Can you automate the pop door so you don’t have to let them in and out?
What about larger feeders and water containers.
Your feelings are completely normal. How many birds in your flock?
I would like another BCM rooster, but I don’t think I’ll be able to keep 2 roosters. The one I have now is not perfect, but he is tolerable. The crowing is usually around 6 am til 630 then stops for awhile and doesn’t crow but maybe every hour or so. The other BCM was crowing about every 2...
That’s exciting in the shipped eggs. Those are the BBS marans?
Here’s a pic of the chicks right now taking a siesta inside their large chicken wire playpen. I have to keep them in here for the majority of the day and then let them free range for 2-3 hrs in the evening. The dog can only protect...
Thanks for asking. The 19 has unfortunately gone down to 14. I lost 4 about 3 weeks ago and then another 1 last week. I never saw what happened to any of them. They have been slipping through the chain link and getting into the alley and I think are getting snatched by neighbors’ free ranging...
She has recovered completely. I had to keep her penned up in a dog kennel for almost a week and put neosporin on the wounds daily. I did give her sardines as well as scrambled eggs.
The first day I let her back out the cockerel mounted her and tore open her wounds, but I kept treating her and...
I learned that word comes from creel, meaning the wicker type of woven fishing baskets.
“With an uncomplicated design and simplicity, the creel is a symbol of fishing from days gone by. The word “creel” or “a wickerwork receptacle” dates back to the Middle English, between 1250 and 1450 A.D. A...
I’m in austin. I think it’s 50’ from neighbor’s buildings. I let mine roam free in the yard and return to an open air style coop. I have one rooster and noise isn’t too bad.