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I finally have enough mealworms in my mealworm bin to share some with the chickens. I don't really like picking them up with my fingers, so I used chopsticks and put them in a plastic bowl to take outside to the chicks. Then I fed them one by one using the chopsticks. It was so much fun when...

I currently have an assortment of hatchery stock, which will not be used for breeding. I do free range and would like to keep a couple of roos for flock protection. I have 3 LF roos and 3 bantam roos along with 19 LF pullets and 2 bantam pullets all sharing one coop. I figured I would keep 2...

I installed Add-a-Motor Model D20 automatic pop door openers on my chicken and guinea coops this spring. They were GREAT! In addition to the nipple waterer and automatic feeders, they essentially "automated" chicken keeping and meant we could go out of town and only have a chicken sitter every...

The chickens have a stationary run. I've only had it for a few months and didn't consider what would be required for cleaning when it was constructed. Other than shoveling out the pooh and repairing the dust holes, do you do any other maintenance to the run for cleanliness sake? I don't have...

One of my hens was looking thin and then I saw a roundworm in droppings this week-ugh! Based on various posts on this site, I decided to worm my hens with Valbazen (albendazole). Afterwards, I had some serious second thoughts, which led me to do some additional investigation, which ultimately...

I know that commercial producers candle eggs and remove those with blood or meat spots before sale. Candling is not required by NC for small producers, but do you bother to do this before selling your eggs? If not, do you explain that some eggs may have blood spots and it is normal?

I put the finishing touches on the new spacious coop today, just in time to move the 4 birds to their bigger digs before we go away this weekend. They had been living in a tiny tractor-style coop/run with some free range time in my fenced garden. The girls are 29 weeks old, but we've only...