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My run is 20 x 30 with a 4 x 8 coop inside. I had crows kill 5 of the 6 seven week old chick the very day I put them out. The survivor got named LUCKY for obvious reasons. Since the areal attack I have covered the run with 2 x 4 welded wire and now a coyote could walk across it and NEVER get...

I have 5 Arcana's that are 17 weeks old and 1 BO that is 13 weeks old--I found 3 light green eggs today--so much for 5 to 6 months

Don't get over excited over the Black Copper Maras----I have had 4 of them and once in a great while I would get a DARK egg but most of the time they were speckled and maybe at best darker tan similar to a Rhode Island Red. For what you pay for the BCM they are not worth having unless you just...

Im not who he sells to or if he is contracted for everything he mines--Il ask and get back to you

You have to be sure of the source of the Sweet PDZ, it is a mineral called Zeolite and some mines have levels of toxic chemical's. It is normally used as a deodorizer in horse stalls--no danger to horses because they don't and wont eat the fine granules whereas chickens will eat it like gravel...

Im new to the chicken game so if anyone out the could tell me if there is such a thing as a good breed of chicken that will sit and hatch some eggs? Thanks in advance for the help. Morris

Use a funnel or just tie the legs together and hang them--the important thing is to take a thin /narrow blade while holding the beak and shuv the knife through the bottom of the beak and out through the top of the head--this causes the blade to enter the brain killing them instantly--no...

Scramble them then put 3 in an 8 oz yogurt container with a piece of celophane on top and freeze--they are good for at least 6 months( while they are not laying much in winter

I have about 17 assorted birds --4 of which are Leghorn roosters (6 weeks) the rest are hens ranging from 1 1/2 years to 6 weeks. They all get along but now the roos are starting to crow and challange each other--too funny to watch--they sound like they have astma. Any way I have a 14 x 35 pen...

Last week one of my hens had a prolaps and the vent did the same --it looked very hurtful--so I took the advice of ome of our fellow readers and got our the latex glove--gently pushed both back in and submerged her rear in some COLD water while holding the parts in--you could feel the muscles...

welllllllllllllllllllllll--we dont eat the skin any more so as you can imagine I skin the bird firs--its like peeling a banana--cut off the head and feet and either open the skin on the back or breast and turn it inside out then cut around the vent a remove the guts--I split mine up the back boe...

I lost 5 rir ,a Ply Rock and a red sex link to crows 3 days ago so need less to say my 14x35 run is now covered. I have 7 Ameracuna hens that I just got yesterday, I had 2 rir and one each Ply rock ,red sl and 2 Cornish crosses that survived the attack ---now my origional giels--all hatched...

We just returned home from a 4 hour trip to return the grand kids and get some plants in Spokane ,Wa. On our inspection of the pen we found a pilse of feathers and 6 feet and a carcas that was missing the head and main body. We lost 5 RIR ,1 PR and 2 red sex links----they were hatched 2 days...