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Enjoyed your "what to feed as treats for chickens." I am curious why you state that sweet potatoes and yams do not have much protein, and that they had to be cooked. I used to feed my double-yellowhead parrot pealed chunks of raw sweet potato, and it was considered a nearly perfect complete...

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Thank you so much for sharing your considerable knowledge and research. I have found your posts all over what I was searching for. Just when I was about to pm you, I found the answer to my questions...online...in an answer you gave to someone last march concerning Valbazen. I have learned so...

It might help to consider that a hen's laying cycle is influenced by day length. Some people prefer to position the coop to maximize hens exposure the rays of the rising sun. This would help the hens get a longer exposure to sunlight. If the coop is to include electric lighting, this not a...

My 6 hens have the run of a half acre fenced back yard in an increasingly urban community. The orange yoke color is most prominent in the part of the year when there is an abundance of bugs and critters as well as greenery to feast on, in addition to an offering of balanced layer feed. The...

Listen to those crickets.

Like GldnValleyHens, I would never shoot a hawk. That doesn't prevent me, though, from firing off whistling bottle rockets (with report) at them when they come after my chickens. Those are not legal where I live, and I am not sure exploding them near the hawk in air actually prevents it from...

lol My easter egger is about five now. I didn't find a recent photo, but she is behind the Wyandotte in this holiday coop pic. Great hen. Wish I had a yard full just like her.

I have an easter egger with grey legs and that coloration; so they may well be easter eggers and could lay blue or bluish green eggs.

@WVduck &@ Mini, The second time I watched that piano playing chicken, I noticed a red light moving from the pecked key to the next one to be pecked. I wonder if the timing is manipulated in editing...pretty clever however it is done....and a pretty clever chicken no matter how it is put...

speaking of spectacular: This one made my day!

@hennible, I have an even smaller coup with now 9 large hens. Mine free range too, except when it rains days on end, or goes well below freezing and snowy. I do know the big English Orps really do need a bit more protein, but I have not heard that the Wyandottes do. I don't think Wyandottes...

Hennible, I have three SLW that are about 5 years old now. Never saw any feather picking. I wonder if your friend's birds have enough space? Or if they are homed together with the turkeys? I've lost three birds, including my favorite English Orp brood hen this fall. My neighbor gave me a...

You have some beautiful cattle dogs! What they love most is making you so happy. Congratulations!! Betty

@Raven, congrats to you and your Cemani cockerel!! That is very, very cool neighbor.

:frow Hi everyone checking in; I am just checking in. mahen

Those turkeys look awesome! (and so does the range) and I was comforted to hear the roo had a "real" flock of his own and not a flash frozen one. :)

Chickenmathitis. Incurable. Not to be confused with epizookitus, which it can cause it if sanitary conditions are not maintained.

Shucks. I really rehome all my roosters. It is no easy feat. I have to start when I am not even sure who is a roo and who isn't. It is what makes me think "never going to hatch again" until I forget and hatch again.