Posts by madisonmama

I want to deworm my flock (100+). Starting with Wazine and following up with Safegaurd. What is the easiest way to give a Safegaurd to 100+ chickens?

Two nights ago a opossum found his way into our coop and attacked one of our roosters. He was recovering from bumble foot and was doing well, until the attack. I took him from the coop, gave him a quick check and separated him. The...

If you are okay with used cartons, check your local grocery stores. They remove cracked eggs and replace with uncracked eggs. They then place the cracked eggs into empty carton and throw away. Just ask the dairy manager to save the...

I had a problem with one of mine, similar to yours. The first thing I did was separate her from the others. Put her on chick starter for the added protein. Put vitamins and an antibiotic in her water. She back to herself in about 5...

Welcome. I am in North Florida. Not too far from Valdosta.

We lost half our flock last year. We thought it was a raccoon, but it turned out to be a mama fox.

It's always exciting when the young hens start to lay. Congrats!

I have 5 roosters that I need to remove from my flock. I am only removing them to start pure breed breeding. I have a Dominique/Rhode Island Red mix, hatched on 11.24.11. He is a beautiful boy, docile and has provided many hardy...

Awaiting to hear back from Efowl regarding their guarantee of sexing. I ordered pullets and out of 5, 3 are cockerels. To top it off only 4 are the breed I ordered. To be fair, I had ordered a total of 20 pullets and 17 were correct.

Two of my eggs have pipped. The grand kids aren't too interested as yet. As the hatch progresses I think they will get excited. I always get excited. This is so addictive.