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Help- I just bought 40 pounds of DE at the feed store. I asked them (several times) if it was food grade and I could use it for my chickens. I just don't know if it really is or not:idunno Nowhere on the bag does it say "food grade". There is a picture of poultry on it, as well as other...

We had a sick hen that came into the house to recover a while ago. We figured she would die anyway- staggering like our old roo, Butterball, started doing before he died last summer. But, Fido is a tough bird and recovered and is enjoying being a house chicken:lol: Now it is time for her to go...

OK, my only roo left is a bantam, and my girls are all large EEs. None of the girls felt like being broody last year when I had a large roo for them, so, of course this spring, already one hen is nesting and starting to sit on a nest. My question is- can the little man actually get the job done...

I have a huge surplus of hot peppers from my garden this year, and I was wondering if the chickens would like them. I have heard that they don't taste "hot" really, but will it do anything bad to them? We also had steamed clams this weekend and had leftover dipping butter. I hate to just throw...

Proof that they love their yogurt! I just had to try to get pictures of the "got milk" beaks:P I hope this works- it's a link to a video of the girls. http://good-times.webshots.com/video/3054041440100916734cATsGb http://good-times.webshots.com/video/3054041440100916734cATsGb

Unfortunately. We have had our chickens for a year now, just about to the week, and this week we had a fox grab one of the girls. Everyone else set up a squeal and "called" my SO to save them. The fox was so startled he dropped the hen and they ran for the henhouse and the fox hightailed it...

Our big rooster, Butterball, has been going downhill for 4 days now. These chickens are pets and my SO is attached to them. So, we took him to the vet. He is lethargic, uncoordinated, and he twists his neck. His crop also feels impacted. Vet says it could be viral or bacterial, we are...

Anyone make pasta as a way of using up eggs? I'd like to make pasta and dry it for storage using the excess eggs we have now, but I've never done it. I know I need a pasta machine to roll it out. How long does it keep if you dry and store in a canister? Any recipes?

Our big roo, Butterball, somehow managed to rip off one of his spurs yesterday free ranging with the girls. He came in and it was just a stub and bleeding, though not profusely, and seemed to stop all right. Is this a dangerous injury- aside from preventing infection, is it going to do him...

Just had to brag about our new filly born (2 weeks early!) on Sunday morning at 5am. She is out of our Trakehner mare by a young cremello tobiano stallion on his proving year. So, we were going to get buckskin or smoky black with a 50/50 chance of pinto.

Our girls are enjoying the spring worms so much that I was thinking about buying night crawlers and trying to raise them in 5 gallon buckets of dirt for feeding. Anyone know how long it takes ( or even how) night crawlers reproduce? Or is it just another crackpot idea for the girls? I don't...

I thought we feed our girls pretty well, but, in the process of letting eggs accumulate for a brood, we discovered that one of them is eating the eggs- the nest and other eggs has egg yolk all over them. We have free choice layer pellets, free choice calcium chloride, and twice a day we toss...

We were going to let the girls accumulate their eggs in the hope that one of them would become broody and sit on them- it didn't work. We got up to 17 eggs in the dog crate we put in the henhouse and they weren't really committed to sitting yet, but several of them were in there at various...

Well, we are finally raining instead of snowing! And, impatient as we are, we're going to let the girls set some of their own eggs and hope they don't freeze. We are so anxious for spring here, this actually sounds like a good idea to us... And, if no chicks appear in the coop in a month it...

OK, winter has officially lasted as long as I can tolerate. We had 10 inches more of snow last night. I don't know where we are going to put it all. There is 2 inches of ice under the snow from the last "mixed precipitation" event, so we can't get a vehicle (tractor or truck) down the hill to...

Well, I was all set to buy a couple of chicks this spring to replace the ones that got hunted last year when my SO suggested just letting the hens "do their own thing" instead of having chicks being raised in the house then trying to move them out and integrating them into the herd. Anyone done...

I really did think I had made up my mind with what breed I wanted my new babies to be (I am allowed two this year to just replace the ones that died last year). I have Easter Eggers now, and SO thinks brown eggs would be nice I was going to go with production and order two Red Sex linked. Then...

OK, when you have a thread that you really want to keep track of and you click the subscribe to this thread button at the bottom of the page, what happens to it? I don't see any corresponding button for any kind of list of topics subscribed to? Are the saved topics stashed somewhere that I'm...

I think we are feeding the entire squirrel population of Southern Vermont! They can't get into the house, but I see them congregating outside the house INSIDE the pen waiting for me to come out and open up the restraunt door! And the girls (and boys) let them in! ARGGH How the heck do you keep...

What can we put over the top of our coop run to coon-proof it? We saw tracks inside the run and some chewing on the henhouse today that look like coon "hands". Our house is pretty predator proof- I have confidence in it. But I don't want them to get into the run that the girls and boys are out...