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DE = Diatomacious Earth
Methione- An amino acid (containing sulfur) required for feather growth. It's found in black oil sunflower seeds which also contain 30% protein.
Eggs are good when:
Fill a bowl with water deeper than an egg is long.
Place eggs...
Whole Chicken coop and run
Inside of chicken coop. Unique egg collected 10/30/2007.
We fell into having chickens. While we had talked about it before, I had told my DH that he had to build the coop BEFORE the chicks...
Chicken Saddle 1: 4 inches wide at the top Chicken Saddle 2: This one came from elle and
8 inches wide at the middle I have also seen it in
7 1/2 inches long...
I decided that I needed a coop for the chicks. Last year I made a sheltered area in their run but, it was a hassle. So I started thinking what type. It will only be used for a few months of the year so I didn't want to put alot of money into it and yet I wanted something that would work without...
We used a shed kit from Home depot to build our coop. We built it into a nice sheltered corner of our cow barn, siloroom, and silo. I don't have pics of building it but, here it is finished and some changes we made. The coop is 8x8x8. The run was a 9x 12 kennel that we added a door panel on each...
Thank you for your replies.
Yes, the new birds are from my flock. I hatched them from my current flock.
As for watching them when I add them in, I do that anytime I add a new bird(s) to my flock no matter how long they have been in the separation pen.
I'm going to be processing some of my older hens and the roo. I have replacements in the chick coop. I do have a small pen in the chicken run that I normally would put the pullets & roo into to introduce them in. But, with processing over half of my flock I'm really going to be upsetting the...