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Hi all, What do you think about eating 17 month old RIR roosters? I have three 17 month old roosters that I would like to butcher and just hatched another two roosters along with 4 girls. Have they gotten to tough? What would be some good recipes?

I have this one hen, she is my absolute favorite! she loves me so much! i hand feed her, and hold her no problem! Im on vacation and I in trusted my mom to take care of her! last night my hen wouldn't go into the coop even with feed! she was so scared of my mom that it got dark and my mom could...

Im so sorry for the late reply I have been very busy. Any way the recipe isn't something that kills the mites right away, it might kill 100 a day. Hope this helps!

first off, I LOVE your username! I have a 4ft by 8ft coop with a 4ft by 10 ft run attached to it! do you want me to upload a pic of it? I have 1 cm by 1 cm hardware rug on the floor for ease of clean. The solution combined with wood ash is VERY good please whip up a batch of it!

I just let the chickens bath in the wood ash, and spray the coop with the solution

no, all you do is spray the solution in the coop and put the ash in the dirt bath!

do you all think it is coccidosis? and Mighty max he is thin in real life!

thanks so much for the help! I will buy duramycin! I will do the apple cider vinegar and hard boiled eggs and yogurt! your chickens are AMAZING!! I was thinking the reason he is small is because he has small parents!

No I dont I just use fresh water from the hose I do clean it daily. I use standard southern states pelleted layer feed. unfortunately he is playing"hard to get" but I looked at his eyes everything is fine there but his comb is flopped over! if it is worms how should I treat it???

so this is a pic of my 21 week old Rhode Island Red rooster! I let my chickens out today, and I noticed this one looked really lethargic! So I followed it around until it went to the bathroom and I inspected the poop and it looked like coccidiosis(white mucusy diahrea)! so I was researching it...

where could I get the 18 gauge needle? would tractor supply have it?

sorry it is really hard to get a good pic I think I found what is wrong!

so my rhode island red hen has a wierd sack under her left wing it feels like what a crop would feel like if the chicken had sour crop, but it is not the crop! She acts fine im just wandering what it is!

So here is a curious question, I was thinking if I feed my chickens crushed grain in lieu of pelleted grain, would the pieces be small enough that they don't need grit to chew it up?

so yesterday I checked on my chickens and found that one of my 21 week old hens broke her wing! it is summer here and it averages 80s-90s, and I don't want to make the chicken over heat. So is there an alternative way to help the wing heal without impacting the natural cooling system? Or should...