Posts by bmarshall61

Not sure where you live but every day or so I put fresh grass clippings in my chicken house and also the brooder, which has 18 two month old guineas, makes it smell wonderful and of course they love it.  Been doing that for years,...

I can tell you my wife, who use to caters, always  cooked awesome big turkeys.   She would smear them with butter flavor crisco, or real butter for us, that makes the salt, pepper and garlic stick,and them put a couple of...

Give them some time, this is acceptable chicken behavior, they will in their own time "go to roost".   I like 2"X2" for roost but 2X4 should work.   I have one sex link that is 5 months old that...

Give them all you want, mine eat wild ones until their bills are stained.   I guess it is good for them, mine are all healthy and happy.  Same thing for mulberries, pears and mama's figs which don't have a chance to get ripe.

I am with Judy, no shot and no medicated food unless I have a problem.  Feed store guy says if you give them medicated feed all the time, it looses it's effectiveiness.   I don't know, just have not had a problem.

Didn't you guys figure it out during all the last postings where they found the chickens, etc.?Bet my best rooster, this poster has some kind of martyr complex.

It is tough but you have to do it, otherwise your hens will be broken down from to much attention.  I have some really hard choices to make but what I have done in the past is do it all in one day, put them in the freezer and forget...

They love them and your eggs won't be purple, just healthy.

Well, guess I am an outlaw but my chicks are healthy and happy.  I start giving them a bag full of muched grass at about two weeks, just dump it in my 4' X 8' brooder.  They eat as much as they want and trample the rest, it...

Sorry to disagree, but I watched outside chicks grown up eating everything their moms could scratch up.  I give mine very fine mulched grass clippings, some fruits and anything they will eat, except potatoes, they are smarter than...