Recent content by NicholeT

I purchased a nice 40lb bag of Sweet PDZ horse stall refresher granules a couple months ago that I had been mixing with sand for my poo boards and for the life of me I cannot find it anywhere online to get it delivered to me. (If anyone has a lead on it, please let me know). I have 13 hens and...

I hatched 5 Black Sex Link roos, 4 of them bullied one out of the coop who hid up on a hill in the brush. Ironically, we couldn't get the bullied roo out so we culled the other 4. Once the 4 were gone, he came back immediately and has flourished, has grown up to be a really nice rooster, not...

We are currently free ranging with an automatic door so Sun up to Sun down. I have 13 hens and 1 rooster all black sex link. We have 7 acres but they tend to prefer human contact so stay around the house and yard. I love that they are free range, they love that they are free range but we know...

should I add permethrin dust to the dust bathing area?

Our area is really overridden by wild turkeys who are riddled with parasites and ticks. Our flock is free rage and so their paths cross often. I recently found mites in our coop which I highly suspect is from the turkeys. I can address the mite issue but how can I prevent the turkeys from...

Bought the Rent a Coop water nipples that worked GREAT for a while. Then they started to leak. Discovered the holes we drilled in the 5 gallon bucket actually cracked - even though we used the recommended bit size. Get a new bucket, drill new holes, silicone the holes, add a rubber washer on the...

I was cleaning out the poo boards this morning and I found one section where there were little bugs on one side where there seemed to be more moisture built up likely from urine. The poo boards have a mixture of Sand and PDZ. I don't think they were mites- they were black, larger and crawled...

Its 3ft HWC so we built the structure based on the size of the cloth- posts 3 ft apart. My hubby is a bit of a perfectionist and creating this run became a nightmare for him. He made me promise never to bring anyone back to see it because he thinks it looks so bad. Its secure and predictor...

So we are in the process of building the run and the 1/2 inch hardware cloth does not flatten out at all even with staples. When we roll it out its all wavy and it causing massive issues trying to fasten it tightly to the wood. Is our product defective? This stuff is bad enough to work with but...

For those of you who feed and water with 5 gallon buckets, Do you use anything on top to prevent them from pooping on the lids? I hate having to try to open the lids to access clean food and water with poo all over them. I've tried a few things (cardboard taped on- they ate the tape) another...

I have the Rent a coop nipples on a 5 gallon bucket and they are the bomb. Now how to get them to stop pooping on the top on the enclosed 5 gallon buckets is another story. I hate having to try to open the top when its full of poo.

Hubby and I are debating this now. Two questions for "total" Free Rangers .. 1- Do you have a predator proof run at all? 2- Do you have someone keep watch when on vacation or leave them free ranging? We are brand new to flock ownership. We have 7 acres, a good sized coop (12x8) with an...

I just got these exact ones this week and attached them to a food safe 5 gallon bucket and they are the bomb. The chicks who are 5 and 6 weeks old figured it out really quick. I bought 12 because I read they may leak but only installed 4 and they came with a tiny drip cup so I tapped on the...

I have my 4 week olds in a 3 man tent and changing the bedding is a total PITA because I can't stand in it so I have been just adding bedding and changing out only the really soiled stuff and that seems to work and keep the smell down. So far I have really only changed the bedding on a weekly...

I would love to see a picture of the hose/pvc waterer. Is that because you have so many? Why not just have the bucket on the ground with more nipples?