So a question...we inherited a rooster (about 2 weeks ago) that has been free range his whole 7 months of life and has NEVER been in a coop or introduced to a coop. He sleeps in a tree and will not go anywhere else. It is getting cold here at night and will snow sometime soon (high 30's mid 40's...
Quick Update.....I had to cancel my order for chicks this year. Last year it was due to my husbands medical crisis and this year it is due to my health. Im thinking Chickens are just not in the cards for us now or in the future. SOOOO im gonna live vicariously through all of you!
Hello!!! I have been gone awhile and am back so I thought I would reintroduce myself. I live in the Mountains of Arizona with my husband and son. We until last year had never owned chickens. We got a small flock of Bielefelders from Cackle last year (lost a hen and rooster within the first week)...
Due to last years situation (hubby got sick and we had to rehome our whole flock of Bielefelder's) we ordered from Cackle again this year. We are expecting 5 Barred Rocks (4 hens 1 rooster), 5 Rhode Island red hens and 6 easter eggers. We ordered all bantams and are expecting them to hatch...
Thank you I just started some containers in the freezer for Ice and one of them is an old gallon ice cream container :yesss: I am also using some smaller container to put in the water containers. I have 4 small ones in the run (one has electrolytes in it) and a big one that holds 5 gallons of...
They can not get into the bedding but they can get down in the dirt. We are going to be putting sand down this weekend so hopefully they will be able to stay cool with that and we can wet it down and I hear that will help.
I wish there were different calendars ( see below) being made as there are so many wonderful pics admitted. I am glad I don't have to choose :confused: as we would have so many different ones instead of just one :fl :lau
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I have had my chicks out for about 4 weeks now and they are 10 weeks old (rooster is 8 weeks old) They have been doing great until this week when they (not all) have started panting. We have several waterer's out for them, also one waterer out with electrolytes, a pool with water, shade cloth...
We went through the same thing and we treated our whole flock after we lost the first chick. We ended up losing another one 4 days later which was on the same day we started treating with the corid. All our other chicks are doing great and have recovered nicely. I know it saved my chicks...