I will certainly do. When is the best time to introduce them to some homemade yogurt /boiled egg? Better mix them with the feed or put in a separate feeder as a free choice food?
I took a 1 hour and half drive today and I got the chick starter food so everything is ready now.
Yeah I really didn't want to feed them the broiler food because it's designed for birds that will die at 6 weeks so who knows what ugly stuff they put in there.
Being an extreme wholefooder myself...
Hi, I'll have a few chick hatch next week, but my supplier is out of chick starter feed and only has an all purpose for broilers that they eat from the day they hatch to the culling age.
Is this food ok for my chicks? Or do I need to supplement them with something else?
The food I have always...
Just updating on my "fixed" incubator: on day 13, 9 eggs out of 10 are alive! Only one egg died on 3rd day but it was an odd and very small legbar egg so I knew it might be not viable so definitely not the incubator fault. There is another egg that has a cracked shell and I'm not sure if it will...
Chickens only have one neuron: food. They are not trainable to not eat what they think is super tasty. Trainable for many things but when there is food they lose their mind. Fence the chickens or fence the plants. I use bird net because I'm stingy af and it works.
I trained my hens to not step...
I'll give her a week to see if she settles. I would appreciate a broody hen since I have some eggs in the incubator. If she doesn't sit then I will break her though which method do you think it's the best?
I checked her breast and she's missing some feathers, she didn't lay neither yesterday nor today so that's what it is. It's also a breed that it is said to go broody.
She's not staying in the nest and she's behaving normally at the moment except the continuous clucking. We'll see what happens...
She started making these weird noises a few days ago, she only do them when I'm around. Anyone knows what it means in chicken language? Video here, you might need to turn your volume up:
From the xray it might be possible that the screw had been in the bird for a long time and it might be covered in fibrous tissue (a defense mechanism). In this case the foreign object is not dangerous anymore and it is safer to leave it where it is. If the bird looks and acts normal and the...
I'm pretty sure it's safe for chickens because I already used it on canaries and wild birds but it baffles me that it is stated that I can't eat the hens eggs, like, forever. It has to be some UE nonsense. Are really eggs from permethrin/tetramethrin treated birds unsafe to eat for the whole...
I've seen a lice crawl on one of my hens, she is missing a few feathers on her neck so lices are probably the issue.
I have this product at home,
https://www.amazon.it/Neo-Foractil-Spray-Uccelli-300Ml/dp/B01AGGMOKG
it's a spray that contains
- piperonyl butoxide 10mg in 1 gram of product
-...
This exact morning I woke up, and was in the bathroom. I heard one of my hens scream exactly like the rubber chicken:
I couldn't believe my ears. She sounded like that.
And it was just a temper tantrum because she wanted to get out of the run.
I got a very young parsimmon tree shipped to me. I didn't know it would be basically a stick with no branches. Any advice on how to prune it so it will grow a nice crown and not grow as a sad bush? Should I cut all the lower branches/sprouts and leave only 4-5 on top if it? Thank you in advance!
Toss the egg. If you can't keep the bird and you can't be responsible for it, toss it. I'm a bird rehabber and I volunteered for my local wildlife association. Rehabbing a captive born goose is extremely difficult and I personally wouldn't do that. I had to deal with a few captive born and hand...
Be patient and let her molt. It took 1 full month to my 1 year old hens to start laying after I brought them home and they weren't even molting. I was about to turn them into soup. Now they lay almost every day.