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Hi, we have separated the roosters we are sending to have slaughtered and are wondering what we can feed them that will fatten them up nicely and improve their taste. We got day-old chicks at the beginning of May and they were all on organic chick starter, then chick grower and at about 20 weeks...

That's good to know. I also asked a neighbour who used to keep a lot of chickens and he said the key to keeping roosters together peacefully is to keep the entertained. He used to put a big pile of dirt/aged manure outside for them to pick through, and he would thread twine through apples and...

Well, it's done now... I guess the decision about how to organize the flocks has now been made for me. Our children's caregiver closed up the coops last night but left the gate between the outdoor runs open. This morning my husband, trying to do me a favour, let the chickens out but didn't...

Hi everyone, I am wondering how to organize my flock with the least amount of stress & fighting. We've only ever had hens. Last winter we hatched some eggs and got 3 roosters to add to our 22 hens. The roosters get alone fine together. In May, we got 60 day-old birds (unsexed) and have a...

Hi, I just picked up more than 60 chicks from Performance Poultry, which is in Carrying Place between Brighton and Belleville. Probably around 90 minutes from you. Check out their website -- they have lots of great varieties of chicks. Ours are all healthy & vigorous. The only problem is they...

Hi Everyone: We're in Erin, about an hour NW of Toronto. We got our first chickens last year: 12 Red Sex Links from Freys and 12 Chantecler pullets from a breeder (from which we hatched 7 eggs because the pullets had been kept with roosters). Just last week we got 62 chicks from Performance --...

Hi, it really does cost a lot more to raise happy, healthy, hormone- and pesticide-free birds. First, factory farms make their profits on economies of scale. They have many thousands of birds in a very confined area -- cages so small the birds can't even stand up straight or turn around. They...

greenrfamilyfarm: Maybe you could have said she only lays Easter Eggs -- like the Cadbury Creme Eggs, in the commercial!

These chicks are all about a week old now: 18 Buff Orpingtons, 18 Jersey Giants, 8 White Chanteclers, 8 Partridge Chanteclers, 12 Ameraucanas. Every time I look at them they seem bigger!

Right now, we are in the middle of a (so far) completely peaceful integration of our 2 flocks. One flock consists of 20 birds we got as pullets last year and the other is 7 birds we hatched from eggs produced by the pullets. The young ones are 6 months old now and there are 3 roosters & 4 hens...

Yes, there is only one rooster but he will be very young so I don't know how he or the other hens will react -- I've been reading about other people's experiences on this site and now I'm nervous! I'll make sure to put the feed & waterers well spaced out. Thank you!

We got a dozen Chantecler pullets last October to join our dozen year-old Red Sex Links. Their eggs had been fertilized so we decided to incubate some of them and hatched 7 chicks in November. We've managed to keep them warm & healthy all winter and one of them is a rooster. So far, we've kept...

I just got her to drink some more of the water containing electrolytes and antibiotics. She is now eating and seems brighter but is still waddling when she walks. She had a watery yellow liquid squirt out of her twice last night -- not much, it wouldn't fit inside a whole egg -- but there were...

Please help! I have noticed a chicken nesting on the floor of the coop, on and off, for a couple of days but she didn't seem to be in discomfort & seemed to be eating. Yesterday it was obvious she was in distress -- wings out, walking with a funny waddle, tail down. I thought she was eggbound...

Thanks for the input. I've been giving them carrots, cabbage and other fruit & veggie peelings but I'll add some of the other things listed. I put out some corn for them in the yard yesterday. Most of the people I know who have chickens don't keep them over the winter -- they buy pullets in the...

Hi, I have a dozen Red Sex Links and 10 Chantecler hens. I had been told that the Red Sex Links stop laying in winter, and only lay regularly for about a year. I got them as pullets in the spring and they are still laying regularly even though it's now December and below freezing. To top it off...