Yep, the chickens have already depleted their grass. I usually mow with the riding lawnmower but I also have a pushmower with a bagger. Gonna start doing a couple passes with it so I can put some fresh clippings in their pens. Lol
I know this forum is for chickens, but I have a duck question. So my ducklings are almost a month old. I just let them play in their new pen today. I plan on letting them out daily to get use to their pen until old enough to permanently let out. I want to put a little pool in the pen with maybe...
Ya, the wife is gonna get one of the real small kiddie pools tomorrow to give them something to play in. They're still too young to leave out overnite, so just gonna let them have some daytime exercise for while to get use to the pen.
Thanks for the welcomes y'all! I'm out trying to finish up the fencing on my duck pen. Gotta get these guys out some so they can give me a break on cleaning. Lol
I forgot to add a pic of our duck brooder. We had them in one of those metal troughs but they were getting too big for that. The tent seems to work much better. It has a waterproof floor and we put puppy pads down under their waterer. Still a little messy but I can roll the pads up and toss...
So we live N.E., Tx. Wife wanted some chickens, lol, and we now have 4 three month old rhodes. They are doing fine. We bought a tractor supply coop that has 3 nesting boxes. Before we got the chickens, I thompson water sealed all the wood, sprayed sealer on the composite roof sheet and then...