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I even put poo coated with the sweet pdz in my big garden. Pdz, diamateous earth, sweet barn lime can all be used in the garden compost.

Your coop looks so pretty! I love the setting with the trees.

I am in the Central part of the state. Grinnell, Iowa, about a mile off of Interstate 80. Thank you for the link to other Iowans.

I finally took some pictures of my addition to my existing chicken house. It has made things so much easier for me. First pic has the full view and you can see part of the run that extends out. The girls have access 24/7 to it. Second one is the older hen's side. You can see the slide door...

Use Sand. Really deep. The chickens will scratch and throw it out of the run. I go in during the summer and use a potato fork if it gets compacted down to turn it over and you wouldn't believe the fish worms in it. Sand lets the droppings, rain filter out. I have had my sand in for about 6...

I have had chickens for around 30 years. I have 50 older hens and 50 new pullets that will start laying hopefully in a few weeks. My 50 older girls are a mixed breed but my new girls are Australorps To make things easy on me my husband and sons built me a big chicken house, it is huge from what...

Sounds like gape worm. Have you wormed your chickens at all?

If you have the regular feed out and throw in the fruits and veggies for them to eat when they want to it will be ok. I have kept chickens for 25 years and it has never hurt them to toss my wheelbarrow full of grass, weeds, fruits and veggies into them. If it takes a couple of days for them to...

Clean it up as best you can with mild cleanser and get some blue kote to spray on it. You will probably have to keep it separated from the other chicks till it heals so they won't peck at the wound. Keep it clean. Mix some vitamins and electrolytes in the chicks water as this is a traumatic...

If you have babied her this far, do some physical therapy on her leg. Massaging, pulling it. You could put her in a warm bath and try to loosen it up that way.

I give raw, cooked, frozen veggies. I clean out my veggie freezer every two years and the chickens get everything.

You can go to the USDA website and you will find that you can produce under a certain amount of birds per year. Mine is 2000. You can butcher, process, package and sell them as long as customers come to your place and pick them up. You must keep the name of the people and the number of birds...

I guess I am bad. It has been two years since I put the fine wood shavings down, I sprinkled DE around and turned the deep bed once a week with a corn rake getting down to the cement, just add a bag here and there before the winter months. My deep litter now is very fine and looks like dirt...

Good old hydrogen peroxide for cleaning. You can also mix half water/half peroxide and spray on problem areas. This will not hurt your chickens and will stop the mold spores.

Post 5 and 6 above will tell you where to order from

http://www.groworganic.com/shiitake-plug-spawn-100pk.html

That usually means it is packaged for birds and animals not for humans. Human consumption is a lot stricter on packaging and has to meet certain criteria. Human consumption is higher priced. I find it strange if sunflowers were sprayed with insecticide. Around here they grow wild.

You can buy a few bags of meat bird feed which is 22% protein. My feed formula has approximately 22% protein so they get this year around and I do not have problems with them. Winter time I give them an occasional scoop of alfalfa pellets/sunflower seed and whole oats to scratch around which...

Second this for Farm Bureau. That insurance company does not want your business. Don't get rid of your girls yet. Have someone cut back your tree limbs from your roof and get another company.

It also helps to put dish soap in the scald water. That breaks down the oils on the feathers to keep them from sticking as bad.