Search results for query: *

I have a nursery coop next door to my main coop in my barn. My chicks are now 16 weeks old, so this week, I opened the door to the barn when let the hens/roosters out to range. My group has options - a pasture out one side of the enclosed run, a pasture out the other side, and through the...

I tried incubating my eggs this year, mostly because it's been a couple of years and I really love the mixes. Unfortunately, this was a bad batch. Ants got 5 of the peeps in the nursery coop and snakes got 3 others. Of the 15 I have left, 8 are cockerels!!!! I definitely want 3, maybe 4 of...

Has anyone fed fermented feed, then switched to a dry pellet? Pros? Cons? My feed room is an oven and while it may be conducive towards a good ferment, it's just too hot for me to keep mixing the grains and making the feed. I'm leery about going back to a pellet, though. I switched 8 years...

My incubator lost power last night, day 17. I plugged it back in this morning, but the eggs were cold. Are they lost?

I've been thinking and researching about getting some angora goats. Anyone here have them? Any tips or warnings about the care and feeding thereof?

A couple of months ago, a friend took one of my toms (6 months old) to be with her 4 horny turkey hens. Everything has been going great, but today, she says he's very wobbly and is worried that he might be getting sick. She says there's no discharge, no marks on his head, his poops are still...

Today, one of my 6 month old turkeys that I believed was a hen (has the mohawk, smaller than the toms) has started to puff up and strut with the toms. She/he is small, has a larger wattle than the other hens, but it's still miles smaller than the obvious toms. And she/he chirps as she/he...

Finally finished getting the turkey coop finished. I'm still waffling on whether to put wire on that slim opening on the back wall. It's about 6 inches. What do y'all think? Do raccoons really bother birds that are 3 times bigger than them? Also, should I trim wings? It's a large pen for...

A friend of mine took 3 of my poults and she said one turned out to be a tom, but has disappeared. Could her older tom (2 years old) have run the baby off? (poult is about 3 months)

Well, we just moved from suburbia to the country and are starting to find snakes in the coop. The poults and chicks found a buttermilk racer in theirs and that snake was very lucky to find a hole out of there before he became dinner! The poults had him cornered and every few minutes, a chick...

I'm setting up a 12x12 stall in the barn for my turkeys. How high is good for their roosts? Do they need steps for getting up there like my fat chickens do?

Looks like I have at least 4 toms. So cute!

I found pieces of a hen scattered around my horses pen yesterday - the shoulder bones and wings attached; the head and spine and one foot with all the leg bones still attached. No muscle on anything. I've never seen this before! Any one have any idea what I could be facing here?

I received 20 poults last Thursday. So far, I've found 5 dead and another is starting to fade out. What is killing them? They came out of the box like a raging gang of mosh pit crazies. What is causing them to keel over?

Anyone know what day McMurray usually ships their chicks?

A friend has a male emu that has settled down on some eggs in the wooded section of her property. Given the changing weather we're having (70's one day, rain the next, then 30's, then back up to 70's), she's a little worried about him. He won't be moved. She's going to tarp up a makeshift...

I'm thinking about getting into turkeys in the next year or so, could anyone give me some advice on where to start? What to build for them? Things to watch out for? Thanks!

Question for anyone who is using electric fencing to keep the chickens in an area. Since most electric fencing I've seen is only about 4 feet tall - how do you keep the chickens from flying over? My girls fly over my 5 1/2 foot wood fence in the horse pen with ease.

Has anyone watched this show? I was told I needed to watch the 2nd episode because of the "homesteaders" needing help with their free range chickens getting picked off by predators. The premise is that a family is trying to homestead and having problems, so this Raney family (father: builder...

I go through this every year and I'm still not confident of when. My chicks are now 8 weeks old and in a fenced off section in the coop (since they outgrew their brooder at 4 weeks). My coop is an 8x8 original section with a 12x12 horse stall expansion. During the day, we shut off the 12x12...