So I have one Easter egger that has chosen to roost out side of the coop on a roost in the run. Should I be overly concerned. I have put a light in the coop tonight for some warmth. Any ideas?
Most of mine are medium sized eggs or a little smaller. I knew they would be small at first but I was hoping they would increase in size fairly quickly.
So I came out back to clean out the chicken coop. One of my hens came along and decided it was time to lay 15 minutes later she did. I thought we were done cause as far as we knew we only had two laying and now one of the others is in there laying. So I guess we have three laying. After forty...
Ok with winter coming I am trying to figure out how to keep the nipple water bucket I use from freezing. This is what I have.
http://www.atwoods.com/poultry-feeders-watering/cherry-chicks-chicken-kooler-35-gallon.htm
So I wasn't going to crack this one open until we got another couple of them but I went to get it to show it to my three year old daughter and found it cracked almost open on the bitten so I decided to scramble it up and when I opened it up there was a decent sized spot of blood in the yolk is...
So we switched to a nipple waterer the other day and I watched the chickens use it quite a bit that evening. I haven't seen them use it when I have been out there. I assume though in this heat they'd be dead if they weren't drinking from it? Also how high off the ground do I need to set my...
Our ice maker is struggling to keep up right now. I have two gallon milk jugs that I rotate in and out of the coop and today I put a fan out there blowing across one of them and they were loving that.