Recent content by Love Donkeys

I think everyone knows by now, I free-range my Speckled Sussex. Their coop has 7' ceilings and three aluminum storm (human) doors, no poop doors. The only place they can get their layer crumbles is in the coop. Feeding only in the coop prevents wild birds from contaminating their feed and...

I do not know if this "Hamster-Chicken ball" is real since it was photo shopped over the chicken. If it happens to be real I believe it would be very dangerous to the chicken. In using it you have basically prepackaged the poor chicken in a "takeout container" for its predator. ☹

Speckled Sussex, 26 layers, 2 romantic roosters, 1 broody hen sitting on 14 eggs.

It's still a cool sign! 😄

LOVE your sign!!

Over they years we have had some really mean roosters of different standard and bantam breeds. They were mighty tasty in Pot Pies. Right now we have two very gentle Speckled Sussex roosters, Boss Man and Mr White. When customers would come to our farm to purchase livestock or eggs they would...

I free-range my chickens, but we live in a rural area. My chickens have protection in the form of plenty of places to hide and our donkeys. I have lost 7 chickens over the past 24 years due to stray dogs and careless drivers and it broke my heart. I understand the the problems you will have if...

For years we used Great Pyrenees to protect our Meat Goat herd and the Chickens benefited too. Since we are semi-retired the only other livestock on our farm is Donkeys. Our Chickens run to the Donkeys when they frightened, especially when the predator has four legs. Our free-range Speckled...

Usually pick up 16/18 eggs. I pick them when I close the coop for the night.

I free-range 30 Speckled Sussex, 28 hens & 2 adult roosters. The chickens are always locked in their coop at night. The coop is the only place they can get their grain, it makes a good incentive for them to return to the coop. We have plenty of places our chickens can run to if they see...

Sounds good to me!

My husband said bring the dead birds to the neighbor. Tell them they can keep them since their dogs liked them so much. Luckily we live in a very rural area, more livestock than humans. Canine trespassers never leave, just like the song Hotel California.

Metal trash cans with tight lids. Bought them at TSC, even got a discount on one because it was dented. They are on the chicken coop covered porch and never had a rodent problem, just a donkey problem. When we were on vacation our grandson forgot to lock the chickens gate. Our donkeys just...

If you have an Extension Service, Ag collage or even your state Soil and Conservation might be able to help. Once we had several calves die suddenly and the Soil and Conservation people came down qnd checked our pasture for poisonous plants.

I've never had a free range chicken die from poisonous plants. I had 2 die from pecking at the ground where Antifreeze had dripped. We didn't realize that one of our tractors had a small radiator leak.