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In 2009 I acquired a rescue Chihuahua/Jack Russell Terrier mix from a failed adoption (he killed the first owner's chickens). I didn't have chickens at the time so that wasn't an issue. Our local city council later allowed backyard chicken-keeping and in 2014 I became a chicken keeper once...

Thank you for making such a deeply caring effort to save the life of your hen.

I am following this thread with bated breath. Good luck - be strong. It's great advice you're getting. Rather reminds me of the time I had a horse with a large abscess on her chest. And it was Saturday night, -10F, and the vet couldn't come out.

Well, hello from yet another Penny. That is a beautiful little coop, Pennymac02, and so very new. Mine looked shiny & clean like that back at about this time of year in 2014. Definitely looks used now! The lovely green grass took about 8 weeks to disappear too. We got one of our dogs after...

Birdy Buddy, thank you - you've given me an idea about having the chickens do the mixing for the compost heap for me. A few months ago when Hancock Fabrics closed down its store near here, I bought a store fixture that I thought would be an ideal portable & movable chicken run. It's on casters...

Believe me, I've been actively campaigning for the change and am quite willing to go talk to the school officials and take along samples of the stages of composting. with samples from each of the three bins. You know they're imagining rats, rotting vegetables, stench, flies, and unsightly...

We are on a roster with the coffee shop at a hospital. There's a Monday group, a Wednesday group & a Friday group. I'm in the Friday group and go every 4 weeks with my empty buckets (frosting buckets are free from the bakery department at the supermarket) and pick up the full buckets. The...

Noooooo - the mice are in my home compost, and dogs are not allowed inside the community garden at the school. We have the three-bin, chain-link system at school, although the school district does not allow us to compost (yet) (they've been discussing it for the past THREE YEARS!!!). We keep...

Hi Felix, I have already one open-front, single-bin compost heap that is made of concrete blocks kept in place by stakes through the block openings.. It is SO easy to add to, and turn, which is why I want to get rid of my fencing wire circles (currently 5 of them) and get a more user-friendly...

TamiT: I used the same link as was posted near the beginning of this thread and it worked OK, but I'll repeat it here anyway. http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0 Cheers, Penny

Hi Danilou - I guess by now you've discovered that culling is removing the bird from the flock - permanently (in other words, killing it). Pretty much standard practice with the bigger flock owners, but difficult to contemplate for us backyard chicken people when our birds have names and are...

Yes, photos please! I like to see other people's composting efforts. I'm about to advertise for someone to come build me a three-bin system in my backyard. I currently use several (5!) approx 4' diameter wire fencing circles lined with cardboard, and they are just too difficult for me to be...

Urine is sterile when first voided. Penny

Now, about that dog poop. IMHO what is being discussed is a septic tank or digester, and not a compost heap. There are regulations about where septic tanks can be placed (groundwater pollution, etc.). As a septic tank however, instead of a compost bin, you wouldn't need to empty the bin for a...

I've left my first two heaps/cages to do what they can until spring. They've been pretty much frozen since mid-December, though I know "stuff" goes on deep down inside. My granddaughter has had two pygmy goats for about 6 months now, and they've brought me probably 80 gallons (300+ litres) of...

Ah, herein lies the problem. We are technically not allowed to compost at the school-based garden yet. After 2+ years the school district is STILL working out its guidelines, sigh. (Don't you just love a bureaucracy!) We snuck in under the radar over the summer (yes, we're a bunch of...

(drooling) Oh do I ever want a compost setup like that one. I think I'm going to ask for someone to build it for me for Christmas. Currently I use 10' lengths of 4' tall rabbit-proof (?) fencing wire formed into circles. (It's the stuff with the closer mesh at the bottom.) I line it with...

An additional comment on feed and wasted feed. My hens just did not like some brands of crumbles or pellets or layer mash and would throw the feed all over the place looking for the better stuff that they were sure I had hidden at the bottom of the feed dish! I bought a different feed each...