Posts by roz

I got her from a friend a last summer.  She came debeaked already, but she is the most aggressive one out there and is my feather plucker. Her redeeming quality ( other than being a chicken) is that she is sooooo curious she cracks...

I have a 1 1/3 year old golden comet who just today has been huddled in the corner of the run not being herself. I went out and checked her over and saw no lice, mites, or anything else. She has a bright red comb too. She was wormed in...

I wasn't sure if poppy seeds were bad for them. Or lemon. I had searched the forum but only found those words linked to recipes.

I made some muffins tonight with corn flour, lemon, oat milk, and poppy seeds. They were not a hit with my family so I was wondering if it was safe to feed them to my chickens?

I'm curious to hear everyone's feed back about this. We got our chickens as juveniles last summer, and I had my husband build a fully enclosed run after the farmer we got them from told me that a family had a chicken taken by a hawk...

I believe valbazen is one of the top broad spectrum wormers, but you have to dose individually. I don't think there are any broad spectrum wormers that can be used in the water. I have heard people say they worm in the spring when it is...

Our run is covered.  the problem is that the ground is so saturated it's coming up through the ground. Minimal rain gets into the actual run unless it's really windy. It's just wetter than usual with the hurricanes...such a bummer...

So I have DE, but what is the oyster shell lime?  I have regular oyster shell that they eat? I have a couple rivers running through the run bc the rain was that bad...the water table is too high (our basement is full of water too)....

Two days ago I put 750 lbs of sand in our 16 x 8 run ( we have 8 hens) because we had gotten so much rain their run had turned to mud. I have read all good things about sand, but it rained after the sand was put down too, and now the run...

I have a debeaked hen...not sure if it's from hatchery.  She doesn't seem to have any trouble, but I feel bad for her (although she is my biggest offender when it comes to feather plucking...she can do damage so I'm not sure why...