Recent content by Lisa808

Thank you!

I just dosed my 3 backyard chickens with fenbendazole dewormer for 5 days in a row. Do you recommend they get dosed again for 5 days after 10 days off?

Love that. -- "Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?"

So maybe there is hope for my Wyandottes that lay medium-ish eggs! :)

The ingredients listed in VetRx include camphor. So maybe VetRx should not be used either? Active Ingredient(s): Made with 3.3% (v-v) alcohol U.S.P. The mixture contains Canada balsam, camphor, oil origanum, oil rosemary, blended in a corn oil base.

I read somewhere that chickens need a certain amount of sunlight in order to lay eggs. Is that true? Because, if so, I'm in trouble now that I built my heavy chicken coop on the shaded side of my house. It gets full sunlight only in the morning, then it's shade until evening.

Hi everyone. I'm Lisa. My family is new to raising backyard chickens. We have two 6-week old chicks that look like mini-chickens now. My daughter and I just HAD to get the cute little chicks before we had a chicken coop. Now, my darling hubby and I are racing to finish the coop and run. We...