That's fine, people can choose whom they would like to trust.
Personally, I like to see measured quantities because my chickens and turkeys eat all sorts of stuff that would probably kill them in large enough doses.
Uhm. Is this how you feel about all scientific research?
So, the first four references in the link I posted above measured blood profiles during their studies. Eg. In the second link, they found decreasing red blood cell count after adding 5-15g/kg of garlic to their feed.
(Anemia = low red...
Are magpies predators? I thought they were scavengers. I don't think they would actually hurt an adult chicken.
The crows and ravens don't really protect chickens, but they will attack hawks and other raptors in their territory.
This wild turkey has a different color than the others, and is noticeably smaller. Normal wild-type variation, or did someone's domestic tom fraternize with the locals?
I have an inquisitive nature. I want to understand why alliums are listed as toxic, before taking the label at face value. Do you consider poultrydvm to be a veterinary site? https://poultrydvm.com/supplement/garlic
Some of the claims do seem bogus, but they are apparently based on...
I tried to track down the source for this claim, but could not find any studies that demonstrate toxicity. I did find this excerpt in Gail Damerow's Chicken Health Handbook:
If it makes you feel any better, I have 35 hens and I am getting 1-3 eggs per day this time of year. That's right, single digits. My maximum was about 24 in the spring.
I think you need to buy more chickens, but that's my answer to everything :D
This is what AI generated (I believe this is what @azygous is suggesting)
That got me thinking, what if I just replace one of the hoop coops with a vertical wall? Like, t-posts and cattle panels, standing lengthwise as they are meant to be used. With the same "roof", so it looks like a...
I have a cattle panel hoop coop (pics here). I would like to build a second one. Due to space constraints, they would need to be side-by-side, like this shape: nn
Out of frugality and laziness, I might like to have them share the center wall, so they look like this: m
Are there any downsides to...
Out of curiosity: Can lime water infiltration be identified through visual inspection? And does it ever happen to porous shells with no obvious cracks?
I just baked a batch of pancakes that taste seriously off. At first I thought I used too much baking soda, but there's something not right, and...
I know, it gets hot here. I didn't think about it at the time. I don't have a pantry or a closet that isn't attached to a bedroom, will have to think about where else they could go.
I'm already working my way through my third gallon of waterglassed eggs. At this rate, I'll be out by midwinter. These were glassed 6 months ago. So far zero rotten eggs, but maybe 5% have been bloody on the inside. Interesting. I wonder if they started developing during the warmest days of summer.
I put the shells out as soon as I use the eggs -- Not enough time for bacteria to proliferate. My chickens only eat flaked oyster shell, so that's what I buy for them.
Well, a few days turned into a few weeks. I'm not sure if I was overzealous with the crack or if the egg exploded in the container. But, somehow, the egg innards were outside of the egg.
It smelled rotten to me, so I took it to the far end of the yard and dumped it out. A chicken promptly ran...