So cute! I love chickens, they are my most absolute favorite animal. I have roughly 60ish chickens. I have blue/splash Silkies, currently 8, for my kids and they just adore them. Silkies are just the cutest, I love your black Silkies, the other ones are adorable as well.
Thanks. What do I do for a zinc deficiency? I offer them loose minerals, though I will be honest sometimes I forget to put it out.
I will check the inside of the ears tomorrow.
Im glad to have found this. Just today I noticed that one of my ND does has hair lose around her eyes, she also dandruff. I thought it was strange since I have looked them over so many times over winter and early Spring for lice, never saw a thing. Didn't really dawn on me they could have mites...
Magnate - A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.
Vegas Illuminator
Imagination Vegas
or just Illuminator or Illuminate
If he is a twin or a triplet - Connate meaning Born with another; being of the same birth. It would need something...
No I did not give them extra calcium, only laying hens need extra calcium. Extra calcium in not good for young birds or rooster.
I did give them a higher protein feed.
This is my goat house we built for 2 ND does made from scrap wood I had been collecting. It is roughly 8x4 and 5.5ft high and the hay feeder is mounted inside their house. The pen is kind or circle shaped so I don't know the square footage. I plan to build a separate milking shed this summer.
I voted
numbers are always changing but
At the moment I have
27-chickens
10-chicks in the brooder
45-chicken eggs in the incubator
8-Bourbon Red Turkeys
2-Ducks
2-Nigerian Dwarf goats
2-dogs
and a partridge in a pear tree