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I really like the style of the nest boxes! Let us know how the chickens like them. My chickens like to keep the eggs moving around...I think they want to keep them for themselves!

So sorry to hear - we have lost chickens over the years to predators and, since all of them are much more pets than poultry, we cry and mourn them all. We do close up all our chickens and two Guineas in coops at night, which keeps a lot of them safer, but in the day they often get our in the...

Hello, it has been a while since we had new chicks, so I am back to brush up on chicklet care! We have had chickens for about 11 years on the prairie here in Kansas. We have 5 new Easter eggers and 5 silver Wyandottes. This bunch will be getting their feathers trimmed so they will not fly...

"You might want to be sure and worm those peachicks soon. I found worms in a baby that died. I wouldn't worry except I also read that they can be infected through the egg. I just want to make sure they stay well. I have only had a problem in the pen where the Mom and Dad are raising their chicks...

Frizzled - great idea! I'm thinking maybe to use one of those propane "wands" to burn the soil where the plants were this year, too. They say the bugs winter over. Evil things!

Cherwill: next year I am going to be using lots of tangle-foot - hoping to stick them to the spot where they can't do any/much harm before they die. Same with the cucumber beetles - they fly to bright yellow - squash-blossom color so I am going to try and hang bright-yellow orange traps up...

"I'm having a lot of trouble with my neck. I've had too many surgeries on it and I am fearing I may have to have another one. I can't seem to get prescription pain pads to stop the pain and they work better than anything. I feel like an old bear right now. It's hard to act decent when my head...

Regarding the sick birds that won't get well - can't do any harm to dose them with Grapefruit Seed Extract! I think it is great for everything, and can't hurt.

Josie - we use Southern LP Gas - kind of a mom and pop deal on highway 160 just west of Winfield. They have been so great with us - I can't recommend them too highly!

Someone here mentioned using a combination of essential oils as flea and tick repellent. Can you please post the recipe or pm me the recipe? I sure could use it especially now that I have 4 dogs. I would really like it, too - and not only for the dogs. I am considering buying the net...

22Q - yep - that's the one I use, too. The same company sells several "already made" products such as nasal spray with GSE and I think something for ears. Purely on a personal experience, I took a couple of the tablets on vacation when I ate some bad lunchmeat and had awful headache and...

Out of the Brooder - I just started using lots of coconut oil and it may be my second favorite! When we put chickens in tonight we had quite a bit of aggression from our Egyptian Fayoumi cockerel. He is small but all the others from his peer group run from him now. He may have to have a new...

Lizzy - I am a pretty much Earth-mother type and so I use natural stuff as often as possible. I use Grapefruit seed extract for everything (google its uses - I even have a book about it somewhere around here.) Anyway, it is quaternary antibiotic - it kills bacteria and some viruses - it is...

Danz - how do you lose your chickens? We had a dog down the street kill ours a couple of times, and stray dog once, but mostly it is coyotes. Here is off topic advice: I am the allergy queen, so I read everything about them that I can...this year year I read about stinging nettle soup (fresh...

Thanks, Farmerchef! Glad to know who is who!

I have a roo that was supposed to be a pullet, but we cannot figure out what breed he is. He is skinny and tall, but still young. Absolutely a jumpy thing - we named him "Rocket J. Rooster" because he is so squirrely! Our two older hens are big and we thought they were Delawares, but I...

Cherwill - I have to drive with the cruise control on at all times! As you probably remember, "55mph" is an average in CA - if you have to drive for 5 miles at 30 mph, then you can go 80 to catch up - hopefully, the average is around 55! Here there are far too few cars in front of me to keep...

Hi, I was born in LA, lived my grade school years in Redondo Beach, and a couple of years in Manitou Springs, CO. Then we moved to Santa Ana near Edinger and Euclid, by Fountain Valley and Mile Square Park. I lived all over OC when I was an adult, and for a few years in Visalia, on the road...

Aww...thank you! Glad to have him come! I work in Engineering where the guys keep the place running as smoothly and a very old facility can run. I personally pay the service and maintenance contracts and do many other things to keep us all going. I saw two military guys on my trip home from...