We are in Las Vegas, Nevada. We definitely have coyote, hawks, mountain lion, maybe bobcats… we are definitely going to build them a large run and enclose it. We didn’t think we had that many predators to worry about but maybe we do?🤷🏼♀️
We are pretty sure it was a coyote because we saw foot prints that looked like a canine print in the area of attack. We live in Las Vegas so we don’t have any raccoons here but maybe bobcat or mountain lion.🤷🏼♀️ We are kind of out by the mountains and there is some desert around us although it...
Thank you. We were so sad, my daughter and I just cried. They got my favorite sweetest Orpington,Carmel,who loved to snuggle me all the time. I will definitely have to look into hardware cloth. Thanks for the advice.
I do have oyster shells available to them but a few have still had soft shell eggs and had it break inside of them. They just started laying not to long ago so I don’t know if this is normal or not? Maybe they are not eating enough oyster shells on their own?🤷🏼♀️ I don’t know.. I’m a new...
Hi everyone! Newbie chicken owner here! We just got chickens in May and have raised them from babies. We started out with 10 hens (or so we thought…they were sexed in the store we bought them from) but we ended up having two grow into roosters! I adopted two more hens from someone in town who...
I am wondering the same question. I have a lot of grower feed that I’m wondering if I can add stuff to make it a layer feed because my chickens started to lay eggs and a few had soft eggs. Can I just add calcium to it or is there other ingredients that need to be added as well?