I have some very old Kencove netting I'd like to repair, but would prefer to order from Premier1 because I have other stuff to order from them and can get it shipped together - has anyone used Premier1 replacement posts (I guess the 13mm ones, that seems to be what the Kencove measures, rather...
I had a BSFL farm going last year, but they all died in a freeze (I jury rigged a little greenhouse hoping to keep the pails warm, but it didn't do a great job, so we stopped getting adults laying). I'm in the Florida panhandle, zone 8b, I wonder when wild BSFs will start appearing again.
About 20 weeks old, raised entirely on pasture with organic, soy-protein-free feed augmented with black soldier fly larvæ and fresh veggies and fruits.
About a dozen roosters available, you're welcome to buy one or many. Would consider trading for hens, as well, on a case-by-case basis...
Currently we use a few chick feeders (like first pic, but no top) and a few round feeders (the bottom part of something like the second pic here, not the top part since we do fermented feed) to feed our flock, which is okay but still doesn't give enough perimeter space for everyone.
I'd like...
We saw a low-energy chicken about a week ago, isolated her, etc. But she just never really perked up and this morning we found her dead.
Dissection pictures below in spoiler. The first one shows her open cavity - it looks fairly empty in there - with a little bit of standing water still, but...
We had a hen die fairly suddenly on us, unfortunately. We've had a few lately, in fact, though not all with similar symptoms or circumstance.
This one, a leghorn about four months old and always on the small side, we noticed was a bit yellow around the eye (the skin around the eye, not the...