I would like the empty feed, grass seed bags or any other of the ripstop tarpish material bags if you do not want them. I would like to turn them into recycled products....I will be at the downtown market if you could drop them off or let me know and
Read more…Hi There,our new batch of hens have just started laying and they are doing really well! I have 11 hens all laying brown eggs. I am getting an average of 8 eggs a day and I this will only get better as they hit their prime. I have been thinking of bri
Read more…I'm very impressed with the design of the Catawba tractors and am wondering if anyone has ever used one?http://catawbacoops.com/the-catawba-converticoop-chicken-coop-image-gallery.html
Read more…I let my 4 hens free-range during the hot summer days but leave food for them in their chicken tractor. The pigeons, doves and grackles have moved in and I find them inside eating the feed. Does anyone have any ideas or types of feeders that only chi
Read more…My drake, Errol Flynn, is about 5 months old. He free ranges with two Muscovy hens, 4 Ameraucauna hens, and 2 Nigerian Dwarf Does. He picks on everyone, especially the larger doe. Will this get better? Keep wondering if his behavior is sexual frustra
Read more…I have two roosters and I can't keep them. Would anyone like to trade a couple of hens for these roosters? One is a white leghorn and the other is an easter egger. The picture is from about a month and a half ago. The white one is dominant, crowing i
Read more…This is a follow up post to my previous one, "My first chicken emergency." Harriet is much better, but hasn't laid an egg for a week. Before the incident, she typically laid an egg every day. Sometimes she would skip a day, but she would never go mor
Read more…If anyone is interested in rabbits, I have 3-5 month old bunnies for $10/ea. They are purebred Rex and Rex/Brazilian crosses.
Read more…I have three young hens, and the last two days have found two eggs side by side. Would one hen lay two eggs or are two of them laying?
Read more…Hi all,I'm considering getting some chickens and I have a few questions. I am planning on taking the next chicken class, but it's not for a while.Are chickens loud? I don't want to drive my neighbors crazy. We have a block wall, and the nearest neigh
Read more…i just moved and my 9 girls now have big yard and a new coop. I found 15 eggs this morning under the coop and I'm not sure when they were laid. Should I toss them or are they safe to eat.
Read more…i have etxtra chicks! different breeds, all layers. i got a mixed group of rainbow layers from mcmurray hatchery, hatched on 9-16. so they are hens but i am not sure of the breeds.I have more than i need. if you a nervous about tiny chicks i can hold
Read more…I have a hen that in the last week her feet and her beek went from yellow in color to white, both her beek and her feet. Her body is white and her eggs are a pale green. She is 6 months old. I just wonder if this is normal or a sign of sickness or ma
Read more…Is anyone interested in TRYING to get Mesa Feed Barn to carry organic feed? I have no idea if they would be willing to order it but I thought maybe if I could show them there was an interest they might consider it.Right now I have been driving to the
Read more…Mona Lisa, our Rhode Island Red hen, is now Leonardo, the rooster... Due to zoning we are unable to keep him. My 11 year old daughter picked him out when he was just a feew weeks old, and since then he has been doted on. He has been fed all organic f
Read more…Well its Saturday morning and I just finished watering the plants in the garden and my chicken has once again reminded me that I had not yet let her and her friends out.If she knows someone is in the back yard or in the house(she can see us thru the
Read more…Let me start this by stating, I have no to desire to slander, or cause any discussion that is not positive. I do however, want to warn (especially newbie) poultry keepers of my experience at a local hatchery.In March I took my 4 children to C&C Hatch
Read more…Is it okay for a chicken to eat a lizzard? It kinda freaked me out... they always catch and eat crickets and other bugs outside, but I thought I'd ask folks on this site if you thought that was 'ok'?Thanks!
Read more…I am really trying to deal with the mess that comes with raising chickens and I need help to keep my sanity.Today I went to Scottsdale livestock supply and bought two bags of chicken feed because the last bag lasted such a short time, I thought I wou
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