Recent content by PFGray
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Anybody have any ideas for chicken entertainment?
Here's one that we came up with years ago. A medium-sized cardboard box, maybe 16 inches on each side, with straw in the bottom. In our case it's inside the house, between the woodstove and the back door. Our birds love to climb in, scratch and turn around, and just revel in the experience. The...- PFGray
- Post #224
- Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
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Choosing a Rooster
We only have about 10 years' experience with chickens, but it's been rather intensive experience... I'd say the rules about roosters should be taken as general guidelines; there are wide variations. For a while, we had 3 roosters, by hatchery accident, and 10 hens. That went okay, but there was...- PFGray
- Post #3
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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sulfur powder against lice/mites?
Most of ours are very easy to pick up and hold, so we put a few handfuls of DE in a floppy rubber garden bucket, hold the girl with her head under one arm, and just rub a bunch of dust all over her butt and into any other loose-feathered areas we can reach. We've tried putting dust in a paper...- PFGray
- Post #11
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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sulfur powder against lice/mites?
I've seen sulfur dusting powder for controlling fungal blight on garden plants, and that should work the same, but it's not always available, and it's much more expensive than necessary. You can look up "sulfur powder" on Amazon, for example...- PFGray
- Post #8
- Forum: Managing Your Flock