Here is a link to a nice balanced discussion of chick feed: medicated vv. non-medicated.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/754189/hatching-the-facts-on-medicated-chick-starter-feeds-for-layers
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Hello, Welcome to the beautiful world of chicks!!
your local farmstore will have feed called, chick starter. Whichever type they have will be fine. Others may chime in about organic, medicated, non-medicated, booster vitamins, silky specific ideas, etc. Choose a style best suited for you...
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If you do have more than one rooster, if one is a Welsummer, the other should be another Welsummer or one of a large breed.
I had one each of Welsummer and Australorp roos who fought all the time. anything smaller than the Australorp would be injured or killed by a Wellsummer who...
Yes, the bird netting will keep in the flock. I have plastic netting from TSC called deer netting which has 1 inch openings and is light weight which has kept out the hawks and kept the birds in.
the two concerns are high winds which blow mine around as I have it across a 20' opening with...
Hello, my take is that either way is fine for a 30 min ride home. Just be sure to leave openings for air and not to get too hot in the van if in a cardboard box. I have transported in box and the chickens settle down in the dark and do just fine.
Good Luck!
I am posting this picture for help with breed. Sorry for only one picture, but it seems to be the only one which will upload.
This apparently was my mystery chick as it is not one of the recognizable breeds which I ordered from Welp.
As a chick it resembled the brown leghorns and the...
Thanks for the rplies about broody wellies!
So, it does appear to be unusual to have all three of mine exhibiting broodiness at once. My family is due to vacation soon, so I am going to try to break the broody hens. Failing that, I will let them have a few eggs to start while we are gone...
Hello, I have a question about my welsummer pullets. I hope that a question about becoming broody is appropriate for this thread.
My three welsummers, who were hatched 15 September 2010, are all acting broody--two more so than the third. But all three are sitting in the nest boxes on eggs of...
Just yesterday I was in TSC and checked the feed prices in Anderson, SC. Layena layer pellets 50# was up to $14.69 and Dumor brand was $13.29 or $13.49 (cn't remember which). My local feed store in Iva, SC still sells Bartlett layer pellets 2 50# for about $25. So feed prices appear to be...
Yes, If one wants a set amount of egg production, one should definitely order sexed pullets. Even with good odds and luck, the set amount of eggs may not be achieved.
I ordered from Welp this September with good fortune. Of 25 sexed pullets, only one looks to be a roo. Of the 5 assorted...
HolaChicka, that is a novel idea. thanks for posting your plans.
One other plan that caught my attention last spring was the idea of a central coop and garden shed building with a large fenced area on each side. One side will be a garden area and the other a run. then at the end of the...
I have two lab mixes who get along well with my four hens. One is big and is mixed with great dane and one is smaller mixed with ???. The bigger one is only about 3 y.o. and is real interested in chasing squirrels and wild birds and walks along in the yard with the hens looking around for...
Interesting posts about chickens eatging Poison ivy! I have poison ivy growing now near my coop and the chickens seem to ignore it. But I am worried that my DW will brush against it or the pullets will give it to her and then I will be in deep trouble. :p
Is there a herbacide that can be...
all four of mine are laying
RIR
10 sep 08
22 Feb 09
Atlanta
GLW
10 sep 08
26 Feb 09
BA
10 sep 08
and BR
10 sep 08
Both BA and BR are laying, not sure which egg belongs to which. One started on 1 March and other about 5 March 09
all started after a 10 warm spell in Atlanta and when...
The lizard paper should work. in my small homemade storagecontainer brooder, I use paper towels for the first week and then a paper towel base with pine flakes on top of that. I felt the advantage with the paper towels is that it is easy to simply fold up the paper towels with the pine flakes...
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Getting back to you on dosing the chickens with Duramycin-10, The package label says for CRD the dosage is 400-800mg per gallon water. So one will assume that is what you are treating for. Other uses may be at different dosages.
I forgot to ask how much drinking water solution you...
Hello,
I can help with that since I have a pharmacy background.
First, I need to know what you have--that is, do you have a liquid or some kind of powder in a packet. If you have a liquid, the measure will read XX mg per 5ml (teaspoonful) or somthing similar. If it is a powder packet it...