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@ChickenCanoe Part of my challenge is that half the reason I have chickens is for soy-free meat and eggs. I have yet to find a commercial soy-free grower or chick feed that I can source reasonably locally and/or won't make me go broke. You're right about the protein, though. I do need to think...

I just culled four birds that were no longer laying, and I am wondering to what extent their abdominal fat played into it. A friend gave them to me- they had come from a stationary coop/run and were put into my mobile coop/run. They were feeding them twice a day, it sounded like, and I'm in the...

For those looking at the food thing, I really like The Mood Cure and GAPS- actually I was doing REALLY well with the pureed, cooked-to-death soups from the GAPS book, but it's too daggone hot for hot soups at the moment! I'm currently on a downturn, in part because my food has been terrible-...

I have two golden comets in my mixed flock and they're friendly enough. They've also got an almost perfect record for egg laying. I can pretty much count on two brown eggs, probably two white eggs (leghorns), and sometimes a beige from my slacker Easter Egger or my geriatric buff orpington. Do...

A big part of the reason I have layers and am attempting meat birds is so I can control the quality of my food that comes out of them. That means what I put into them needs to be high quality, too. For me, that means soy-free, organic, and lower corn would be nice. Unfortunately, between my job...

Yes! I just lost a girl to a coon last weekend, so I'm on a rooster hunt. I'm in Bridgton, but for a good rooster I can travel some. Where are you? Would you have a hen or two to send with him so he has a flock that he knows while he's getting to know my girls?

Thank you all for the welcome! I'll be checking out those threads, TwoCrows. I'm still slogging through the fodder one- there's just so much back information to catch up on!

Hi- I've got 7 layers (well, at the moment, 5 good layers and two slackers), eight layers on their way up, 5 turkeys, and 4 meat birds being grown to live in the freezer. I'm interested in as natural an approach as possible with the understanding that keeping them in a human environment is...