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I get to play with cute chicks whenever I want and don't have all the work
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Chicken Tips - Take a Tip, Leave a Tip
- Thread starter Scooter&Suzie
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1. You can sell pretty chicken feathers for a few bucks apiece on craigslist to hairdressers.
2. The heated waterers are expensive but very worth it!
3. If you have a galvanized metal hanging feeder, they make a little "hat" for it for about $6 that keeps chicks from perching on the feeder.
4. When building your coop/run, consider creating an area that could easily isolate chickens (sick, new, etc). This is easier done before you have a sick chick than trying to create a separate area and care for a sick bird at the same time. Or will help when you realize you need new chickens and have to slowly introduce them to the flock.
2. The heated waterers are expensive but very worth it!
3. If you have a galvanized metal hanging feeder, they make a little "hat" for it for about $6 that keeps chicks from perching on the feeder.
4. When building your coop/run, consider creating an area that could easily isolate chickens (sick, new, etc). This is easier done before you have a sick chick than trying to create a separate area and care for a sick bird at the same time. Or will help when you realize you need new chickens and have to slowly introduce them to the flock.
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This is the best tip- my family got a real kick out of it when they came to visit. And it doesn't take much. I free range my chickens and all I had to do was start giving them treats in their run ONLY- no exceptions. A few consecutive days of their favorite thing coupled with "here chick chick" or whatever you want to say is all it takes. And more importantly than impressing family, if you need to leave (and don't like them out while you're gone) or if you perceive danger you can get them back to safety quickly and easily.
But since that's not an original tip, here's one (or 1.5...)
If you need water amendments (nutrients, electrolytes, whatever) for sick chickens but don't have any, use one of these two:
For chickens under the weather/weak/stressed/etc: 1/4 cup honey, 2 T. apple cider vinegar, and two crushed cloves of garlic per gallon of water (this is more of an infection fighter than the next one, so if there is any sort of disease going on stick with this one)
For chickens who may suffering from vitamin deficiencies (also good for stress): 2 T. apple cider vinegar and 2 T. Molasses per gallon of water AND either brewers yeast mixed into the feed OR (and this may sound weird, but it's something you more likely have on hand than brewer's yeast) get them to eat some canned chunk light tuna, the packed in water kind. I know home remedies get shrugged off a lot, but this combo contains all the same trace minerals and micronutrients that you get in a bag of electrolyte mix from the feed store.
This is the best tip- my family got a real kick out of it when they came to visit. And it doesn't take much. I free range my chickens and all I had to do was start giving them treats in their run ONLY- no exceptions. A few consecutive days of their favorite thing coupled with "here chick chick" or whatever you want to say is all it takes. And more importantly than impressing family, if you need to leave (and don't like them out while you're gone) or if you perceive danger you can get them back to safety quickly and easily.
But since that's not an original tip, here's one (or 1.5...)
If you need water amendments (nutrients, electrolytes, whatever) for sick chickens but don't have any, use one of these two:
For chickens under the weather/weak/stressed/etc: 1/4 cup honey, 2 T. apple cider vinegar, and two crushed cloves of garlic per gallon of water (this is more of an infection fighter than the next one, so if there is any sort of disease going on stick with this one)
For chickens who may suffering from vitamin deficiencies (also good for stress): 2 T. apple cider vinegar and 2 T. Molasses per gallon of water AND either brewers yeast mixed into the feed OR (and this may sound weird, but it's something you more likely have on hand than brewer's yeast) get them to eat some canned chunk light tuna, the packed in water kind. I know home remedies get shrugged off a lot, but this combo contains all the same trace minerals and micronutrients that you get in a bag of electrolyte mix from the feed store.
4. When building your coop/run, consider creating an area that could easily isolate chickens (sick, new, etc). This is easier done before you have a sick chick than trying to create a separate area and care for a sick bird at the same time. Or will help when you realize you need new chickens and have to slowly introduce them to the flock.
I wish I had done this. Now it will have to be added on.
I wish I had done this. Now it will have to be added on.
