I was alerted about this from another YouTube video where he mentioned a family with back yard chickens who were tested with high amounts of lead in their blood. The culprit was lead leaching from those black rubber feed bowls, then being passed thru the eggs into the family.
I tested one of my...
This may work well for different kinds of feed, but for standard chicken pellets or crumble, its a fail.
Crumble, as expected, is just too fine to work well in a spring system, so I tried Pellets.
The spring seems to release more pellets from the top than the bottom, and after two weeks there...
Just posting this short clip before I paste together all the other ones from today.
There is a definite learning curve for the chickens, but after a couple of hours, and stealing their normal feeder from them, and slapping it for them several times, they have finally figured it out.
So why...
I have a Black Americauna Roo and hen, plus 3 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte hens.
If I hatch the eggs from the wyandottes, do I end up with Easter Eggers or some other breed?
I just logged into this site for the first time in a long time, guess I've been a member for about 6 years or so.
This summer I finally got around to building a coop, run, and getting myself some chickens.
My progress can be seen in the playlist here...
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So today I'm doing some plumbing on our house, and go out to the curb to turn off the water and I see a flock of baby chickens by the water meter. My wife is a bird lover, so I let her know about them, and next thing I know we are grabbing them up and tossing em in a rubbermaid tote. We...