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X3...very cute coop..
I hear my hawks every morning. I'm only out with the girls I the morning during the week.... So who knows maybe they come back at other hours.
So they must have a schedule.... The girls kept growling and freezing this morning and I looked & looked and nothing. Well a large hawk flew in and perchedon a power line running across the neighbors yard. He/She was very pretty... Red chest, dark bands on wings .... Red Tail hawk!??? I'm going to have to look it up.
I think my local hawks have put eat morning coffee yard playtime on their schedules. Right after the hawk flew away a crow returned.... Still no sign of the squirrels this morning. They're not stupid
Delish, I "soaked" nuggets eye. She is a feisty little one. You'd think I was torturing her! I don't see anything around her eye. No visible cut or scrape. Soaking consisted of wiping the eye & surrounding area and trying to hold the cloth over her eye.... i was not very successful with that part.... Poor thing has NO feathers on her belly and seriously lost a good 50 while I was trying to soak her eye!! She feels like a porcupine! I'll post her pathetic picture from this morning when I get to the office.
I think as you soak it on and off you might see something eventually..the heat will bring it to the surface eventually...I hope..
just a quickie update on the new little girl who wasn't doing so well at first...
I weighed her when I got her, she weighed approximately 7 ounces (hard to stand still on the scale) at between 12 and 16 weeks old... I started feeding FF a week ago, and weighed her this morning. she's up to a whopping 12 ounces now! and they're cleaning the dish out big time. way more than 1/2 cup per bird I saw someone else mention, but I don't care. LOL she's eating and gaining.
(munch munch munch)
still gaping occasionally but much improved since i got her... I'll dose her again for the gape worm tonight (2nd dose of ivermectin tonight should hopefully get the rest).
I said 1/2 cup per bird and that was for adult birds on FF who free range on good grasses.
I do not want people to think 1/2 cup per bird covers all birds in all situations and I apologize if you think that is what I was doing. Adult laying chickens consume vastly different amounts of feed. Factors influencing feed consumption include, but are not limited to, breed type, how much they exercise, climate (including variations in temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation), the caloric and nutritional density of the feed, and how much natural feed supplementation they obtain.
Also, rodents and wild birds can greatly reduce the feed supply. This can be reduced by removing or sealing off the feed at night and fermenting the feed.
It is important, and enjoyable, to determine how much feed your flock is consuming. Begin keeping records of amount, type and price of all feed you purchase. Be sure to record both the measured amount of feed as well as its weight. Include the number and ages of chickens you have, right in the same page as the feed records.
This way you simply know. Good records makes good chickens.
I hate to have to clarify everything..but..
Ill birds and chicks are fed different than adults. If you are trying to put weight weight on a skinny or emaciated chicken you would not consider a normal feeding schedule or amount.
bantams and Large fowl are also fed different more for LF and less for BF.
above all else my measurements are suggestions and nutritionally based on free range birds and NOT caged birds. I do not have caged birds. All of my birds have grass between there toes even in breeding pens. Chicks are on grass after three or four days no matter the weather.
Nothing I say is concrete and what i say works for my birds and might not work for your birds. I have planted my yards full of nutritional greens like collards, clovers, wheat, herbs. I do not remove weeds because most are good for chickens..like dandelions, thistles and chickweed.
