Polly laid her first egg Thursday sometime between 6 and 7 pm, we found it when we went to close the coop door. She acted fine the last 2 days but has not laid again until we found one under the roost this morning. We let them out to free range after church and she was slow moving and...
COCCIDIOSTAT is an anti-protozoic. I am a nurse and I also thought it was an antibiotic. It is a personal choice I have made for my chickens not to have this even though it seems ok for the eggs to be eaten after your girls have eaten it. You will have to decide for yourself as for my family...
I noticed a few days ago that one of my RIR had a good amount of down sticking out of the feathers on her breast. Today she still has it along with one of my BO's but not as much, also an EE has a small amount. Is it from fighting each other. They are 20 weeks old and these three seem to be in...
Thanks Kelly.
I searched up the website and there is a feed store in Sanford that sells it so I will be heading that way in the next few days as my girls are going to be 20 weeks old Weds. and we are going to need feed in the next several days.
I was so excited, today I saw a chiilin with my peeps bumpersticker on a gray van on OBT and sheeler road in Apopka Florida. So cool to see there are other chick lovers near me.
Do you think this is because they are all starting to get red combs and wattles? What should I do if this continues? I am afraid if it is Nelly then she may really hurt someones.
I have 6 chicks 16 weeks old they have all been healthy until now. I noticed last week my nicest chick Judy,a buff orphington, had something red behind her ears. Upon further inspection i noticed the feathers were gone . She has been acting normal and sweet like always. She is the bottom of...
I looked today, it was not written on the bag but it was written on a tag that was attached to the bottom of the bag. I will probably try tractor supply since this seems to be the one the feed stores carry. Thank you for your help.
I buy it at the feed store in the original packaging. What brands of feed are not medicated? Thank God for BYC because she was the one I turned to for advice. Oviously she does not understand why I have my chickens.
My girls will be 16 weeks old on Weds. I have been feeding them Nutrena grower from the beginning. I am beginning to question my feed stores advice. I called the store 2 days after i brought my chicks home they said the grower is fine, that I did noit need chick starter. Now they are telling me...
I live in Orlando and we put our chicks outside at 5 weeks of age, it was the end of July. They have a covered run and did not free range until the last couple of weeks because we have a pair of red-shouldered hawks that live close to the lake.
My human girls and I watched a great British documentary called "The Private Life of Chickens". It focused on a woman that rescued battery chickens and then re-homed them. It was disgusting to see how they are kept inside ( never see daylight ) in tiny cages filled with hundred of others. After...
My chicks were 7 weeks old yesterday and boy have they changed. They still peep but they also sound like chickens with their clucking. They have been in their coop and enclosed run for over 2 weeks, last night I waited until just before dark and they were all in the coop and sitting on the...