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Yes, that's a thing. That's how we did it when I was a kid.. .big cans of tomato product -- crushed tomatoes, usually -- not soup, but I guess soup would work, too. This was years before the advent of the Internet and decades before the Internet was available for public use so we didn't have...

It is a very sharp, pungent smell something like decomposing flesh, is the best way I can think of to describe it. If you can imagine the smell of something dead and then add the stinging irritation of hot peppers. It is a very cloying, persistent smell and once you smell it, you'll never...

Well, there are some varieties that do smell rather ....funky skunkish, but my question is, how would they be that close to the building to smell it in the first place in order to get the search warrant to raid you? Maybe it's different in Canada, but here they have to have probable cause in...

Just curious...did the cops feel like they had probable cause because you had cameras or were there other circumstances that got their attention? I'm not asking for details, just wondering how much attention the cameras drew in the first place. I have cameras on our property. I've decided not to...

Put hardware cloth over those gaps. I was amazed at the acrobatics a raccoon would perform in order to reach a very small gap (3 inches or less) in order to gain entrance to a shed. Very clever, persistent and amazingly flexible. Do not underestimate what a raccoon can or can't reach or what...

Quote: Thank you for not being mad at me for saying that. I see it in other threads in the forum (and I know you do, too) where folks are just on buying frenzies collecting all the cute chicks and not giving any consideration to how they'll deal with the adult birds, letting broodies sit on...

You all do realize that all those cute little chicks turn into big adult chickens that need adequate space to properly care for them, yes? Sometimes "chicken math" just sounds like another way of saying "chicken hoarder" and that's not a good thing.

Just keep in mind that the chickens simply being small doesn't relieve her of the upkeep of having chickens -- feeding, watering, collecting eggs, first-aid/worming/mite control, et al. If she is elderly and gets so attached to the birds that she is that upset when they die, she may not be up to...

It has nothing to do with perfection. It's about identifying what is hard/causing a problem and finding a solution. If you're hatching 90 chick a month, the heating pad won't work for you, but the smell can be addressed.

Explore the idea of putting a roof-over on the coop. It's inexpensive and saves the coop from turning into an oven. Google "roof-over" and you'll find plenty of articles and YouTube videos. No matter how intense the sun is, you can put your hand on the bottom-side of the roof sheathing and it is...

Oh good grief, don't do that. Use a heating pad cave. It takes no effort to keep them warm. You can brood them in the coop, not in the house (yes, even in the winter, even up North), and there shouldn't be a smell. If there is a smell, there's something you're doing that you could be doing...

Using a heating pad is even better. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/956958/mama-heating-pad-in-the-brooder-picture-heavy-update No need to heat the environment when all they need is something warm to press up against.

X2 ! I also found this invaluable for coop cleaning: The head with the brush and squeegee swivels. I used to live in the Northeast just north of Boston before I moved to the Deep South. My husband has lived here all his life and has seen snow maybe twice (maybe) in his whole life and...

Snaps and buttons aren't too bad. The chickens see them and try to peck them, but don't wear a hat among the flock that has a bead on the tie strings. It looks like a scene out of The Birds with them flying up trying to get that bead, which is, of course, right below your face. Ask me what...

Good point! And if you do build, use treated wood for the bottom plate of the walls because it will get wet and it will get pooped on. There are plenty of free shed plans on the web that can easily be adapted to be a coop. And if at all possible, have a coop you can stand up in or otherwise be...

Yes! Yes! I forgot that one. House shoes for inside the house, "clean" shoes for leaving the yard, and "chicken" shoes for being in the yard because walking around the yard is the same as being in the coop. And I wished I'd known how much my dog was going to love licking chicken poo off the...

I wish I had known that it's a crapshoot whether chicks from a hatchery will have the traits and characteristics that the breed is supposed to have. I spent a lot of time researching chicken breeds to find the one that has all the traits and characteristics I wanted -- heat tolerant, good...