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Ooh that’s a great idea. I’ll check and see if the mill sells it, I bet they do. Thank you!

This is perfect! Ill make sure to grab some fish for them and see if it helps. Thank you!

What a great idea! This is great advice, thank you! I can definitely get them some sardines! I know they like yogurt too.

Oh my gosh, what a great idea! We had been giving extra eggs away, which was nice too, but this!! I’ll definitely be trying this. Thank you!

One of my hens is beginning to molt, but has also been having her wing feathers plucked out by the bully hen. We are getting a kennel to put the bully in rehab, but in the mean time, what do you feed your girls to boost their protein? We have freeze dried mealworms and black soldier fly...

Your criteria was very similar to ours! We ended up getting: Barred Plymouth Rocks Sapphire gem Sapphire olive egger I have also looked at the breeds others have mentioned adding here to their additional flock mates!

Just finding this thread now but I’ve heard great things about the Buff Rock! Some people seem to like them better than their buff orpingtons. What is your experience now?

Is your lavender as sweet as your buff? Or similar? I’m not sure why I’ve had an aversion to buff orpingtons. They have come so highly recommended, as the golden retrievers of the chicken world. I don’t have much experience with them, but a lot of people seem to really love them! That...

That sounds like exactly what I’m looking for - calm, steady, sweet tempered. that’s exactly what I’m looking for!

We’re in zone 7, in Tennessee. Our winters mostly average 15-20 degrees F, but we did have a week or a little over that where it was -4 F last year, during the big storm. We have a covered run on a hillside and are able to do deep litter in their coop. We get some humid and rainy times. I’ve...

You can find calcium citrate online, I don’t have a brand recommendation. Tractor supply sells oyster shells that you can mix in with their feed and offer separately.

I’m interested in adding a black pullet chick to my flock with our next round of raising chicks. We live in a neighborhood, on about a half acre, and thankfully, our neighbors are for the most part cool with it, but I want to make sure we’re looking at quieter breeds. We are of course going to...

Thank you so much for the tip on integrating them! We want a nice peaceful integration. I tend to agree, I’ll try to stick with heritage breeds or at least not high production breeds, I don’t want to support stressing out their little systems. My neighbor said that her cinnamon queens are...

We have a small flock of 4 backyard laying hens. We are looking to add another 2 hens (live in city limits, so we can have 6 hens total, and hopefully on the quieter end, pullet chicks). We have 2 Barred Plymouth Rocks, a Sapphire Gem and a Sapphire Olive Egger. All are pretty great foragers...

Wow, this is so exciting! If you are making recommendations, what would you recommend as a breed for our family? Moderately active couple in their 30s 1/2 acre including garden Suburban neighborhood 6 foot hogwire fenced yard Small backyard hens flock Indoor cat, Russian blue, 4 years...

Thank you so much for the suggestions! We will definitely keep them in mind. We have a dog kennel set up if need be. So far we nursed our hen with the broken tip with antiseptic spray for chickens, vetericyn and ointment. We added two more feeders in different areas that night that stay in...

Please help! I have one a-hole chicken who grabs the beaks of my other hens and twists and tears their beaks. She follows them around and yanks food out of their mouths. When the other three hens of the flock are together, there are no issues. This one was brought home two days later, all...

Hi! We brought home our first flock of babies in September of 2021. We started with 3 baby pullet chicks, thankfully someone with experience helped us sex them: 1 Sapphire Gem 1 Barred Rock 1 Sapphire Olive Egger I felt our little flock was incomplete and we went back two days later and...

Ok, do you have a way to pick for temperament?

Are they sweet? Quiet? Friendly? Good foragers? Do they eat a lot more than other birds? Are they cuddly at all? What’s good or bad about ‘em? We have an existing flock of four girls and have considered these or Bielefelders, Dorkings, or Sussex. We have 2 Barred Rocks, a Sapphire gem...