My boyfriend is a home brewer. To deal with the freshness of the wet barley grains he freezes them in quart sized ziplock bags. I pull a bag out of the freezer about once a week and let it defrost in the fridge. I feed a scoop as a treat for our nine girls each day throughout the week (along...
I had a hard time finding advice on adding chicks to a one hen flock. This thread was the most useful. Here is my experience. We have 9- 5 week old chicks and one 7 year old hen -Lucy (she was part of a 5 hen flock until 4 were killed by a roaming neighbor dog who broke into our coop). The...