Recent content by dsedler

There is also Tewes, which is in Erlanger (N. Kentucky). 859-341-8844 Last time I was there it was $2/bird Super nice people!

I feed Kalmbach layer crumbles and have for years now. Mine do great on it. It's quite a bit cheaper than Purina and when I was feeding Purina, I kept getting bags that were more dust than crumble and the chickens didn't eat it as well. I can't compare it to the Dumor, because I never have...

This is actually fairly normal for any building that has a metal roof without insulation. I have a pole barn that does not have the roof insulated and mine does the same thing. Usually in the morning when the sun first starts hitting the roof and making the roof warmer than the air on the...

Quote: I followed this recipe. I didn't want to be baking anything and this just sits in the fridge until it gets hard. I then let it sit on the counter for a day or 2 until it dries out a little bit. I used some old horse supplement buckets instead of the bundt pan, and it turned out...

Well, I know that when I get it on myself, I use eye makeup remover to get it off. I have no idea how safe that would be for chickens tho. Good luck. It does seem to get everywhere no matter how careful you are.

I bought the first one and like someone else said, I could never figure out how tight/loose the lid had to be to let the water come out. If you have it too tight, no water comes out at all. If it's too loose, the water doesn't stop coming out until it is completely empty and you have a flood...

Nope, the yolk didn't come out when I tipped it. The membrane across the top was pretty thick. So far today I've only gotten regular eggs. I'm just glad I got it before someone stepped on and broke it. Must have been interrupted mid-production:)

They will eat the scratch before they eat the layer food, even if it's underneath. It would be like putting broccoli on top of cupcakes in front of a 6 year old. They will push aside the good stuff to get to the junk. Scratch should only be fed as a treat, a little at a time. Put out a...

I got this egg on Saturday. It does have a very thin outer shell with just the membrane covering the top. I didn't break it open, but it does seem like it had a yolk. Looked perfectly normal except it was missing a top. I have 16 chickens who just started to lay about 2 weeks ago...

Yep, mine is a converted stall in the horse barn. View of the whole barn from the outside. The inside of the barn before the coop was built. The stall at the end on the left is what eventually becomes the coop. The outside before the run was built. The inside door to the coop. Inside...

No, not even for just a few weeks. In just a few weeks, you could have some dead birds. Figure out a way to make your food inaccessable to the sparrows. Don't kill your chickens just to try and get rid of birds. Or, maybe feed the birds birdseed somewhere far away from the chicken food...

Ya know, I was going to make the same comments about the corn making them hot. I have heard the same thing over and over. However, I tried to do a search about it and could find nothing that says where this myth came from or why it is not true. Can anyone point me somewhere that would explain...

Well, I know mine love black oil sunflowers, not sure about the others. However, it is not suitable as the only source of feed. I just give it as a treat.

I switched over to layer feed at 19 weeks, for the same reason you are wanting to. They are now 21 weeks and have just started laying this week. It does seem like forever for that first one. I was so excited when I found the first one. I emailed a picture to everyone I know:)