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Hello, Can anyone tell me what a GFM is? I'm being offered a subscription. Thanks.

Hello, Our neighbor just put in 3 sows and a boar, and plans to put in 3 more sows. He says he's going to move the little ones to the other side of his property to raise for market. My concern is for run off. My property is below his, along with the other neighbors on the piglet side. His...

Hello, I have 3 goslings that have been abandoned by the parents. There is something wrong with their little legs, looks like something got to them though I don't see any open fractures. They can't keep up with the flock and they are only a few weeks old. I normally would let nature take it's...

I've read a couple posts that use wood ash for their chickens dust bath. I burn oak and walnut in our wood burning stove, and I usually start with fat wood but because of the freezing weather (and I don't use that word lightly,) the stove has been "on" for the last few days. Safe to use? Do I...

My chickens are starting to molt, egg laying is slowing down, can I still worm them?

All my chickens are in full molt and are not laying eggs. Is it still ok to give oyster shell even when they are not laying? By the way when can I expect them to start giving up those eggs?

My Black Jersey Giant just died in my arms. No trauma, no runny nose/eyes, but has a bald belly. She looked perfectly healthy yesterday, running around eating, drinking water, no different than any other day. Is the bald belly an indication of anything? My whole flock was wormed over a month...

I've lost 2 chickens in the last couple days. I think it's got to be the hot weather we've had and continue to have. I run all kinds of reasons through my head as to what could have killed those two beautiful, seemly healthy year and a half old chickens. I'm real good about refreshing their...

One of my Delaware hens wheezes. She otherwise appears alert and normal. Is it the heat? Mid-Missouri has been hot, hot lately. I generally let my chickens free range, they tend to find their own best place to hang in the heat which is usually my patio. I provide fresh, cool water all day along...

This morning when I let the girls out, I noticed one nest was wet like someone had peed. No one appears ill, there was an egg in the wet nest, and it doesn't look out of the norm. Anything I should be watching for?

One of my Easter Eggers laid a much smaller sized egg than normal. Is that normal? Should I be looking for something?

After reading all these posts on chickens being egg bound, and acting funny. I had to check to see if my Black Jersey died from being egg bound. I did indeed find a small egg, her vent also looked a little swollen. How long once the egg is formed does it pass? She didn't show any signs of being...

My heart is broken... I went out to the coop to close the girls up for the night and found one of my beautiful Black Jersey Giants dead under the nesting boxes. Still warm, not breathing, no obvious trauma. Everyone's been healthy, weather not out of the ordinary. I'm thinking maybe she flew up...

My chickens have a single roost above the nesting boxes, on occasion one of my Easter Eggers will roost on top of the nesting box but is below the roost. This is the second time I've moved her onto the roost, she makes noise, doesn't put up too much of a fight and looks like she goes right back...

I'm finding big differences in the bags of scratch I buy for my girls. Mostly made up of cracked corn,milo, some millet, some wheat. Some bags just label it as "grains," and some label the actual ingredients. At our MFA you can buy alot of grains in bulk and cheaper than if I buy the pre-mixed...

At night I don't offer extra light beyond this outdoor street lamp that's on our property. I understand the egg production drops with the shorter, colder days. Does the egg production come back say in the Spring, the start of warmer/longer days?

Is it legal to feed the wild geese that visit my property?

Two of my chickens molted a little this fall, one was about her head and has regrown the feathers and the other lost around her neck but the feathers haven't regrown fully yet. It's cold and snowing. I worry with the exposure she'll get sick. Should I stop fretting?

What causes the brown freckling on my chickens brown eggs?

We have a bad flea problem indoors, I understand you can use DE in the carpet. Anyone have? How did it work?