I wonder if I can shop online and have my husband pick up the stuff on Monday. We'll be gone all weekend.
I wondered the same thing, but I don't NEED anything right now so I'm just going to wait. Saving $1 on a bag of feed isn't enough incentive to deal with people, plus I won't have spending $$ until my next pay, this pay goes to rent.
My set up has metal roofing over the first 3 to 6 feet of the run, depending on which one it is. The coop is divided in half, so there are two runs. Any way, the snow will likely not bother my pop doors.... and the sides have tarps .
I have 2 runs also, but Odin's inside area was confined to a 2'x 4' space so I built another 2'x4' space off his run door which also helped block the wind that blows in from the south. The run door for the ladies faces east, but the wind from the north blows through even though we have trees blocking the back section from the big blasts. I thought about putting tarps of plastic on the sides of the run, but I'm not sure how much it'll help. The back section is actually wooden snow fence so I feel like it's blocking a good deal of the wind back there. It's visible from the road so I don't want to make my parent's yard look anymore 'country' than it already does, but it's an option if things get really bad later.
I wasn't able to afford a vet, but even if money wasn't an issue no one will see chickens around here. The one vet that said, "Sure, well I guess I can take a look," wasn't fifty feet from being an option for me.
Henry's wounds were numerous and serious. He had a sucking body cavity wound on his back and several large deep ones, and his right leg was paralyzed from the hip down to his toes.
It's been almost six weeks now and he has recovered full range of motion and strength in his hip, most wounds are now soft scars, feathers are growing, and the horrible swelling in his bad leg has significantly decreased. We're not sure if he can feel his foot yet or if the ankle will loosen and regain mobility, but when I take him outside he hobbles around with his flock.
And my dear boy is crowing. I never thought I'd hear his sweet voice ever again.
Wow, what a story! Good to hear he's recovering well. Do you plan on putting him back out with the rest of the flock at some point?
I fell asleep instead. LOL Sweet PDZ is only $1 off so if I missed the sale it won't break the bank.
The store by me has had the Sweet PDZ on sale for $8.99 a bag for at least the past month. I got it when I put in my poop boards and I just bought another bag on Saturday and it was still $8.99.
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Happy birthday!!!!
Well, Ham and Bacon are doing some kind of construction project. They are clearing their pasture and cutting sticks into pieces about a foot long, some go it their house, while others go into a pile that they're building with sticks, grass and leaves.
They are old enough! Get ready for pig grand-parenthood!
When DW get's home I'll have her message the seller to find out if the boy was fixed.
I read on another post that a 2 month old piglet could impregnante it's own mother if you didn't remove it soon enough! You might have some babies on the way! According to the internet if she is pregnant you have 3-4 months to prepare. Hopefully your guy was fixed, if not, unless you are planning on breeding you'll want to get him fixed asap. If so you may want to consider separate quarters for them as he'll impregnante her again soon after birth and that is hard on the female (based on another post I read
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/pig-help.1202657/).
I don’t know anything about pigs, but I am enjoying the stories. Where is
@Smuvers Farm? Hope you feeling okay!
Someone said they'd be away this week b/c of holiday prep, maybe it was her? I have trouble keeping people straight... I think it was her b/c she has all the baby chicks, right?
I wasn't holding him, i was sitting on the ground scratching his beard feeding him raisins. I don't hold that roo, he's fat possibly from raisins.
I should try that w/ Odin, maybe he'd be nicer to me.. but I'd be afraid he'd eat my fingers. Every time I had feed someone they try to eat my flesh.
Every time I would kneel down one of the chicks would fly up to my head or shoulders and perch while I cleaned. I'd often have to call my husband to come de-chicken me so I could get up.
They're almost eight months old and one or two are still fond of doing this. The hens are a lot heavier these days and they have long sharp claws. But once they settle in and roost on my shoulder or back it's kind of warm and cozy.
But the last time I had a perched hen on my back, I turned my head to look at something and my peripheral vision caught a blurry look at a poised beak and I turned my head back just in time and got beaked on the side of my face. That was a close call. I think she was after my eyelashes.
I think goggles should be worn around beaked creatures at all times.
That happened to my daughter w/ our delaware. She was holding her and as she turned her head Jaiden went for her eye. Very scary. She was ok, but she scolds Jaiden every time she sees her now.
My Mollucan cockatoo was sitting on my shoulder and bit my ear a good one. Now i can't wear an earring on that side because the hole healed over!
They sell ear piercing kits at
Walmart, but I'm sure you can get them online. Or if you're really brave, just your pointiest earring and shove it through. I pierced my brother's friend's ear in HS like that. My daughter's holes keep healing over too so I just line the back hole up and shove it through.
I was wondering if pretty much everyone uses the same plastic red and white waterer, the one you can get in just about any feed store here in the States.
I don't recall reading that the plastic is food grade or BPA free.
For adding apple cider vinegar, plastic seems to be the only option. I wish there were more choices, though. What do you use?
I use plastic because i do not like the metal waterers. I may rig up some water dispensers this summer hooked up to 5 gallon buckets like i used to do for the bunnies. You can get food grade plastic buckets.
Mine are the white-ish dome w/ a green base, but I put those away for the 2.5 gallon heater waterer from
tractor supply. So far so good, except with 1 incident where I spilled out all the water flipping it the first time, and my ladies constantly kicking straw into it. I don't have it hanging. I also don't like the metal kind b/c I worried in the freezing weather they'd get stuck on it & thought it might freeze faster, plus I needed something that was heated.
Not sure if you have one by you, but at
Tractor Supply I saw a bucket with the nipples already attached.
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/little-giant-hen-hydrator?cm_vc=-10005 You could also check w/ a grocery store bakery section for the food grade buckets their frosting typically comes in, you might get them for free.
