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A little about me to get things going! I started detoxing my house and anything I put on my skin about five years ago, I think. I have a lovely herb garden that helps with ingredients for cleaning and healing balms, deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, and so forth. Finally getting chickens was...

Ok I am beginning to think I would love some ducks>I have six chickens which I adore but Stephen on that "No idea what I am doing" thread has called my attention to ducks. Here is the stuation: My chickens have a nice coop and run but I am not sure if ducks fit in that scenario. Chickens...

I have posted about my broody GLW before. She has been broody all spring and summer it seems. I try to break her by putting her in the broody jail. After three days she joins the flock. A week later she is on the nest again. Over and over again...this has happened at least six times. I have...

ok, my chickens are fine. However, I have a question~! I recently went to a heritage town where they keep chickens and other livestock. Well, I love this idea and the town, but I looked at their Barred Rocks and nearly all of the chickens (there were about ten) had featherless RED butts. I knew...

I can't click on links in my sig and so would have to cut and paste to see those links...

Well my lovely Wyandotte has gone broody again...she is sitting in the nest box this time and keeping eggs warm and not out with the flock. Soooo, there is no rooster, these eggs are not fertile and I am not hatching. Yesterday I took her (easily) out of the nest box (she is very docile) and...

Besides the garden hose? Here is part of an earlier thread: Lol that is a lot of work with the spray bottle! I think I will post a thread on this question re: natural deterrents, although I suspect there are not many...some wise soul may have an answer. Meanwhile, deer netting or standalone...

Fermenting alfalfa cubes is done just the same as with fermenting chicken feed. If you want a faster start with the cubes, add a little of the fluid from the fermented feed. I take 4-5 alfalfa cubes to a 2 quart glass container and fill about 3/4 with water to start with ( don't fill completely...

Mm, well, as things go this is relatively minor, I know. But I spied an oddity on my Wyandotte's rose comb. The back spike was sticking up and then I saw another chicken pecking it once. I brought her inside, wiped with saline solution. There was a bit of blood on the cotton ball. I put triple...

My six chix are a week away from one year. So on their birthday they go from pullets to hens! Yay! They all began laying at about 20 weeks right on the money. They are now after their winter molt all laying 2.0 oz eggs, an increase from pre-moult. They were purchased from a feed store, so...

It is snowing here, and I have about a foot of snow on the ground, and chickens and I are new to how to be chickens in winter. I am not shoveling much, so what I have done is scatter straw to make little pathways. They are following the paths and foraging in the wheat straw. They have...

I know this is going to sound weird. Thanks for your tolerance! I roasted a locally pastured turkey (not mine) for Christmas and froze the carcass after removing most of the meat. Today, I am making one of my favorite things with the carcass: Bone Broth. This will be frozen. I have done...

Hi Everyone! I live, with six chickens, in what I like to call Deep Northwest Montana. This is my first winter with chickens. I have had quite a bit of concern over humidity and ventilation in the coop as winter approached. So on good advice on this forum, I purchased a hygrometer/thermometer...

Yep, and then this happened. Yesterday. So I figured I better post it in the Turkey Forum as there are quite a few pics! How do you all like my new Wild Turkey Flock (lol)? That is a Mountain Ash tree they are in. I am surrounded by tree roosting birds...

So hi everyone, it is dropping below zero at nights here! Chickens are doing well, so far. I have no extra heat, lights etc. I am feeding them warmed food and warm water in the morning and a bit of scratch in the evening, and a bit of suet during the day. So an idea popped in my head to maybe...

i am looking to purchase an indoor/outdoor weather station. The outdoor part will monitor conditions inside the coop. I need an outdoor humidity gauge (hygrometer). Min/Max would be great too~ And not uber expensive: I want to monitor temp and humidity IN the coop remotely! So I thought I...

Hi there all, I would love your take/input on the chicken molting process my flock is undergoing, as it is the first adult molt and the weather is going to get get quite cold very soon: Tis the season as I understand it for molting. This is my first flock and the first adult molt. The...

Will try to post proper details here.... I found out about an electric fence reimbursement program in parts of the Rocky Mountain States: I am super excited to learn recently about an Electric Fencing Incentive Program. There are many bears in my neighborhood and they are waking up. New...

This is the old-fashioned stuff I love to do, and I have had some inquiries, so I am posting the recipe: Why do it? It prevents lice and mites, and has a small-antibacterial effect. Whitewash recipe: For one gallon: One gallon warm water, mix in two cups table salt til dissolved. Add and...

I am super excited to learn recently about an Electric Fencing Incentive Program. There are many bears in my neighborhood and they are waking up. New chicken owner here.... No food outside, no garbage, food taken in every night, coop like Fort Knox...hardware cloth? Doesn't matter. Perimeter...