Posts by ivan3

Barely sweetened water (Pedialyte would be good) mixed into a slurry with crushed meal worms (a dewinged moth squashed into paste and stirred in with the water will do), `eyedropper' into beak along one side or the other (make sure it is...

Quote:chickensioux wrote: Well, I don't like him visiting and we are keeping a gun ready. As soon as he figures out the chickens are a good choice, I'm in deep doo doo. Our chicken area is fenced with a hot wire on top and a fishing...

Here is a thread with link/info (Columbia Mo Center For Urban Agriculture). And info. gleaned by Overland Park, KS petitioner. (maybe you ought to have the reporter call down to Columbia, MO Animal Control, as...

Quote:Crabill wrote: its just a normal bronze, and we are supposed to be building a little building to put them in at night, im not worried about the cross breeding since they are just my turkeys so i will probably just run them together...

I'd separate this one from the others. Are these turks from a hatchery, feedstore or breeder? Do you have chooks/turk flock(s) already? Pays to play it safe and wash hands really well, etc. Tylan (Tylosin) is the commonly used...

There are several members whose flocks function as primarily commercial commodities (eggs and/or meat). mac-in-wisco is one whose posts I've read with interest over the years: ...

I can only tell you what I've done (this only happened once, with only one hen on nest). I forced her off with a plastic rake. I sprinkled a couple of handfuls of amorphous diatomaceous earth -ADE into the nest (some fine wood chips...

How did you rearrange the `arrangements', after the hatch? http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/768720/how-close-should-i-put-food-and-water

Quote:Crabill wrote:...I recently bought a very large bronze Tom, we built a 40x20 pen 10 foot high... Is that a good enclosure or not.? ... I just hatched some bourbon red chicks, when they come of age can the two intermingle, or should...

Just thought this was interesting: Quote:City Administrator Bola Akande said city staff had determined at least two residents were already raising chickens in violation of city law. But when the issue was brought to the Board of...