to add a 4x8 section. Should I take the end wall down to enlarge the coop or leave the wall in. The wall has a 3x6 man door and a 1x1 chicken door in it. I don't know if I will ever be...
I will move the chicks to the coop tomorrow. I never thought about the hen area of heat. You are so right. I have only once seen a hen hatch and care for a new flock. It was amazing to watch. I hope everyone can experience that if only once. The miracle of nature. Thank you John
I have 17 chicks that are 12 days old. As I can now see I built the brooder to small, 2'x4'. I have an attached coop, cage that is 4'x4'x6' that is part of the outside coop. I can put a couple 200 watt heat lamps in there that will bring the temps up to the 70's a couple feet off the floor and...
I believe the dust comes from feather development. I like to look at is as the feathers grow in little tubes and as the feathers grow the tubes fall apart exposing the feathers thus make dust. I keep the brooder in the barn where I store my rc airplanes and at times the dust gets so bad you...
Anyone have a good and cheep way keeping their chickens from sitting on the fence. My run has a 4' fence that contains the flock and for some reason they like to sit there. From time to time a couple jump out and the only way I have getting them in is throwing scratch in the run then hold open...
Thank you for the lime lesson, well appreciated. As far a planting go's I have a second run about the same size. 25x60 One run is on the north side and the other is on the south side with a covered hallway between the two. I just gate one side or the other and I can rotate them that way...
I would like to sweeten the soil in the run to encourage new grass growth. The chickens have eaten the greens to where the run is nothing but bare. I was thinking of lime then planting winter wheat to do a couple things. 1 more food come spring and 2 keep the mud down. My run is on a hill so...