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Ok so our chicks turned a week Friday the temps at night are averaging fifty three and higher and I’m thinking bout moving them out the brooder and into the tractor. With a heat lamp above the kiddie pool I plan to add straw too. Anyone ever done this they are currently in a rabbit tractor...

Is it true that i can feed my Cornish crosses chick starter from start to finish. has anyone ever done this before.

Ok so we are getting 25 meat birds. We plan to put them in this chicken tractor. We built. We plan to place a half barrel with the heat lamp above the half barrel. I’m looking for thoughts. We have never lost any animal to predator other than. A hawk one time which was our fault as we left the...

So we have decided to raise meat rabbits colony style. If you have seen any of my other posts. You already know I love pallets so here is my colony set up. It’s placed inside the area we’re we are building our high tunnel livestock barn. In the mean time I plan to cover with tarp on rain...

Anyone here ever mix livestock duster with your chicken duster. I plan to use topsoil and mix some duster in it and don’t want to harm my chickens.

Ok so as I have posted numerous times on here we are building a high tunnel hoop house live stock as well as to raise our meat birds in connected to our existing chicken coop. Dimensions will be 20x32. I have attached photos of plans and an example picture. 7 x 32feet of the barn will be pens...

So the the subject line for this is confusing but here is what we have going on. Right now we have four chickens Leghorns and a RRR roo with 17 all female chicks coming in the spring. We have 7 Buff Orpingtons, 7 Buff Cochins and a Turkin which I'm super excited for. We got chose these breeds...

So we got our little guy outside and all he does is pace the one side of his pen is this normal. We have toys and treats in there for him. Or is this something to worry about

So I am getting three boys. And have some questions and since I love BYC. And now even more since there are pot belly pig threads. I wanted to know if my three boys coming today. I plan to build a pig house out of a IBC tote with a heavy duty mud flap door. And possible running a. Second...

so i have this very nice compost bin i have been working on since we bought the house last july. The other day i noticed that there hadnt been any dog poop in the dog poop bucket in a while so i check our doog poop area on the property. and it was barley used so i asked my 12 year old were he...

Ok so here is the scenario. Picture one I plan to install at the chicken coop to run a water heater in the winter as well as recirculating pump. Both will be winter only. If possible I would like to leave it up year round. But I know these extension cords are not meant to be leaft out year...

So today I started upgrading or remodeling our pallet chicken coop. I started by removing a divider wall I had in place between the main door and the coop itself. Reason for this is we are getting more baby chicks in may and wanted to open up more space. The total dimensions of the coop was two...

ok so i plan on upgrading my coops water and feed system and i was wondering if it was a issue with there only be feed and water sources in the coop itself. Yes on warmer days i would put additional water in the run. But im trying to keep water in the coop itself isolated for the winter months...

ok so i am getting seventeen baby chicks. I plan to house them in a hoop coop at 4-6 weeks old. I am getting them in may in Virginia so i do believe temps will be fine. the purpose behind this hoop coop is basically to House them next to my original flock to get them used to each other. IF I...

has anyone ever built a Hoop coop using left over fence on a roll instead of cattle panels. i plane to use 1/2 pvc for the bends and putting the fence on the the pvc and attaching it in the bottom to 4x4. This is going to be used for the 17 new chickens im adding to my flock so that i can...