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Methione- An amino acid (containing sulfur) required for feather growth. It's found in black oil sunflower seeds which also contain 30% protein.
Eggs are good when:
Fill a bowl with water deeper than an egg is long.
Place eggs...
Whole Chicken coop and run
Inside of chicken coop. Unique egg collected 10/30/2007.
We fell into having chickens. While we had talked about it before, I had told my DH that he had to build the coop BEFORE the chicks...
Chicken Saddle 1: 4 inches wide at the top Chicken Saddle 2: This one came from elle and
8 inches wide at the middle I have also seen it in
7 1/2 inches long...
I decided that I needed a coop for the chicks. Last year I made a sheltered area in their run but, it was a hassle. So I started thinking what type. It will only be used for a few months of the year so I didn't want to put alot of money into it and yet I wanted something that would work without...
We used a shed kit from Home depot to build our coop. We built it into a nice sheltered corner of our cow barn, siloroom, and silo. I don't have pics of building it but, here it is finished and some changes we made. The coop is 8x8x8. The run was a 9x 12 kennel that we added a door panel on each...
Thank you for your replies.
Yes, the new birds are from my flock. I hatched them from my current flock.
As for watching them when I add them in, I do that anytime I add a new bird(s) to my flock no matter how long they have been in the separation pen.
I'm going to be processing some of my older hens and the roo. I have replacements in the chick coop. I do have a small pen in the chicken run that I normally would put the pullets & roo into to introduce them in. But, with processing over half of my flock I'm really going to be upsetting the...
My folks started down the road of loaning money or buying vehicles for my younger brother. He was suppose to pay them back. When he wasn't I told mom to stop it. She argued back that he was young and in college. I told her that he wouldn't learn to manage his money if she kept it up. She finally...