Just think about what you post. You attacked the reason behind doing it without even taking time to learn what was actually being done. Even an abandoned thread it not yours to commandeer. I see no clear indications you understand what I was doing.
I am not. I provided in four forms. First was as part of dust bathing mixture.
1) The chickens bathed in it and consumed some of the larger particulates. Consumption rate was not known.
2) I also mixed with into a crumbled feed mixture dry. Intake of biochar was less than proportional to...
There appears to be no soy in the bird mix. I’ll get pictures and ingredient lists. There is a lot of sunflower seed in one of the mixes. Another is dominated by a mixture of millets. Yet another has a lot of nuts including peanuts.
He is a mid June hatch. I think I have seen it before with cocks where they look Hennie during the summer. The stag in this case has poor feathering from being kept to tight at night on an extended road trip to Montana. I wander if one of the grains in the wild bird mix has a lot of estrogen...
Something is up with this stag that I think is diet related. He should be black-breasted red duckwing and overall pretty close to wild-type. He’s been given free-choice access to blocks of wild bird seed. He also gets same amount of a complete 20% crude protein feed in the form of pellets and...
Egg cannibalism issue. Previous brood is doing it. House lacking behavioral enrichment and is a bit tight too. Alternative nest sites will be provided that are more sequestered. Previous brood will be given more activities away from selected nest site.
Hen also molting for second time
I fell asleep in the middle of making the bed. One of the chicks from the previous brew of the pair setting a clutch now decided to settle on me and take a nap on my head.
Hen and her attended rooster went down stairs to deposit egg in my daughter’s bed room. Not were I want nest since game camera will not be able to communicate with cell phone when I’m out of town.
I maintain a flock of chickens for use as public displays. Each year a couple new birds are set aside for this use. Part of the taming process is me sitting in a lawn chair while reading a book or messing with this phone. The includes stints where birds are going to or on the roost. Scratch...
This has been a long time coming for us where we will have a hen go from finishing out one brood to completing another in the house so kids and I can track pretty much everything that goes on. Hen just weaned two chicks and started making the sound (recorded) that advertises she is coming into...