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Great Article Thanx for the list Now I need to go shopping

Great Article Thanx for the list Now I need to go shopping

Great article! Thanx for all the invaluable information Haven't had any problems yet, but thanx to you I feel confident I will be able to help my chicks if the situation presents itself.

I use the deep litter method in my coop. I use pine shavings along with dried herbs and DE and just turn them over, to incorporate any poop, every day when I go out to collect eggs. I add more shavings as needed. I deep clean once a year, when I clear out all of the shavings, scrub any spots...

love this idea I'm all about doing things as close to "Mother Natures" way as possible, and this sounds like it's about as close as you can get without a broody hen hatching eggs the "old fashioned" way.

i use those products also to supplement my homemade grain feed mixture along with fresh greens and fruit, kitchen scraps, MWs, SFL, crickets and occasionally some cooked fish which they love Of course they have free access to grit and oyster shell and they have their own compost pile to dig...

i mix my own feed as well. I buy whole grains, non GMO from the feed store in 50# bags that store perfectly in 20gal steel garbage cans. It has cost me approx $60.00/yr for the grains I mix up batches as needed, each bach lasts about 10 days. The grains I use are 6 parts wheat, 3 parts oats...

#metoo. I'm starting off with a rooster and 2 hens. the rooster came from a local breeder on GA and the hens came from a breeder in Ohio. I hope to increase and sustaine my flock, on a much smaller scale, but like you am not necessarilly looking for "show quality " but am interested in trying...

This is my first time keeping chiickens. I started in March 2017 with 5 SLW chicks, hoping for 5 hens, but ended up with 4 roosters and one hen. Long story short i now have 2 gorgouse hens and one Beautiful gentleman rooster. I'm hoping to expand my flock this spring by having baby chicks the...

my dogs get all the meat and poultry scraps, but my chickens get all the fish and seafood scraps. they love oysters! this works well for us since my dogs dont like fish and i think feeding chicken to my chickens is just wrong!

I feed my chickens a mix of whole grains consisting of wheat, oats, sunflower seeds, millet, peas and flax seeds,which i soak over night then ad a bit of mollasses. I supplement wiith kitchen scraps, meal worms, fishing worms, and occasionally I let them bob for minnows. I grow greens in my...

Thanx for the link. I'll check it out. I'm hoping someone might want to introduce some new blood into their breeding stock. These are beautiful, healthy, strong birds and I hate to see them go in the stock pot because I can't find a new home for them.

Thanx, I'll do that.

Unfortunately that's not an option for me. My coop is not big enough and I don't have the resources, strength or energy to keep enough hens to satisfy 4 roosters. Maybe 30 years ago I could have considered that. Lol

I've finally decided to join the group, after reading your articles and posts for the last 2 years. I'm a new chicken owner, just got my first "straight run" SLW chicks this past March from a breeder,and thanks to the knowladge I gleened from all your members, everything whent GREAT. We never...