Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I'm adding to the bumblefoot woes...my Salomon faveralle was limping yesterday and sure enough both feet :sAng_banghead: About 2 months ago I order Prid drawing cream from Amazon. I already had the vet wrap...lovely green colour. So into the Epsom salt bath she went last night. I pulled some of the...

Good morning! All is well.... except the humidity.

Thanks Jaye, Happy, and WWW. We ended up making an "executive decision". We moved all the adult chickens together and put the chicks in the separate half of the run. The ISA Browns are not happy and want back into their sort of "safe zone" from the other hens, but it'll have to do. This way, we can ...

We're going to try something different when adding my 5 week old chicks to the flock. First of all, we are going to put them in one half of the chicken run (enclosed) with 5 ISA Browns. They have kept themselves separate from the red & black sex-links. Since the ISA's are quite docile (not like my R...

I love beets! I like them pickled, roasted, and am particularly fond of borscht. The way my family makes borscht is like a vegetable soup - pork hock base, beets, cabbage, any other vegetables from the garden, vinegar to taste - usually about 1 tbsp (brings out the flavour of everything), and heavy ...

The most attentive and patient roosters will woo a hen by finding her a good spot to lay eggs, and then impress her with his nest-building skills and chuckling love song. If she actually sits down in that spot, she is telling him that he's won her over. Some girls like the chest beating, dancing, b...

ross wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 6:42 pm

Kinda like “COME INTO MY PARLOR SAID THE 🕷 TO THE FLY “

Oh stop it! You're bad!

Or I should ask, "Does anyone speak rooster?" Today, I found our rooster, Burt, in a nesting box. All the chickens had been let out of the enclosure, and he had gone back in. After shooing him out, he went into the other coop, into another nesting box. While in there, it looked like he was making a ...

Good morning! So nice to have some refreshingly cooler weather.

kenya wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:30 am

Yes we get that here, hard water line, I use that stainless steel washing pad. Don't get it from the dollar store those rust.Heres a picture of mine if you don't know what I mean. I struggled with those line too too until I found these.
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I will keep that in mind. Thanks!