Could anyone recommend a site for an electric feed grinding mill for corn and making own chicken feed. Something less than 300.00. Has anyone tried using a garage disposal as a grinder? Thanks
I have held them many a time , i.m a nurse and have seen no respiratory distress, What this does it lets the rooster know who the dominant one on the yard is and it humuliates him in front of the hens, Would essentially be like humans whose lungs are toward the backbone and diaphragm , all...
What i do, is catch them, no matter how hard and hold them by the legs upside down and walk around the pen feeding the other chickens, usually does not take me but one or two times and i have no further problems,
I have a guinea hen that has started sitting outside the coop, any suggestions on how to protect her , I don't think she would continue setting if I tried to move her, I live in town but we have foxes and possums and I don't want to lose her. Thanks
You need to keep them in the same coop at least 2-4 months before allowing them to free range, since you still have 3 they may show back up. From my experience , they have a poor since of direction and anything that startling will cause them to lose direction. When i first let mine out I let...
I would take her eggs and incubate them, in most instances something will get her and the eggs. shut her up in a pen with a male and let her start laying in a safe penned area, if it is not to late in the season for her to lay. My experience is that they are not good mothers, another option...
I think the pallet idea and straw insulation is great.It would be good for the cold and act as insulation for cooling in the summer. You have done a great job/
i haven't tried on yet, but someone said to just salt,pepper and garlic if you like and lightly dust in flour and place in a brown and bake bag. I have been told that alot of restaurants that advertise pheasant, actually serve guinea, don't know that but was told that.
One thing i have learned from my guineas , 40 +, they had rather walk than fly, and they love their flock, the first few days when I let the first batch out, we had to herd them back into the coop in the evenings, after that they came in on their own, when i let the next batch out, they followed...