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Cooked potatoes are fine. Raw have a bit too much selenium in them. Storey's is only half right. I pour the water that I cooked the potaoes in over the peelings. Presto they are cooked by the time they are cooled. Never actually fed a chicken yogurt. If your looking for probiotics try...

OK Zanny I got lost and confused somewhere in there, but I'll try to provide an answer of sorts. Hens develop the red puffy combs when they come into lay. That's what you are seeing in the pictures of adult BOs. That being said there have been a few instances that I was sure I had a young...

Hope these answers help you and good luck.

I'm going to weigh in on the mutts vs. old strains. I know I shouldn't, but I just can't sit by and watch my old girls get maligned. We have some old mutts that we got as old hens as our young son wanted chickens and I had been without for a couple of years due to an injury. We received 6...

Originally Posted by Wishing4Wings I have just finished reading the first 50 pages of this post. Only 280 more pages to go!!?? By the time I finish reading to look for an answer to my question, it will be too late! (Sorry if this is a repeat.) Is there a way to tell when a pullet is...

I personally eat nothing that died from unknown causes. Now if the chick was going down on its legs I would put it down and eat whatever meat there was. But finding it already dead? No matter how freshly dead I think it may be I'm not gonna do anything but incinerate it. I know for some that...

Dont think of it as being a late coming OT. Your really making a fashionably late entrance. Anyway I would think that all with sage advise are welcome and most advice is picked and chosen from. And that's as it should be as each person has their own unique situation and set up. There are so...

Here in Wisconsin we do get some extreme temps in the mid to late summer months. I have no problems running a few extension cords and putting fans down in the drainage ditch they and my son frequent. It's surrounded by trees and densly covered with brush for shade. I keep my waterers filled...

I sure hope you have some DCs with the same genetics as my girls. They will kill anything they think might be tasty. Thankfully they like me, but my rubber boots have seemed to set them off today. Carmelita one of my most docile kept pecking and cackling trying to get those things off me...

The only theropod I know anything about is a dinosaur. Youngest boy is eight and still a bit into them. If someone else knows anything about it chime right in as I'm curious.

I agree! My summer doors are that way. I have several angled across as well as corner bracing, but how I do things and how others do are two different things. I think they just thought it was over kill, and well theirs just ended up being kill. I do mine that way for strenght and durability...

The Hardware cloth was screwed between 2 x 4's and it torn right smack in the middle of where it was pulled. It was pulled with some force. I can tell you I wouldn't have wanted to come into contact with that bunch of coyotes. Ever since then my Husband always follows me down to the coops...

Man, I wish my olfactory sences would let me do the DLM. Then again I don't mind the springy bedding in the garden.

I myself have always used a mix of both chicken wire and hardware cloth. I utilize other predator tools as well. Things like live traps which are regularly filled with one type of varmint or other. They are sneaky but stupid in our neck of the woods. We do not catch and release. Well alive...

I tried it last year for the first time with my raised portable coops (again large sheds) and my opinion is it's not worth my time and effort. I hate the smell of chicken poo and am changing my bedding at least once a month if not more. So I heard that it was this awesome wonderful solution...

And here I've been thinking it's when the eight year old goes off to college. Good grief I could of been living it up for the last 30 years. Now you tell me. NOW that I'm way to old to live it up! Figures. You live and learn and once you learn it you forgot what you were supposed to do with it.

I made it on my husbands shop smith. It's large enough to see from the road even with 60 mile an hour traffic. I will have to measure it, as I just used scrap wood which is generally my favorite building material. I cut it and then painted it. We post it into a Large flower urn so we don't...

I'm gonna jump in and say I loved my electric fence netting. I lastly used it to keep the big girls away from the young ones. The grass is always greener and the baby food is so much better than what they have. I first got it when we lived in town and had a small flock kept there (before we...

Leahs Mom I have a similar set up. Our property boarders a major US hwy on one side the long way and on the backside we have the railroad tracks. On one of the short sides is our shared driveway with our neighbor that lives up the hill from us. I have no problems with the chickens going into...

That's so cute! He's a good single dad. I bet the babies are going to out weight him before he's figured out they aren't so much babies anymore. I'm guessing he's loving all the adulation from the chicks.