Posts by Ariel301

17 degrees is not cold enough to kill chickens unless they don't have feathers. There are plenty of people in very cold climates keeping chickens without an artificial heat source. People were keeping chickens long before electricity was...

Chickens are never "too young to leave their family". When I have a hen hatch chicks, I take them away as soon as I find them so they don't get hurt by the other chickens or eaten by predators.  He won't die of grief....

I can't GIVE roosters away most of the time. (I generally don't anyway, unwanted roosters become dinner at my house) I'd say it's a great price if they're just plain old roosters and not show quality birds.

Tricking them with an egg full of horseradish or some other spicy thing won't do any good. Birds are not bothered by spicy foods. Egg eaters usually eat the shell too. Really, the best thing to do with egg eaters is the crock pot. It's...

There are so many roosters in the world that there is really no point in keeping a mean one. They don't tend to grow out of it, once they know they can terrorize people, they will only get more and more bold. And if you're planning on...

Neither one, really. Adequate nutrition is certainly important in egg production, if the hen is not getting enough to eat, she can't produce eggs very well, so she will lay less or stop laying. There is no ingredient in layer feed that...

There is no telling what you will get by crossbreeding the Easter Egger with the other hens. The Easter Egger, being a cross itself, is carrying all sorts of genes. You will get a colorful mix of birds that may or may not have inherited...

Quote:Originally Posted by DanyyChicken Is this a norm or an exception for birds to live as long as 9 years? I was kinda under the impression from people I've talked to that birds often just up and die of natural cause often at 3...

I regularly fed citrus fruits to my birds and they loved them, and my egg shells and rate of lay were both fine. I would always give the chicks oranges or grapefruit cut in half in the brooders, several times a week, usually about one...

I've fed my birds lots of uncooked dry beans (we're talking 5-gallon bucketfuls at a time) and never had any issue.