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Also sweet meadow feed and grain in sherbon ma.

I have purchased chicks from Shamrock farm in Mendon ma. Always got healthy certified disease free birds. You can find them on facebook

Cleaning out a bunch of hollow gourds would the seeds be a healthy snack for my chickens they love every other type of squash seed I give them

I have an invasive morning glory that I believe should be on the bad to eat list. My birds ignore it. I also purchased a bag of clover seed for their yard area but it came coated. Tough to keep the yard green.

I use branches but still have a couple of gals that pile into the nest. Throw them out every night at dusk otherwise I get dirty eggs the next morning. Would love to solve that problem.

I kept rabbits years ago inside a chicken wire hutch. Came out one morning to the massacre your worried about and yes the wire was attached very well. I’m guessing the culprit was either a fisher cat or raccoons. My chickens now reside in a very solid coop with a run totally enclosed in 1/2...

I started blocking the nest box by jamming a slightly deflated Basketball in the opening just before dusk and pulling it out each morning coincidentally by girls started laying this week love those warm days.

I will do that. Being a few years into retirement age I don’t jump down of anything anymore either. Come on spring

No ladder I should design something to that effect. She is a gentle giant I adopted a few years back.

I have more than one that sleeps in the nesting box but the main culprit in an old very large hen who doesn’t like to fly and hits the ground with a thump if I don’t place her down gently. I understand her not getting up on the roosting bars(2) but I need to keep her out of the box. The smaller...

Sorry about the poor English my keyboard is acting up

This question probably belongs in the chicken behavior forum but I like to see the activity in our Mass. thread. Does anybody else have hens that sleep in a nesting box instead of up on their roosting bars and if so what have you done to stop the habit. I have tried blocking the nest several...

good reminder thanks for the article.

Thank you all. I learned how to search this forum. What a fabulous resource back yard chicken can be.