My best friend and I are going to make a bulk order. Just not sure what is absolutely necessary to have on hand. 🙁. I live the middle of nowhere and no poultry vets nearby in town.
I forgot about to put foam in the corners to keep the chicks from crushing one another. I saw a tip somewhere here about that. My friend made a larger brooder out of an oval rubber feeder tub as well. Thank you for your help!
That’s what I figured but I was definitely surprised by it as I’ve never seen what they were shipped in until today. It makes sense though! This was the box.
My friend ordered sapphire gems from them three weeks ago all 10 are perfectly healthy still. And her order of 10 Americaunas arrived today. I cannot believe that they stuffed 10 chicks inside of a box that small. But you have to pick them up from the post office, still I think it’s sad that...
Incidentally I have lost two chickens last month and it seem to be the same type of issue where they act egg bound and they’re not digesting their food out of the crop but it’s not sour. And I did not feel any egg when I inserted a finger. And right now I have another chicken that seems to have...
It has soy in it 😑. That should probably say I don’t WANT to feed my girls soy. Is soy bad or No? There is a soy free version. I just started fermenting it. On sat three I feed them. It smells sweet by the third day and has bubbles. I feed them 1/4 each, so a lb dry for four of them and...
Is anyone not liking Nutrena layer anymore? My 4 girls were raised on Nutrena and have only had two bags of Purina layena before I switched back to a Nutrena. I generally will feed them wet food in the morning or maybe a little in the evening and also free feed dry. And a little bit of black...
I’m having this problem now. They grew up together, too 😞. The only change has been that my husbands teens are in town and I’ve not been in there as much, still several times a day but less than usual. I was late letting them Out of the coop a few times since time change and maybe too many...
Agreed. Were they accidentally in the bedding? Dried out? And that looks like a huge skull compared to the chicks. We have a lot of field mice and kangaroo rats here and they’ve not gone up against my girls that I know of. The field mice come out at night As l have caught them on camera...
I’m so sorry you have been sick and have this added worry. Maybe just tarps or even drop cloths. Will help a little. Plus the bleach water for your muck boots and cleaning tools. Summer is almost here; doesn’t it fade away when the heat arrives?
I caught a sparrow squeezing his little fat body...
Glad to hear they are doing well. :) We have an L shape as well. The good thing about my girls is that there are only four of them and they grew up together. So once they got past the initial or pecking order stage, they’ve not even looked sideways at one another. I stopped feeding the...