I personally have never seen anything above 24% for meat birds. I am guessing it was for game birds as their feeds seem to range between 26-30% from what I have seen
Definitely be ready! I ordered my chicks from them and they came a day before they were supposed to hatch! They arrived within 10 hours of being shipped and were very healthy. All 6 are still doing amazing at 6 weeks old!
To be fair, I was thinking from the stance of living in PA where it feels like it rains nonstop. I dug a big hole in my backyard that went from 0 water to at least 200-300 gallons of water 3 feet deep in less than 2 days. And I checked on it 3 days after it stopped raining so it could have been...
I would use a 300 gallon stock tank with the drain sealed with aquarium silicone. Dig a hole two feet deeper and a foot wider (so 6 inches all around). Fill the bottom 2 feet with pea gravel but make sure the rim out the stock tank will be about an inch above the ground and level it out. Place...
Might not be the answer you are after but breed what YOU want, not just what is popular. You aren’t going to enjoy it as much and what is popular is constantly changing. That means that when the spotlight changes, you are going to be stuck chickens that aren’t what you want.
Depends.
Close friends irl? 1
Just regular friends? Probably around 15
Close friends online? Around 5
Friends online? 20-30
I am a pretty hard person to deal with in person as if I am not talking about stuff I want to, I am either annoying or I just drift off into the depths of my brain. But I...
It really depends. For example, my 5 week old chicks (6 of them) have been going through a quart of food a day since they were 2 1/2 weeks old. The only reason they aren’t going through more is because they get around 5-6 hours outside a day meaning that they are only eating from their inside...
don’t worry, I completely overthink everything that has to do withy pets.:p
I just try my best to remember that nothing in nature is perfect. Hens usually get off the eggs at least once a day, one hen may have a slightly warmer/cooler body temp, etc. Heck, I have heard of people have chickens...
Is that bin their brooder? Or is that space ousting of it available too?
If that bin is their brooder than they need something at least triple that. If you could you run out to Walmart or something and grab the biggest bin they have, then that will be a good size and reduce the chances of them...