Someone mentioned halved grapes for chicks. Mine are 3 weeks old. Do I have to also give them grit if I give them grapes? I have 5 year old chickens outside but would like these to be raised a little more people-friendly. We realize we made some big mistakes with the first batch and are...
I am looking for a hardy grass for my free ranging chickens. I am not worried about their eating it because I give them plenty of scratch but they love to scratch grass off to get to the ground. I am at my wits end...I am willing to re-sod *again* but want to make sure this time that I am not...
I hate to interrupt! I have been on and off this site for a couple of years and have forgotten how to post a new message now that I am in dire need of help! Could someone please explain to me what I need to do to post rather than reply? I would really appreciate it!
About a third of our 11 chickens will come, sit on our laps and lay down on our laps to be be petted. No other motivation. My Sadie will come to her name when I call her and will squat down when I am about 6 feet away, anticipating a pet. We found that whether a chicken will be a true pet...
Hi all! I contacted you in April ago because my 11 chickens had been having such a low production of eggs. They were, many of them, also having diarhea. On the advice of many, I dosed them properly with Valbazen Wormer and they upped the production to 8 a day after a few weeks and seemed...
I also have used the vanilla trees and they work really well! I add 3 strips of fly tape to the back of the coop (so I don't have to look at them!). The combo really works wonders on the flies. I have seen a huge reduction of flies since I read both of these tips on this forum! Such a lot of...
Isn't it amazing the difference chickens bring to one's sense of happiness? I call them my Ladies. They don't know they are living in Disneyland, but when I started prepping my fenced in vegetable garden, I opened the gates and let them come in to eat all the bugs that had been tilled up...
I discovered my husband had replaced the food for the Ladies without consulting me as to what I thought their requirements are. I have ordered new food. I am surprised that some of the Ladies do indeed seem to be molting to a small extent. I thought that was supposed to happen in the fall but...
Bless you! I think you have hit on my problem. With all the worries about my Mother's declining health, I had forgotten that light plays such a large role in their laying habits. I will remedy that tonight! I am also going to change the laying food. My husband made a substitution that I was...
Since we had the deep freeze in December (?), my egg production fell dramatically. We have 11 chickens who are about 20 months old. Until the fall molt, we got 10 to 11 eggs per day. After the freeze, we got 1 per day. That has risen slowly to 5 or 6 a day. We have tried almost everything...
Hiya Teila:
This reply is very helpful! Poor Dusty! I hope we don't experience that with our girls. We have 3 barred rocks, 3 Rhode Islands, 4 New Hampshires and 1 Buforpington. We are looking forward to the molting season just because it is so different. And I had read not to touch them...
We live near OKC and our girls were a year old at the beginning of July, so this will be our first molting season. About when should we start a higher protein diet for them? Any advice for a newbie?
I only used to worm analogy to explain that it really looks like bulky dark yarn. They aren't really worms, just strings of poop. But I will certainly look into the worm issue, Is this a crisis I am looking at or something I can go to the farm store and get without getting overly upset? That...
I have 11 nearly year old hens. One is having diarrhea with a lot of liquid and what look like (but of course aren't) wormy, dark, mushy stools. She has been doing this for 3 days. Also, I have just noticed that all the hens but one have gotten pale pink combs and wattles, as opposed to the...