Recent content by homesteading101

I love brahmas

You're good it'll be fine. Enjoy the experience having chickens is one of my favorite things today

My brahma's this batch finally have fluffy feet without them being pecked out, a miracle indeed

All my young babies get fed oats with their starter feed and they do great. However they may not touch the dry oats because they don't know what it is, that's why I start young

Bump

I used to use a metal can lid as a shield for my aggressive roosters and it never worked lol eventually I got rid of them

If it was severely choking it would be dead, my guess it's pushing it's food down someone else might be able to help you and figure out what it is

Are you sure it's just not the bird doing that to push the food down? Chickens do that alot and looks like choking

Black sex links have a good temperament I'd buy one or two more

Lots of ventilation, 2x4 roosts, put a 1x4 or plywood in front of nesting boxes so they can't kick bedding out, functional way to clean coop and compost if need be, make it tall enough you don't have to crouch or bend over for anything

I'd take smiya's advice seems the most logical good luck let's hope for the best

So northern Michigan I saw pasture raised for $6 and the white commercial eggs at Walmart are about $2.75-$3. I sell mine at $2 or less I suppose I could charge more because pasture raised but nah the egg money is nothing compared to selling food itself I just love birds

Yeah, when I let the birds hatch I spend a lot of time with the mother so she doesn't turn into a demon raptor and attack me. Most of my birds liked to be held then go through a teenage stage where they don't want to be around me or scared of me, then when they lay all they wanna do is be in...

Think I've only seen one rat up here in decades only mice, that sucks and would be extremely annoying

Interesting you're probably right