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I have a pecan tree in my backyard that has mass produced this year. I free range my hens in my backyard. Is it safe for me to pick these pecans with my hens free ranging? My concern is the pecans mixing with chicken manure.. Hope someone can answer my question. Thank you!

Is it safe to give chicks Organic Non Medicated Starter Grower feed?

I have a couple of chickens I would like to cull from my flock as they have quit laying eggs. One is a Rhode Island Red and the other is a 2 year old Barred Rock...both are sluggish, but otherwise healthy and eating right....can you use these hens for meat? Stewing? Any processing information...

My husband and I are having a bumper crop of pecans this year!!! This is the first for us in the 17 years we've lived in this house. Our pecan trees have never produced pecans until this year! My question is this......we have pecans really thick in the chicken run, are those pecans edible...

My hardware store gave me Medicated Starter Grower instead of Layer Pellets by mistake. I just discovered the mistake this morning. Are the eggs edible after being fed this Medicated Feed? I'm going to call my store and hopefully they will replace my feed without charge!

Well, we done butchered 4 roosters this weekend. One thing I noticed was there was hardly any fat on them roosters, like the ones at the grocery store where you have to trim and trim the fat off! Another thing, the meat is darker, wondering why this is?? Store bought chickens have a more...

Well, tomowa is butcherin' day for us newbies, my husband and I. We are going to butcher 3 7 month old roosters and 1 1 year old rooster. They are very noisy for our neighbors. We live in a rural area, but in town. No complaints from the neighbors, but my husband is kept awake at night as...

I have a young hen-Easter Egger, for some unkown reason she wants to lay her eggs outside the run and on the floor of the hen house. We have gotten some heavy rains and the run is under water, can't get adequate drainage and I'm wondering are her eggs okay if they are sitting in water? I have...

Can someone post pics of what Guinea eggs look like.....I have one female guinea and have no idea if she is laying an egg a day. I'm getting a very round brown egg with ultra thick shell. Was wondering if this is possibly a guinea egg.

This is just ain't the time to be having chickens.......Been having a lot of rain and even had some snow here in the heart of Gulf Coast Texas! The Coop and Chicken run is awful....wet, muddy and extremely stinky! Wish I can let my hens out so they can get some fresh air and green grass-what's...

Anyone here got any pictures of their nest boxes that have doors on them? For some unknown reason my hens are wanting to stay in the nest boxes from sun up to sun down. They don't want to get out! Most are moulting. Never had this problem before. I've introduced a new flock of young hens to...

I have had my chickens for 2 years now, going on 3. They are moulting right now which I understand will make them quit laying. I noticed that they are eating a lot of feed lately! They've never done this and are getting fat. I am located in the Gulf Region of Texas. Beginning to wonder if...

How can you tell a male or a female guinea????? I have one Lavender Guinea! I don't know if it is a he/she??

Can Buff Orpington's fly out of a 4 ft. fence? I'm trying to find a breed of chickens that are not flighty. Would like to free range when I don't have a garden and not worry about hens flying over the fence to the neighbors yard. Anyone have a specific breed they recommend?

My Partridge Bantam Rooster has fathered 2 Barred Rock/Partridge hens, and believe you me, these hens are beautiful!!! They are huge, they did not inherit the bantam gene, got the feathers on their feet and have that bluish/black feather streaked into the white spotted featherings Barred Rocks...

Anyone butcher Easter Eggers? Are they edible?

Well, I have 2 Banty Partridge Cochin Roosters and they have mated with my Danish Brown Leghorn and now I have a tiny baby banty chick who has hatched out today. It has white feathers on it's feet and looks just like the Danish Brown Leghorn chicks, only tinier. It is soooooo cute!!! I can't...

I have 5 new baby black sex links and 1 guinea. I've never raised guineas and wondered if there's any wisdom from anyone on these birds, I would appreciate any input. I'm just giving them chick starter grower feed and water. It is awfully hot here in Texas, do I need to put a light on their...

I have a broody hen sitting on 3 eggs. I have no clue if these eggs are fertile eggs, but I'm just gonna let her sit on them and see what happens. My question is this, do broody hens get out of the nest box to eat and drink? If so, I have her penned up during the day in the nest box she is...

Well, goodness me, this morning I went out to feed my flock some scratch grains as I do this everyday, when lo and behold in their water bucket was a baby possum swimming!!! The hens had picked all the hair off the possum. My dear husband pushed the thing down into the water and drowned it...