Recent content by TATTOOJOSH

well i dont know if you would call it giving treats but i give my ladies scraps similar to what you do. in fact i feed them on almost entirely scraps. everytime i walk near the coop they all gather by the front of the fence and expact me to throw them something, when i dont they go back to doing...

its happened to me before and i was told that especially with hens that are new to laying that it happens sometimes while they, for a lack of a better term, stretch out. mine were fine, but i was also told that if it keeps happening or you notice more blood in the nesting area then you may have...

after you give your coop a good cleaning and lay down new pine shavings get yourself some diatomaceous earth or DE for short. get a food grade DE and sprinkle that all over the coop. it will help naturally reduce all types of bugs. and you can even mix it in the chickens food as it is safe for...

they hold there food in the crop to grind up, so they Should have a bit of a lump. i dont think i have even seen a chicken without a lump unless it wasn't eating due to sickness. seems normal to me also, unless they are acting funny there probably good

this happened to one of my cheickens once. she was trying to flyout of the coop and caught one of her legs and bent it backwards a bit. it swelled up and never really got better. i tried even holding her and putting a warm wet cloth around it... an old fella told me to crush up an asprin and...

i use diatomaceous earth or DE. take a couple of scoops of food and put it in a bowl then add 2 tablespoons of DE to the food and mix it around. feed that mix to them 1 or twice a week or if you think they may have worms feed them the mix everyday for a couple of weeks and it should get rid of...

i have 13 chickens that are 6 weeks old. i have went through maybe 20 pounds of chick starter. they have access to it all day whenever they want. try letting your chicks out in the grass to pick at the grass and weeds and bugs or whatnot. also you can give them veggies and fruit... i usually...

i love it when my girls catch a worm...its like chicken football how they chase each other around and almost tackle each other...entertaining for sure

i have raised a few flocks so far in my life and the one thing i have noticed about feeding your chickens is they are kinda like goats and will eat more different kinds of things than you think. my chickens eat lettuce, weeds, grass, tomatoes cucumbers, raddishes, apples and all sorts of...