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Hi everyone!! I want to share our method of feeding treats to our semi free ranged chickens. It's the modern chickens' fast food window. Enjoy!!

All six are laying hens. Good job Mount Healthy Hatchery!

You can get the vitamin/probiotic at Tractor Supply for $13.99 60gm, a local farm supply store, or order it online. Amazon has it for 7.99 plus shipping here http://www.amazon.com/Poultry-Provita-60-30-days/dp/B00B1O80GA. So sorry to hear that you have had a fatality, it is so...

My wyandotte chicks were doing this also. I started supplementing their water with Poultry Provita which is vitamins and probiotics. They no longer shake their head randomly and are all doing well at 15 weeks old. Enjoy your chicks...they grow up sooo fast!!

I would plant evergreens such as yews, so that they have cover all year round. Of course they could also use these to gain height to fly out of the run. I was able to capture a picture this morning of the hawk that watches my run. Do you have a lot of chickens?

Animals970, where are you located to not be concerned about aerial predators? Let me tell you by first hand experience... I was cleaning my chicken coop and heard the roosters making their aerial warning sounds. I quickly stepped out of the coop and there was a hawk on the ground right in...

Even the chicks that are only a week old love to dust bath. The organic seed starting mix works well for my chicks. It makes a dusty mess in the area where the brooder is, but they really enjoy it. The dust box will need refilled every week or so because the chicks use it and spill it. Enjoy...

Thanks for letting me know. Lacy definitely looks to have sickle feathers. Yikes!! I paid 4.23 for a day old male chick then. (They were vaccinated for Mareck's) Have you ever got a refund from a hatchery if the chick was male not female?

You can purchase the rubbermaid horizontal storage shed online and have it delivered...

Hi everyone, We have three silver laced wyandottes and three golden laced wyandottes who are fourteen weeks old. We picked them up as day old chicks from our local hatchery back in November. They are out growing their 4' X 4' brooder and are picking at each others feathers, so I do not know...

So what gender did your chick turn out to be? Do you have any updated pictures of it to post? It is a beautiful chick!!

Okay, I found out that the FDA directs this statement to be put on medicated feeds. The reasoning behind it is that the medicine, Amprolium, will cycle through the chicks and into the litter. It will end up in the litter through the chicks feces and if remained in the litter will continue...

I just purchased a 50 lb. bag of Purina Start and Grow Sunfresh Medicated Crumbles for six day old chicks we are picking up in a couple of days. There is a statement on the white tag sewn onto the bottom of the bag under the Heading CAUTION, it reads- "Do not change the litter while giving...

Thanks for the update!! Glad to hear that all of your pullets survived the smoke. Best of luck finishing their winter home, these can be quite a project!! Keep up your good spirits!!

My eleven chickens prefer crumbles. They are all pullets, about 30 weeks old. I have three feeders hanging, one inside the coop which has pellets and two under the coop, one has pellets and the other has crumbles. The chickens do not eat the pellets but will go through a 7 lb feeder of...

Wonderful that she started laying. What are toe cords? Equivalent to a leash perhaps?

So, thebitty, did she start laying for you? I am in the same situation. I purchased a couple of pullets that are suppose to be at POL (point of lay), but one only layed once and the other not at all. We've had them for a over two weeks now. They were added to a flock of six, one being a...

Well, Stumpy is definitely a cockerel. He has started crowing early in the morning, 5:45AM. At first it was a pretty rough sound, but he has improved drastically this past week. He was just over 10 weeks old when he started this. He has a very nice sound. Yes, these Amber Links are very...

One thing I wish I knew when starting out is that building an external nesting box using 18inch on center studs is not a shortcut. If you are building the coop from the ground up, Do not get in a hurry starting out by not framing in the place where the nesting boxes will be. I wanted the walls...

Okay, thanks cccccccchickens. I'll assume they are five weeks old. These are our first, and have been great entertainment. I dug up a lot of earthworms and fed them as a treat. It took awhile for the chicks to figure out it was food and eat. Now, they do not seem all that interested in...