Reviews by Shadrach

I liked this. It's well written, has more information in the links and most of all doesn't encourage the hysteria often associated with this disease.

It's a lovely article but lots of the information is wrong.

As usual TwoCrows has produced a well written and informative article.
The advice against using chicken wire I particularly liked. I see lots of coops and runs on the forums where chicken wire is used and it’s inviting a disaster.
The article is mainly built around large coops and while ventilation is very important for small coops off the ground such as I use, 1 sq foot of ventilation per bird would leave me with a wall missing.
The explanation of how air flows using roof vents is good; it’s how I build my small coops.
I would have liked to see recommendations for using sheet material for construction; this makes coops easier to clean and provides fewer hiding places for pests.
I’ve become a fan of bare floors in coops. I’ve found bare floors much easier for poop checks but once again, the type of coop you build will have a major bearing on whether this is or isn’t practicable.
It’s an almost impossible task to cover all coop types and this article covers the important ideas which with some thought could be applied to any coop build.
All in all an excellent article.

There are quite a few how to feed your flock articles on BYC. Unfortunately many follow the feed your chickens commercial feed and anything else is treats dogma.
Comparatively few who keep chickens in the wider world feed commercial feed; many here and elsewhere I have been, would be feeding their flock much as this article describes.
Chickens are omnivorous, it's one of their great survival advantages.
This article is going in my must read section.

I liked this article.
I’m interested in what the chickens here eat as they free range. While they are moulting for example they eat stuff I don’t usually see them eating otherwise.
I’m prepared to believe that many herbs, roots and bugs play a role in keeping chickens healthy. I just know very little about the subject.
The article itself would benefit from a few more pictures of the plants mentioned, but reading the experiences rather than a long list is fine.

A bit more detail and this would have been 5 star material.
A realistic view of keeping chickens and trying to adapt to nature rather than try to kill every predator.
The netting made me think of fish nets for run roofs. I can see how this may work better than a tight chicken wire arrangement which I have seen fail a few times on local farms here.

This is a good article. Here in Catalonia Fennel is used to treat sour crop and it does seem to work.
Good instructions on how to make the ‘tea’ and decent information on alternatives.

I really wanted to give this article 5 stars.
It’s well written by someone who is training as a vet and who has some knowledge of alternative treatments.
There are lots of articles here from people who have looked up information on the Internet, or from books and rehashed it for a BYC article. Articles base on experience are relatively few.
The problem for me is I want to know in what form and in what quantity to give theses herbs and spices and for how long.
Case studies of the effectiveness of treatments, even just as preventatives would also be good.

Very Helpful.

For most chicken keepers there comes a time when you need to administer medication, or tube feed a chicken.
It is incredibly easy to squirt liquid into a chickens lung if you are not aware of the chickens physiology. The pictures and text in this article show exactly where food and medication should go. For some medications it is important that the correct dose is given and mixing with food or water just isn’t an option. This article should help give the reader the confidence to make sure the correct dose does get given.

There is something about pictures of free range chickens taken in their living environment that ticks all the boxes for me. Some of these pictures have all the right ingredients imo.
I know there are loads of pics in the media section but I don’t tend to wade through them. Lots seem to be of rugrats and imo a baby chick beats a hairless baby for looks every time.

I thought this was a very good article. So many questions on the boards as winter approaches and most could be answered by reading this.
Despite the length of the article I didn’t find my attention wandered so I think it’s well written. I’ve got comparatively few articles in my must read list and this is going to join them.

And I thought I was the only person that did this.
Here it gets quite warm and I have to remember to wet the composting soil once in a while but otherwise the system works fine.

That's a great picture. it's so hard to believe how small the bird is.
We get gold crests here which are small but not that small.
Take some more pictures and post them here. I'll look at them.

I’m not a broody coop fan. I much prefer to let a hen do what they’ve been doing for centuries.
This article had some very good advice. It’s got balance and is well written.

I cook every day and I hate it.
I’ve made something like this before but didn’t know it had a name.
Lots of recipes here for sweet things but this is proper food. I’ll just have to see if I can squeeze a few eggs out of the still laying chickens and give this a try.

I have no idea if these recipes work. As the author states, there has been little research done in such areas. I can’t see how the ingredients in these recipes can harm a chicken and they may be beneficial in other areas even if they don’t act as a preventative measure against worms.
I liked this article. The author states quite clearly that this won’t cure worms. I may just try these recipes out.

I really enjoyed reading this. It doesn't get bogged down in the science and the narrative kept me reading. Good pics.

I'm a big fan of using sheet ply for coop building. Very thorough article and a good looking practical coop.

Get equiped for your chickens.

The article is fine but the coop and run are great.