I live in a warmer part of Alaska currently, it is May and the temps only drop to 30 degrees at night.
I’ve read that guinefowl keets should be kept at 80 degrees at 4 weeks old, but have allowed many 3 week olds to go outdoors on hot spring days (45 degree weather), with no ill results.
The...
I have an over 1yr old Lanvender Banty. (Millie) She has been a house chicken since last winter as she is small and at the time we got her she was the only chick we had from a late hatch and she was not big enough to winter outside (it was January when she was given to us) weird story I know...
I had a hen get snatched by a fox yesterday evening around 6pm and drug into the woods. By 8pm she was running into the side of the pen wanting in...she escaped the fox! We let her in and locked her up.
When i let her out today I noticed she had quite a few feathers missing, reached for her...