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Matella, Our Buckeyes are on pasture during the day and cooped at night. During the day they forage both in and out of the coop (which definitely saves $$$ on feed). I've seen our girls eat snakes, lizards, bugs (of course), scorpions, moles, and even chipmunks (no lie!) but their favorite...

Ocap, we've had a midget or two hatch out over the years. One was a cockerel who finished up being a whopping 3lb cock. Despite dedicated attempts to find him a home in a Buckeye bantam flock (what chicks would that bad boy have thrown!?!) he ended up a pet in Florida. Of all the undersized...

Here's a question to everyone. We know that too much calcium for developing pullets can be harmful, but what do you do if your pullets are free-ranging and have access (limited as it may be) to the layer rations that the hens are eating. I can't really prevent them from getting some of the...

Chris, I didn't see the baby chick under (behind?) the broody until I clicked on the picture you posted and blew it up. O M G that is so friggin' cute

At our place we usually don't candle until after day 10. Waiting usually means that being able to see what is likely to hatch vs what is likely not to hatch is very plain. 'Course it's warmed up enough that the broodies are doing all the work for us now so all we have to do is watch the calender

FAF Try this sometime: get a good sized spade, go to one mound and in one pass of the spade get as much of the active mound as you can and go dump it on its neighboring mound, do likewise to the dump-ee taking a spade full from it and deposit on the original mound. What happens is that the...

Tailfeathers, Generally, sulfonamides, the drug class for the active ingredient in Sulmet, are *not* problematic. There is a caveat to this statement, sulfonamides if not properly dosed/mixed do have the potential to cause problems in the liver. Herein lies the thorny problem, proper...

Quote: I thought I'd chime in here. I'm a firm supporter of homeopathic remedies as long as there is reliable science and study behind them. "Ionic Silver" is a non-pharmaceutical commercial name for both colloidal and nano-particle silver. You're right when you say that both bacteria and...

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VM, I've noticed that when our hens raise chicks out of doors and on free range, they don't look as tho they're keeping up with those in the brooder at first. But, only at first. Around week 4-6 they generally look about on par in size as the brooder chicks only their color, vigor...

Quote: I've noticed that Urch birds have several admirable qualities. 1) Their combs tend to be uniform and classically pea-type. 2) Urch birds tend to the red spectrum of "Mahogany Bay"-- think of a fine piece of 'flame' mahogany and you have a general idea of the gradation of color. The color...

You know, That twigged a blurb I read not too long ago about getting liver, suet, and mixed grains equal parts, giving 'em a good blitz in the food processor, put it in a mould, pop it in the freezer and voila': slightly disgusting but highly nutritious treat for the birdies especially at the...