This year I ordered California Grays and Buckeyes. I want white eggs to fill out the cartons and the Grays seem forage better than the typical leghorn crosses. I really am looking forward to getting Buckeyes. I need the mouser in them. Looked out at the girls the other morning to see a fat...
Over the 5 years I have raised chickens I have settled on Texas Natural GMO free pelleted 18% protein feed that I have started feeding fermented. Scratch daily in the AM made from wheat, milo and BOSS. I also toss about 3 C into the fermenting feed. They also get "treat" daily in the evening...
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Since installing the electric fence I am comfortable in stating that I have lost no more chickens to wandering dogs. I can account for the three chickens that are no longer with me, and it seems that the chickens do not visit my neighbors nearly as much as they did. I must keep...
I emphasize with your frustrations over the visiting chickens. I am getting my chickens under control, but it is expensive because I need to provide a large enough enclosed yard. I have free ranged my chickens since moving to the country, (no HOA or laws against ownership to deal with) and my...
This is from and old post I made, but in case it comes up for some one, this is how I resolved the problem with getting produce for my chickens. After the girls ate up what I had in my garden, I put my pride aside and asked a local deli type eatery if I could pick up their prep waste a couple...
Once I get the "aviary" constructed I might clip wings to keep them from getting entangled in the net/shade clothe roof. Will see how they react to a limited sky. I watch them in the evenings roost along the garden fence(6' chain link) and observe the day winding down before they go to the coop...
As I was writing a response I realize about the only viable option is to convert their yard that has a 4 ft fence into one with a 6 ft fence and shade cloth roof. That also means I will have to reduce the flock to only 25 birds, giving each bird 90 sq feet. In the mean time I will try a...
...at night, the coop is locked securely.
3. I can't hit the broad side of a barn, the gun is just a scary noise maker. If I should every hit a **** dog, it will be SSS. I am not going to discuss the issue with my wondrous Texas neighbors.
4 My kindly neighbor suggested getting heavy breeds and...
Your knee problem was one of the big things that kept me from replacement surgery for a long time, but last year I did the left knee and other than the skin nerves that still get wonky, my knee and I are good friends. Thinking about getting the right knee done this year, but knowing me it will...
...the way the mount the hen, most tend to wear on the hens feather above the tail, often leaving just the downy feathers, but my recently deceased (**** dogs) rooster would stand higher on the hens backs damaging the feathers on the wings. My girls look rather ratty but aren't molting and...
With you additional comment I think he was shedding the last of his juvenile feathers before growing his adult plumage. I have noticed my pullets doing that about a month before they start laying.
Layena, the brand name for a number of poultry foods including Feather Fixer is a Nutrena Animal Feed product. For all the raves, it still contains GMO grains, Nutrena has no GMO free feeds. I am picky about GMOs because it has been demonstrated that GMOs can affect fertility, and egg laying...
If you wish to feed you girls yogurt, and folks keep preferring "Greek" yogurt, that is a great source of protein. If you are fortunate to have dairy animals, making your own yogurt from excess milk can keep the protein boost cheap. If you are like me and buy milk, you can still make yogurt...
I am still reading so you may have already had this info, but the only way to get GMO free feed with our current labeling standards is to buy organic. Organic standards prohibit GMO grains or other foods. Most non GMO feed providers will tell you that they are either corn and soy free (the 2...
Be sure to thank him every time you go! For over a year and a half I had been getting couple boxes a week from one of the grocers until some idiot had an altercation over the barrels going out before he could get his free stuff. The guy getting the 55 gal barrels of produce waste paid for it...
I can relate to the Weed Patch garden. I have 4 hens that literally follow me around when I have my mattock, trowel and buckets on my walker. They circle the the area I am am clearing, awaiting any bug that is exposed and race to grab it.. They have spent hours with me as I have cleared the...
Our Nosy Noter from Chicken City shared that Miss Stink was spotted sitting in the dog kennel this afternoon - no eggs believed to be in there with her. Maybe the dark shade was a simply pleasant place to rest. Annie-Not looked like she was celebrating when she returned from her constitutional...
I hate this editor. I lose so many messages because I bump the mouse and it leaves the page. So let me try again.
I have 6 nest pads that have been in continuous use for 3 years now, and will last probably as many years. I put shredded paper in the coops and nest boxes, I shred much of it...
I hope that all is well with you Mrs Chckendad, and that you have simply been busy taking care of the babies.
Life in Chicken City has been on the upswing. More egg customers! I have two that are willing to drive to the house to get the eggs. So nice, and easy on me. It is just about summer...
Annie-not has been broody and sitting on her feet for weeks in the coop, and would not accept a nest of eggs in the large dog kennel I have for nesting mamas. So I finally gave her 6 eggs, and let her sit in "her" nest box. Well the 6 eggs jumped to 9, and then 4 eggs were kicked out, and...