Recent content by tinah

But you are directly contributing to to suffering of yet more animals by supporting these practices. It's feel-good measures, not actual helping.

think of their starter/grower as power bars. Nutritionally complete for sustained life, but boring and a poor second to real food. Bugs, greens, fruit, meat. . . chickens are walking food machines. I give mine all kinds of kitchen scraps and do so from the 3rd day home or so. make sure to offer...

Oh good. I get so tired of reading about behavior problems in chickens that are due to over crowding. I've got my 5 and would love to have more, but right now it wouldn't be good for my birds to add more. and if I went by the "rule" that keeps getting thrown around of 10 ft/bird in the run I...

http://www.ruralking.com/customer-service 6 seconds of googling got me here.

If your siggie is correct, I suspect your chickies are over-crowded. the coop is fine, but your run should be close a tenth of an acre, or about a normal suburban lot for that many chickens to be happy.

Keeping an animal locked up for 6 weeks is not an act of compassion.

why did you steal someone's chickens?

put out a seperate dish. they'll eat what they need, when they need it.

thanks, that seems to fit her nicely after looking them up.

I would offer then a little bit of everything. Chickens will like all sorts of things. Tomatoes, sausage, meat trimmings, apple cores. . . Make sure you are also offering free choice chick grit, or they can't digest anything though.

bumping up for some more guesses.

You're right! I took her outside, and she's got a bit of brown flocking on her neck feathers.

Out of the pullet bin at the feed store, now feathered out a bit more. I've tried google, to no avail. Help me, my feathered gurus! oh, she is black, not grey.

oh, about 5 weeks 3 days ago. offer free choice grit and whatever you've got laying around. meat scraps, apple cores, tomato, whatever.

no idea, but it's always a good idea to get a chick used to being handled.