I have a few roos that need to go, too many, and one is very very mean, it literly ripped the skin off a hen down to her skull. Ive tried to get ready to process them but I cant seem to bring myself to do it, Ive killed ducks and phesants, but these seem so much like pets. How do you guys do it...
Pulled this shed outa a investment property we baught, decided to use it for my coop instead of building one from the ground up before and after attached
Before
And one of my chicken wranglers
My other chicken wrangler
After
There free range area
Random Happy Chicken pic
Will 4 24x24 windows provide enough ventilation, or do i need to start putting slots in the walls, im worried about the winter, Im from Iowa and it gets below 0 very often. The coop is designed where there is really not much options for vents that will not provide drafts, MAY be able to get 6...
Is there a website that shows pics of all the different breeds of chicks, and helps with ID'ing the kind you have? Id really like to know what there going to look like later on
The vent? I think its called. Or its anus... Is kinda odd on this one little gray chick. All the other ones there basically flush, this chick it kinda sticks out instead of being flush on the chicks butt the top sticks out basing the "vent/anus" to kinda point down toward the ground. It runs...
Havent figured out what I wanna do for a lid yet. Was gonna take a piece of wood. that has some of the mesh in it. and set my lamp on top of the mesh? its 24x48x22
Well I cleaned up the pasty butts, outa 16 chicks 5 had it, 1 was a little dirty but wasnt really a issue, cleaned him anyway. Its odd. the ones that have it are all the same "type" except 1 little bantam that had it too. Have 13 "assorted pullets" 4 yellow 4 redish tanish and 5 black with...
Well im 24 and my girlfriend is 21, were starting to raise chickens for there eggs, we have been buying cage free eggs due to the abuse they suffer in the battery cages. I have about a acre yard, so figured we mise well get into chickens and have our own "free range" chickens... I really dont...
Just got my first batch of chicks from Tractor Supply, 13 Pullets 4 Bantams ( the girlfriend wanted the "babys") They all seem to be doing fine but the one Bantam, it just lays there, if you move it, it will unsteadily walk to whereever it wants to be then lays back down. It seems like its...