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Yea, I'm actually raising common meal worms currently and their beetle stage is much different than lesser mealworms, and I'm just starting to see the differences in the mealworm stage. I'm really only having a problem with them in the broiler brooder house, those guys don't really...

Thanks for your response. I'm also moving this winter, so that might be helpful, right? If they are in the soil too, I can leave them behind. They aren't in the big coop yet, just in the brooder houses, and I'm burning the one at the end of the season because it's a wreck anyway. The other...

So I've recently been infested with litter beetles. It's getting kind of out of control because they have ended up in my house...and it's getting annoying. I'm just wondering if anyone else has had to deal with these things and what your take on them was. My birds are generally disease free...

I have 50 assorted hens/roos for my laying flock. 200 broilers coming and going all summer into fall. 25 barred rocks and 25 RIR chicks that I'm waiting to see hen/roo differences to separate them out. Previous total: 8937 Plus "Overthehill's" birds: 8969 Plus mine: 9269

Looks Easter Egger-ish to me. An EE is a bird mixed with Ameraucana and another breed. EE's lay blue, green, brown, or pink eggs or various shades in between. It does also look a lot like "howfunkyisyourchicken's" picture.

Kingsfarm: I hatched chicks the first time with broody girls. I went away on vacation and told my neighbor not to bother with the eggs since the girls were broody. I got back and they were sitting on 26 eggs. I ended up having about 8 hatch, but only 5 lived. Rough start, but I have no clue...

I have three broody hens. Two are silkies and one is a silkie, bantam-of-some-sort cross. If one gets up to get a drink and some food, another runs over and sits on the eggs. At night, whoever is sitting on the eggs goes into the coop and goes to bed. Another broody will take over and in the...

If I need to catch a girl right away, such as one of mine that has always thought of me as the scariest person on the planet, I use a long string with a loop for a snare. I set it on the ground and bait it, then I get back as far as the string reaches. I try to make sure no other hens are...

Rotten eggs are the worst experience ever, lemme just say that. If they explode, the smell is retched...it makes you want to rip your lungs out and puke everywhere. Now, this scenario is hilarious. Don't take the chicks to school, please! They are NOT quiet, they are poop monsters and they...

Mine have similar symptoms. Have you noticed a change in weight? Can they eat okay? Some of mine have lost significant weight, shake their heads, peck at food, but don't seem to have the energy to eat it. I've lost many over the course of a year and a half. All different ages. All the same...

When I went on vacation, I let the chickens do what they wanted with the eggs. When I got back, I had my "twins" sitting on the eggs guarding them amazingly (they are named Salt and Pepper because they look very much alike and one is white and one is black of course!). They hatched those...

Mine ate the insulation from the cat box that they were housed in for a few weeks, but other than to throw a vole around the hard a bit, they refused to eat that. They won't eat the cat food. They hate green peppers, onions, carrots, and broccoli. They refuse worms and give me the craziest...

I've tried using a washcloth and I've tried the eye dropper method...the little one just don't hold still and the flailing makes it so difficult, plus it SCREAMS horribly and I can only stand to wash the eye for so long before I'm sure she's ready to die of terror. There is no infection, just...

Thanks, I'll do that. That'll help keep it from cracking too if it gets too dry, right? Not everything has gone perfectly smoothly, but I knew going into hatching out chicks that things wouldn't go perfectly. I think I lost 3 chickens to unknown causes. One was found in the coop dead...

It took mine less time than others' since they had some older ladies to show them the ropes this time, but in the past, it has taken quite some time to get them to where they belong. I started out putting them into the coop at night to show them how it was done and then after a few nights, I...

I recently had six little chicks hatch naturally with two broody hens for mothers watching them. I slipped five more eggs under the one hen two weeks later from a specific hen so I could get some crosses and didn't see that there should be any problems as low as the mothers stayed on the eggs...

I think another part of the problem is that, like any young guy, he may just be forgetting the part about wooing the girls and just wants to get down to business instead. They aren't too keen on responding to those sorts of demands and then he gets frustrated and angry. Boys will be boys...

If the pen were nearby so he could be close to them it might not be so bad and if you were going to put them all back together after a while, then I wouldn't think it would be too rough on him, but it can somewhat mess up the pecking order to bring them together...and if you never did put him...

I'm always sad to say goodbye to my lil roos. I know I have to send them off (I send them to the best homes I can, usually a farmer who likes them for pest control or an individual who wants a single roo for their flock), but it's still hard to say bye to them. I've always had such awesome...

Thanks for that info Lotzahenz. Any info I found on giving the vaccine to older birds has stated that it is pretty much ineffective for whatever reason. One site said that letting young birds use bedding that was from an infected flock was useful in helping them build immunity...which is...