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I ordered from Meyer for the first time recently with delivery expected next week. How do they determine and )how will know) which of the several post offices in my area will receive the chicks? I'd like to give them a heads up and know where I need to be.

Good luck. EEs are typically the victims of bully chickens.

Ditto on the protein push. The industry took quality protein out of chicken feed during the "mad cow" crisis. Give you chickens some cat or dog food -- not too much because it is high in salt -- or meat scraps or eggs. Also, consider mixing high-protein game bird feed in with their ration. Their...

Less protein, more corn. Corn is junk food for chickens, but a little in the winter helps them generated more heat.

You will not likely have any problems. Chicken's metabolism is much different than our and they are not unlike wild birds you see through the winter. So long as you picked birds that emerged from cooler areas, they will be expecting cold. I'm in the Northeast, and my birds are all breeds from...

I would do a permethrin dip, which would immediately kill the larvea and all internal and external parasites and keep other bugs away for at least a month. Then I would blue kote or vetricin that.

Was there a change in feed? I switched feeds and all my girls, including my EE stopped for a week, then restarted slowly until I switched back. Also, a bird could be molting, or close to molting, when production slows down or stops. Good luck.

Float test is a myth. My eggs are rarely last more than two or three weeks in my house and I was concerned when so many seemed to float. After hearing lots of confusing misinformation -- I found this from the USDA to should put everyone at ease. What does it mean when an egg floats in...

I have read the debate over hatcheries being indoors/outdoors that began in this discussion about LFF. For context, I visited LFF whenI picked up my birds in early 2015 before it closed. As everyone said, it was indoors. But birds were kept in large farm building with clean bedding and ample...

The reason grandma and grandpa did it that way is because they didn't have the option. We have balanced feed best suited to chicken development available to us. You are not wasting your money, It is unlikely your chickens will ever aet Methione from free ranging or scratch and it is essential to...

My barred is the head hen and she is a benevolent dictator, protecting our timid Easter Egger when other picked her tail clean. She's willful to me, always putting up some resistance when I try to corral them back into the run or bawking at me with disapproval or objection. She is also a...

Nutrena NatureWise at a few TSCs in my area, but "all vegetarian." But you say if I cool my heels and just be patient, that could change at any time. I'll keep watching. http://www.nutrenaworld.com/products/poultry/naturewise-poultry/naturewise-layer16/index.jsp

This is helpful I will look for Nutrena Country feeds. But your scans make my point. The examples you cite all have always contained animal products. (The Nutrena examples have animal by products as the 3rd, 4th, and 3rd ingredient, in those examples, respectively. I think you misspoke by saying...

You raise some interesting points. Perhaps you should point these out to the handful of people on feed threads declaring, hand over heart, that certain feeds absolutely, positively contain animal protien (even when they can be found in early posts lamenting that the same feed had the protein...

Ignorant people spreading misinformation should be a concern. Some of the folks on these threads, I have learned, intentionally mislead people. So I won't roll with that, thank you. I can not begin to imagine why people would try to mislead others knowingly.. but some are at BYC. Maybe they are...

Chris09... you have such a long history of misleading people on feed. I see your posts and distinctive logo on many feed-related threads. Here I see you making false claims about feed containing animal protein, even AFTER acknowledging in other threads BEFORE this post that this is not the case...

Although EE are mixed of multiple, different breeds,, they usually don't have waddles -- at least no significant ones. The comb is supposed to be slight, a pea or rose comb. Because EEs are mixes, you are probably experiences some differences in them, assuming they are from different clutches...

That's interesting. Must be regional. I understand Purina produces Dumor as a private label. BSE and the demands of people wanting raise "organic" or "vegetarian" chickens force most meat by-prorduct out of all feed. I'll recheck Dumor. In the meantime I found a local mill, FM Brown that...

I have read Dumor tags in three states and never, ever, saw animal protein listed as an ingredient. All Dumor brands are widely touted for being all-grain, all-vegetarian, meat-free on other treads, as we speak. . Please post a picture of your Dumor tags that show animal protein as an...