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Anyone find a feed mill in North Central Indiana? Elwood, Noblesville, Fishers, Anderson, Muncie? Even Kokomo? I think I'm in the middle of a food desert here. We get Dumor from TSC, but I'd like to explore other options for my 25 chickens.

Glad you survived the storm! I've found chickens do like to climb to the highest area, and everything underneath will get covered in poop. Since it looks like you have tight floor space, you could add a steep sloping roof to your nest box area (to allow some poop to roll off to the floor) or a...

Hi Everyone, I've been on/off this site for over a year. Finally introducing myself. :) (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? First chicks from Tractor Supply around March 2016: 11 buff orpingtons. Then we were gifted 5 two-year old black sex links. Then ordered about...

WARNING -- GRAPHIC PICTURES BELOW --- We culled her this morning and although I cried, I'm glad we did. i don't think she could have healed from this short of surgery. Note that she isn't standing like a penguin... stance looks normal except for her distended abdomen under her vent. Her comb is...

Food: layer feed pellets (Dumor brand, I think) + some wheat and sunflower seeds (no more than 2 cups/daily for the entire flock + kitchen scraps including egg shells and lately lots of tomatoes Wormed them: nope, never. Should I do this on a regular basis or only if something is wrong? Mites: I...

Our old run: Did someone mention fishers? are those like minks? Here are a few things to consider (from my 17 months' experience keeping chickens): cost, time, and your willingness to lose an animal. You can go all-out at the beginning and sink wooden posts, dig hardware cloth a foot into the...

Yikes, that necropsy stuff is really detailed. Anyone in central or N Indiana want to come visit and help? lol. and *sigh* So, I guess we shouldn't try to eat her, huh? I'll take some pictures as we go. KikisGirls, the Ceva necropsy manual listed lots of diseases at the end that have a...

We've harvested 6 roosters over this last year, so my plan was cull her, probably just skin her, then cut her open out on the deck (in case it's really messy and smelly) and see what her insides look like... so not quite treating her like a soup hen, but not quite a necropsy either. If all her...

Hi friends, I have a 1 year old sex-link brown (ISA brown, I think is the other name) hen. 8 days ago, she started acting slow: slow to leave the coop, slow to run for food, slow to peck at the ground for treats... acting like her head was in a fog. She's been missing all the peppiness of normal...

I'm new to chickens in central Indiana. We have 11 Buff Orps 10 weeks old, and it's time to let them outside. We have coyotes, coons, possums, hawks, and owls in the area. Tips for an affordable but safe run? We mapped out a 20x24' space at the edge of the woods, and we're looking at using metal...