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I have read a post somewhere here about human way of culling chicken. Put them to sleep first and then cull ..or something.. I don't want them to suffer, so if anyone could point me to that thread/article/post would be thankful.

I have been looking into ways of growing my own protein rich food for the chicken. I have tried superworms. Found them really addictive, chicken go crazy about them, but just as someone mentioned they have fat... So I am now looking into several other options - Lemna, grasshoppers and BSF...

This went viral on the Internet, so I am curious.. What breed is Tosha?

So I will be going to superworms as a protein source for my chicken. I don't want to overfeed them though thus I looked at the protein requirements per hen. On the Internet I found a hen needs 108grams of protein per day. Do you think that's correct? I know the weight of a superworm and it has...

I read someone here feeding their chicken on rice only, so I am thinking of replacing wheat with rice. I do feed them other things as well - corn, cockspur grass, layers pellets, etc. + they are free range. So will row rice be better for the chicken than wheat?

Does anybody know anything more about triticale? I have read the Wikipedia, but it doesn't provide me information re: is it better than wheat for chicken? They are at the same price here so I am wondering which one should I buy - wheat or triticale?

I have 2 quick questions 1. Rice is cheap where I am, so I am feeding my chicken with 20% rice, rest is sprouting Wheat and about 5% corn. I am giving calcium as well. Should I reduce the rice or keep it to 15-20%? 2. Very popular on the chicken market here is Cockspur grass. Chickeners buy it...

I have a pair of Red golden pheasants. Last week the male escaped and flew out in the wild (I live in a rural area). Today though he came back and was around the fence, I suppose hungry and thirsty, trying to come back in the garden. I tried to catch him, no success and he flew out again in the...

This chick hatched today by mama pure black Silkie. I would like to know if the father is one of my two Silkie roosters OR a LF rooster messed up the hatch. I have not hatched Silkies before so don't know... Do you think the father is a Silkie or doesn't look like it?

I am looking for an article on Sexing peachicks. What to look at, etc. I have one which I thought is a boy (hatched in May this year), but just now a peafowl breeder told me it could be a girl, as the green/blue neck color doesn't matter. @KsKingBee ...anyone? I will post pictures of the...

Is there anywhere (difficult to believe nobody has done it yet) a classification of chicken breeds per egg size? I e. I would like to know which chicken breeds lay largest eggs. Thank you

There is a product called Fitomite by Chemipharma, I think it is Italian. It is a herbal mix which is added to water, chicken drink it and then presumably they are mites free. I used it last year and it didn't work for me as the effect of the herbal mix is that it changes the chicken blood...

This year one of my turkeys went broody for the first time. She chose a nest in the coop and I put 13 eggs under her. Every day a chicken hen would lay an egg in the same nest where the turkey was, even though there were other free nests. 3 days before hatching day the chicken hen decided she...

I was buying wheat the other day and another customer in the shop told me he feeds his chicken barley only. Barley and wheat are the same price here, but I don't know which one is better. Any article/post that I could read? Picture of barley...

So on a TV show here they showed a chicken breed with feathers growing forward, not backwards as usual. I don't remember the name of the breed and I don't have pictures as it was on a TV show. Do you know any such breed?

I finally have fertile pheasant eggs in the incubator (after two unsuccessful attempts last year). Just need a confirmation of the lockdown date. I set the eggs on May 8th, is Lockdown on May 29th?

I have several hens almost stripped naked by the roosters. I have separated them from the roosters and I would like to feed them with food that stimulates feathers regrowth. I know "high in protein" is the standard response and I am feeding them with a feed which has 17% protein, but can I add...

Do you know if these are real or photoshopped? What breed are they?

So we found a peafowl.. The WHITE one on the video. Does anybody know what breed it is? Latin name maybe? Also, he/she looks young, I think less than a year old. He/she makes some strange sounds (I have not recorded though), not sure if it is crowing (do peacocks crow???), no egg laying. How do...

I have my very first broody turkey. She has been in the nest for 2 days now and I will purchase fertile turkey eggs (as I don't have a male) and put them under her. Question - how many turkey eggs should I put under the broody turkey? I was also told every 4th day I need to take her out for a...