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A regular fecal float test is awesome advice, thank you. I would way rather know exactly what is (or is not going on) than trying to treat something that may not even be an issue because I am just learning the ropes. With so many broody hens I may just go back to the basics and buy an organic...

9 chicks are 3 months and were hatched and raised by my first broody hen. I offered organic chicken feed for the babies and my mixture for her and she taught them how to eat that so I actually stopped offering the mix after two weeks because I kept having to just change it out to keep it clean...

Nope, we normally get 1 (sometimes even 2) eggs a day from each bird, right now we are not getting any because 5 have gone broody and are sitting on almost 40 eggs combined. That’s another new lesson we are figuring out. I put about a cup of food grade DE evenly dispersed in a large metal trash...

Thank you for sharing that article, I did find lots of great information there and especially appreciated the doses being provided for each treatment option. I still think I would like to try natural prevention, as there is currently no parasite problem presenting itself, but will absolutely...

This is where I got the recipe from . I actually mix in an organic commercial feed in the winter months, but right now they have access to so many bugs and forage I wasn’t concerned about lack of protein or minerals. What signs should I be looking for in my birds that may indicate a deficiency...

I’m new at this!! I have had my Lavender Orpington flock for a year and a month and we have had a very humid, wet summer in WNC. I’m really needing some experience/strength/hope on preventing/treating my birds for worms and parasites. Which ones? I have no idea, but I’m going to say ALL of them...