My wife and I love living in our hideaway in the woods with all the wild animals our goats and of course chickens!
Pic of wife and kids
And my little buddy Lenny !
This years we started with 34 day old chicks in a 4x8 brooder, 7 Light Brahmas, 5 Partridge Rocks, 5 Black...
We have Boer goats and one has a worm problem and is being treated.
Do chickens get the same type of worms (like the barber pole worm?)
The reason I ask is we been collecting clover and grass from the pasture for the chickens and the the worms have part of their life cycle on the ground and...
My BIL used to raise hogs and used heated mats for the babies, he gave me a few for the pythons I was raising.
They come in all sizes here is an example of them,, http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/prod1;ft1_hog_management-ft1_brooders_heat_mats;pg106120.html
Oh their fiberglass and safe to...
MomtoSyd&Emma :
Can I play too? lol Here is our newest coop to be, we have been working on it on the weekends and when money will allow (not to often) it will be attached to the run area that is beside it after we make the fencing taller and cover it.
when we started it:(dh and oldest DD...
crazyhen, thanks for the comments
Others have told me that would be a good ideal to use the smaller wire around the bottom.
I agree after trying to build the run critter proof as possible I would be pretty upset to lose just one!
When there roosting at night they are away from the sides and out...
Im about ready to start on the coop there is enough metal left for the roof but not the sides.
I was thinking about a 8 or 10 x 12 coop, my thought was to extend the run and build the coop on the end but since I dont have the metal for the sides I think it will be detached?
I'm still trying to...