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Bugs in organic feed? Acceptable or no? Don't get me wrong, my chickens free range and eat plenty of bugs. I'm But I don't think bugs should be in the feed eating up the good stuff potentially leaving the feed unbalanced in nutrients. I had my husband return a bag of organic feed...

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I purchased 5 turkey poults (from a couple of weeks old to a couple of days old) and 3 chicks (days old) from a local farm. They are in week 3 of quarantine from the rest of my flock. I ran out of my normal organic feed when my co-op cancelled a delivery. I accidentally purchased a game...

I'm going to pasture my young male chickens and perhaps our turkeys in our orchard. The orchard is surrounded by 10 foot posts with hex chicken wire and strand wire run through it to keep the deer out. This "fence" that previous owners built does not go entirely to the ground. It's approx 2...

Thanks, that's good advice. I hadn't thought so much about over head protection against hawk attacks. Hopefully the leaves come out in the next couple of weeks. Then I can allow them to hang out in an area with a little more security.

I have a first time broody hen. She's in a nest box on the floor separated with a small amount of floor space by fencing from the rest of the coop. I had to confine her because she switched nests the first week. I gave her 7 new eggs 3.27 so they should hatch later this week. I haven't...

I have a Buckeye rooster over a pure barred rock that hatched a male black sex link with the white spot on its head. Yay, looks like it works. :) Would there be any sex link traits with a Buckeye over a black Cochin female?

Anyone interested in 4 white crested black polish chicks, 1 white polish chick, or 5 buff brama chicks? Selling the five polish for $35 and the 5 bramas for $30. Hatched 3.03.14. Located in Sparta TN. Need to clean out my brooders. Thanks!

Insulating my hoop house today too. Got some hay bales coming to stack around the outside. I've added some more bedding to the DL and will close the roof vents more. Thinking about taking the roosts out and creating a sleeping box so they have a smaller area to keep warm. That way they'll...

Oh no, delisha. I hope you are able to save some if not most of your birds. Don't beat yourself up too much, accidents happen. It's not like you knowingly gave them bad feed. I know you must be sick yourself. :( Hugs!

Ha! They were a lot drier than I thought they would be which goes to show how nice their feather coats are. It was only the one dumb bunny cockerel that still had soaked sickle feathers. Everyone else felt warm. I did find a draft that I was able to close up!

I had a home birth here too! Simply amazing.

I have some very wet chickens and it's going to get down to 26 degrees tonight. They free range and despite me putting their food under roof, some of them still spent a lot of time in the rain doing their normal thing. The 2 cockerels look like they took a bath. Most of then hens were a...

My lowest cockerel will sometimes jump and peck the feed bucket when I carry it. Last night I shoo'd him away as I walked. Then the #1 cockerel came at me for bothering one of his flock. When I kicked #1 away, he came back at me a second time. I understand #1 protecting his flock but I...

Pretty SFH. I keep thinking about a silkie as well. I have large fowl Buckeyes with two cockerels in the flock. I'm hoping we'll have some broodies next year but a silkie might be extra insurance. Plus entertaining if they don't get picked on. Buckeyes are good natured, not known as pickers put...

Very interesting and good pointers. To clarify when you say you feed fresh egg shells back every day, you mean always separately in free choice bowls? Love that idea. I might have to stop putting our egg shells in the compost sooner than I thought. I was going to wait until POL to offer...

Congrats! Love to see pics. :)

Ah, yes zip ties! Thanks!

Is this what you are planning to feed as layer? http://www.scratchandpeck.com/products/sflayer If not, check the feeding instructions on the product you are going to feed. If so, the feeding instructions say to offer oyster shell as well. I don't believe that layer feed contains oyster...

It is kind of big. I'll try to get one under a magnifying glass. When I feel something crawling on me, the impulse is to smoosh it. But I'll try! I feel like it might be the scratch grains that they are in. I don't have a lot of scratch left so maybe I should dump it out to go through...