My neighbors medicate for worms and anything else they can think of and have more problems than I've ever seen. Worms in the eggs!
We have used Apple Cider Vinegar (either homemade or the real stuff from the store) and have never had any health issues with our birds.
When I say the "real...
MyPetChicken has Birchen Maran hatching eggs. I was looking for hatching eggs a couple of week ago and saw them.
SInce I wasn't looking for chicks I didn't look for them, but you might check them out.
Today, in addition to their regular mash, scratch and meal worms, the hens got a mix of rice, Chinese vegetables and noodles, a stale piece of cake, and a bowl of crab/corn chowder. Basically, yesterday's leftovers :)
We thought about composite shingles, then decided on a metal roof for our coop. Now, 3 months later we are glad we did.
We live in the middle of a National Forest. The Forest Service did a prescribed burn that got a bit out of hand. Our neighbors chicken coop roof caught fire from embers...
We have coyotes, bobcats, panthers, cougars, plus your regular chicken killers (raccoons, skunks, hawks). In three years we have not lost one bird to a forest predator.
We have since figured out the less our neighbors secure their birds, the less we see anything hanging around our chicken...
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Its hardware cloth. The building 16's 24'. We have have temp covers over the openings now due to cold weather we have had. We will be making covers of wood that will go up and down easily. However, we have had driving rains and wind an without the covers the nest boxes and chickens all...
Actually we have thought about that or an automatic water system. The drawback for now is how to inject the Apple Cider Vinegar (always) and/or Cayenne Pepper (when it's really really cold) we put in their water.
Thanks!
Unfortunately, she is not close by (3 hour drive). But her mom and dad are AWESOME about brining her up to visit and I got to keep her for a week while they went on a trip and then a couple of long weekends. The rest of the time was me driving down to see them :D
She and I video chat every...
I am very proud of the work he did! He is not a builder at all and this thing is rock solid!
Our neighbors thought it was a guest house with all the work he was putting into it :)
This was in November the weekend of her first birthday.
She walked for the first time at our house ;)
Current flock as of August 2016 - we had a dog massacre just before this was taken and lost 6 hens
Red Sex Link, Leghorns, Easter Eggers, Australorps, Buff Orpingtons,
Welsummers, Rhode...
Today - a huge loaf of homemade bread that came out a bit too done for my taste, half a head of lettuce, veggie scraps from dinner last night and a few eggs scrambled (I save up the ones with cracks or imperfections and feed them back every few days). Plus their daily meal worms and scratch...
Hello, again, from Grapeland (between Crockett & Palestine).
Happy to be back after a year away. New granddaughter came and she just stole my attention.
Our flock has grown and we have eggs under hens at the moment for hatching.
Our little adventure into chickens has been a blast and I...
My new coop. I am so proud of it. My hubby did it all on his own and took about 6 months working weekends only.
It has cement and rebar under all the exterior walls and across the door opening which keeps things out very well.
We have covers to go over the hardware cloth openings in the winter...
Today my hens got an apple parfait :) Yogurt, chopped apples and some sunflower seeds on top.
One of their favorites.
Tonight they will get their mealworm/scratch mix just before bedtime.
Lisa
Grapeland, TX