Last year I successfully used grass clippings throughout the summer as bedding.
My mower catches the mulched grass in a bag and I'd spread it thin over a tarp on a hot sunny day, occasionally grab a corner of the tarp and flip the grass around. After a day or two it's bone dry and I basically...
Here is a night time shot!
I know people agreed that they no longer need supplemental heat but I will ween them off now since I've been providing it rather than cutting it off.
I have a photo-cell (light) controlled electrical outlet that controls the heat lamp, last night and tonight its set...
I appreciate the reassurance, I'm just a bit nervous so I was going to leave it on at night for them for a few hours.
It's about 5-6C (41) here at night and that heat lamp is a 175w bulb rather than the common 250w.
Build this "chick introducer" in my chicken run out of all reclaimed materials aside from the screws and hinges. The frame came on a shipping pallet which was also used as the base.
^ Here is my dog doing some predator testing!
The shelf is out front to treat the big...
Almost done (procrastinating) and have most of my new raised garden beds in place and ready for fill.
Running out of time to get it done! 3 more planters to build on the tier just below this one.
Just administered day 5 of the Fenbendazole treatment today! Last day!
Going to give it a full week before I got back to eating the eggs just in case.
From what I understand it is safe as long as the egg is fully cooked, and even if not most of the common worms that chickens normally get...
So every once in a while I'll find a broken egg in my coop, the current design isn't the best so I reworked it so it would be safer in the laying boxes I have. I then noticed busted up eggs in places they had no business being and started to get suspicious... Yesterday I opened up the coop to...