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so may of the seeds can be toxic to chickens, did you know some poisons are made from certain seeds?

Lacto fermenting you put the grains in a bucket about half full of them then add water ti fill the bucket, stir it when your going to feed and add more when you take out, initial takes 3 days befor eready to start feeding them, the longer it goes you start seeing some sprouts in there but it...

Mine love spinach, garlic and all sorts if fruit and vegetables. Cilantro seems to be their current favorite for greens, what I fo as it's easy and so prolific is do several buckets to grow inside and then cut and toss to them, that way they aren't tearing it up. I lacto ferment 3*1 without...

always will Laura, did ya have a question

yeah got friends that have old ones they've replaced offering them to me, my RIR hens see to be related to curious george lol. They took over the dog igloo and the carriers so doubt they'd have much trouble with something new like this. They are pretty funny come knocking on the door thinking...

is still alive and kicking her just didn't feel like it for some time, need an opinion though as I live in Cold northern state would this work for nesting boxes? saw it posted as they had made that for their dog, y chickens owuld use it and might cut down on frozen eggs in the winter time, sure...

we did some little round squash for them this year as they really liked that, but gave it to em whole and that really seemed to keep the pecking down as they were to busy trying to get into the middle where the seeds they wanted were, never thought of using em to put their feed in will try that...

ok anyone want broody hens? all werebought at the local farm store, have 9 that wanted to brood after the first one hatched out, and of those that hatched have 2 determined to brood since they laid their first egg lol, and the others are catcching on. not going to be a fun winter as it's to...

well mystery why my older hens started laying small eggs like when they fist started figured out. Went out this morning to check the live trap, we had caught 2 cats in it this week, and found a skunk in it, eggs next day are back to normal size after a month of tiny ones

I suspect have 2 roosters got a couple of silver laced wyandette chicks this spring and one is looking to be a rooster they are so totally different and one mixed roo + the 2 older ones and so far only have the main flock protector that crows, but the 2 juvenile roos are with the flock they were...

after taking care of this hen for 6 weeks gotta rehome her, that's gonna be hard, but she's not living in my house lol. she's smaller than the others that hatched with her and super docile

well I got a little one I nursed after it was attacked pretty bad, took it 6 weeks for it's neck to finally heal after they about took it's head off, now it don't think it should be with other birds unless it's in my arms, 5 months old and still cannot tell if it's a hen or roo. thinking if this...

mine for some reason don't like apple cider vinegar but love the home made pickling stuff and we use white distilled for that. might be due to the garlic too though. They get mad for me limiting how much garlic they get so it's one thing I didn't plant in the garden this year or i'd have a...

Always nice when ya get peace back with what works for you

yeah they think it's a fun game to try and get what the other has just in case it was better than what they had lol, with them going through molt right now even giving em feather fixer doesn't seem to be giving them enough so their new favorite thing to pig out on is pickled anything, she did...

ours don't like bread but give em fruit and veggies and they all turn into hogs, lettuce causes tug o war game between ducks and chickens lol

I think probably legend Leah, I have BR,BO, BS and now SW and a couple stray leghorns, but they all free range for a good part of the day too and they all seem to eat about the same amount of the laying feed other than the leghorns are light weights only time i've seen them eat the laying feed...

well we let the mean one back today after a week penned up with the his almost 5 month old son then moving his son back 2 days ago he was more than upset but when we let him back into the flock he's being a perfect rooster now. so may take more than 3 days as this was 3rd time we had separated...

well lost the pullet I worked so hard to save almost 4 months ago for 3 days, probably because of hatch troubles, was fine had been playing outside that day, when went to bed and dead in the morning, the other 2 are showing signs of cocci, store wasn't open so used what I had and it's working...

doesn't matter if they were together from what i'm seeing, our nice one turned on us as he's been second in command and now the other ones gone he's acting more like him. the ones that haven't been around others haven't seen it to pick the bad behaviors up and will happily sit in laps for a...