Where on earth can I buy wheatgrass seeds for growing fodder in bulk, or at least more than 5lbs for $16.00 at Walmart? None of the million feed stores here sell any seeds for growing fodder.
Birds are free roam, cooped at night in a 10x10 pen. 7 birds total, ample nesting area, roosts, and sufficient shelter. This hen is 2.5 years old, light molt this spring. Lays about every three days. Fed romaine lettuce, layer pellets, recently small portions of meat, and scrambled eggs. Breed...
Everything you Need to Know, Step by Step | TBN Ranch
Research, Plan, and Prepare
Raising chicks can be easy if you just do your homework before you buy. Knowing when to plan for your chick's arrival is also something to take into consideration. Of course it makes good sense to have your coop...
2 year old hen pulls out massive feathers mostly at night. Her chest is bald and her fancy pants are almost gone. No mites, but treated anyway just in case. She's a non setter, so not preparing her nest, and not molting. She's separated from the flock because she'll pull out all their feathers...
I've got a SIlkie on 5 cochin eggs due to hatch on Aug 23rd! I haven't done this before, so I'm a little nervous and excited at the same time. Mom is separated from the flock in her own coop. She's in a brooder box about 3 inches off the ground. My plan is to keep the chicks and her together for...
I have a 5 month old Silkie roo who has been penned up in an area in sight of 4 mature Silkies hens and one Silkie pullet, for 3 months. This is my first time having a roo and although I've had chickens for years... having a roo for the first time has put me on strange territory. It's probably...
by amy elizabeth
TBN Ranch
Chickens: Intervention and Management of Problematic Pecking
Stressful conditions create unhappy chickens and bad behavior. It’s perfectly natural for chickens to peck everything. But each other? Unfortunately, yes, sometimes they do. Often this behavior draws...
Beats me, this states a revision by adding section 9-462.09
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 9, chapter 4, article 6.1, Arizona Revised Statutes is amended by adding section 9-462.09, to read:
9-462.09. Backyard fowl regulation; prohibition...
The Recipe for Survival, Explained in Detail
by amy elizabeth
Once again it’s that time of year when soaring temperatures raise concern to chicken keepers. For those who can free roam their flock there is less worry. But if you have backyard chickens that are confined to a coop, your worries...