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Meadow's Acre Farm
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We are three....me (April), my husband (Benjamin) who is my best friend, and our miracle little...
Thanks Deb. Mites, lice or worms....ugh. I hope not! I have been out of DE for the last couple months so it is possible. I haven't seen any though. I will look real close and get some DE right away. My local place that carried it went out of business so I am going to have to buy it online...
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My girls have slowed way down on there laying. I have 16 laying hens who are 1 year old and I am only getting about 5 or 6 eggs a day. We went through a period this summer where we had too many Roosters. All of the day old chicks we got this spring (7) turned out to be boys! We...
Thank you to all who have replied. I really appreciate all of your input. We have decided that all seven roosters will go in the stew pot, as well as our 8 obnoxious guinea birds, some of which are boys and getting mean too. At Thanksgiving and Christmas, one each Turkey Tom will go and then...
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I have had two roos, a blue wyandotte and a jersey giant and the blue started going after my 4 year old everytime she went outside but the giant never bothered her so the blue went in the pot and it's been a couple months but now the giant is starting to go after her. We got 7 chicks...
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I think snakes are coming at night and stealing my broody's eggs. We mark the eggs with the date and they have been disappearing one or two at at time for the last couple weeks. The only thing it could be is a snake. I have read a bunch of posts on here but the posts seem to get really...
Thank you so much to all of you for your responses. You have given me hope. I will try the meal worms.....what are meal worms anyway? And where do I get them? I give them my husband's leftover fishing worms.....is that the same thing?
P.s. I love you chicken people!!!!!
My peeps are not full grown....just 6 to 10 weeks old. How cold is too cold for chickens? Our new hen house is not insulated and it is much colder here than in California!!! What do I need to do to take care of my girls this winter? Please help. Our hen house is 8 by 8. I will have 15...
So, my little peeps are growing up and they are still terrified of me. They are about 7 or 8 weeks old now and 4 of them are about 12 weeks old. It is starting to give me a complex. I feel like a school kid again....I really want them to like me. I give them treats and talk to them. My...
Gosh, I gave mine a half a quart of homemade plain yogurt today. Not a couple tablespoons, a half a quart! It was shared among the 29 of them........think it was too much?
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We have 4 chicks who are about 5 weeks old and then another 25 chicks who are 2 weeks old. When can we put them all together? I let them out together now with supervision and the bigger ones peck at the little ones. But, the little ones are growing to big for the brooder so I am...
We are new to chickens and have decided NOT to name the meaties....too hard on butcher day I think. So I have told my 3 year old not to name the white ones. She has named the 4 birds that are a month old and it is so cute. I don't know how she came up with these names but she hasn't wavered...
Thank you all for your responses. I am grateful for the folks on this site who are so willing to help there fellow flocksters.
I just love my chickens so much!!!!
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I bought a bag of 22% game bird starter by mistake and didn't realize it until I had the bag open and poured it into my feed container. Is it okay to feed this to my chicks? I have standard chicken varieties such as road island reds, buff orps, slow grow broilers, black astrolorps and...