Keep a container by your cutting board in the kitchen for all your produce scraps. It's amazing how many bits of fruits and veggies you will collect in a day, assuming you actually eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Toss your eggshells, drained fat, and healthy leftovers in here too. By the end of each day you'll have a good sized container to take out and feed the chickens. I usually have a 2.5 quart container completely full everyday with carrot peelings, melon and squash guts, pepper seeds, strawberry tops, egg shells, etc.
I feed everything on a large pan and anything that doesn't get consumed goes into the compost bin the next day. I keep a separate compost container in my kitchen for the things I know the chickens won't eat, like onion peels, large leek leaves, etc.
Every week or so, I do a refridgerator clean and feed everything to the chickens. This usually includes homemade soups, casseroles, leftover cooked veggies, fresh veggies starting to go south and bits of meat. We don't eat anything preprocessed and very little fat or sugar so everything they get is healthy and natural.
Canning days are the chickens favorite. They end up getting huge quantities of produce scraps on those days. No matter what I'm canning there will be bountiful scraps for the chickens. This occurs at least a couple of times a month, sometimes much more frequently. They love when I'm canning tomatoes or fruits.
I feed everything on a large pan and anything that doesn't get consumed goes into the compost bin the next day. I keep a separate compost container in my kitchen for the things I know the chickens won't eat, like onion peels, large leek leaves, etc.
Every week or so, I do a refridgerator clean and feed everything to the chickens. This usually includes homemade soups, casseroles, leftover cooked veggies, fresh veggies starting to go south and bits of meat. We don't eat anything preprocessed and very little fat or sugar so everything they get is healthy and natural.
Canning days are the chickens favorite. They end up getting huge quantities of produce scraps on those days. No matter what I'm canning there will be bountiful scraps for the chickens. This occurs at least a couple of times a month, sometimes much more frequently. They love when I'm canning tomatoes or fruits.
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When picking chickens for free ranging, also remember that white chickens are like a bright beacon that says "eat me!". I've never had a white or light bird, chicken or guinea, survive for any length of time in a free range situation. I now know to chose more " Camo" colored birds so that predators can't spot them as easily from a distance.
When picking chickens for free ranging, also remember that white chickens are like a bright beacon that says "eat me!". I've never had a white or light bird, chicken or guinea, survive for any length of time in a free range situation. I now know to chose more " Camo" colored birds so that predators can't spot them as easily from a distance.
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This is the best tip- my family got a real kick out of it when they came to visit. And it doesn't take much. I free range my chickens and all I had to do was start giving them treats in their run ONLY- no exceptions. A few consecutive days of their favorite thing coupled with "here chick chick" or whatever you want to say is all it takes. And more importantly than impressing family, if you need to leave (and don't like them out while you're gone) or if you perceive danger you can get them back to safety quickly and easily.
But since that's not an original tip, here's one (or 1.5...)
If you need water amendments (nutrients, electrolytes, whatever) for sick chickens but don't have any, use one of these two:
For chickens under the weather/weak/stressed/etc: 1/4 cup honey, 2 T. apple cider vinegar, and two crushed cloves of garlic per gallon of water (this is more of an infection fighter than the next one, so if there is any sort of disease going on stick with this one)
For chickens who may suffering from vitamin deficiencies (also good for stress): 2 T. apple cider vinegar and 2 T. Molasses per gallon of water AND either brewers yeast mixed into the feed OR (and this may sound weird, but it's something you more likely have on hand than brewer's yeast) get them to eat some canned chunk light tuna, the packed in water kind. I know home remedies get shrugged off a lot, but this combo contains all the same trace minerals and micronutrients that you get in a bag of electrolyte mix from the feed store.
These are great! If you can't find brewers yeast, nutritional yeast, which vegans use as a cheese substitute will work well too. Loaded with B vitamins.
This is the best tip- my family got a real kick out of it when they came to visit. And it doesn't take much. I free range my chickens and all I had to do was start giving them treats in their run ONLY- no exceptions. A few consecutive days of their favorite thing coupled with "here chick chick" or whatever you want to say is all it takes. And more importantly than impressing family, if you need to leave (and don't like them out while you're gone) or if you perceive danger you can get them back to safety quickly and easily.
But since that's not an original tip, here's one (or 1.5...)
If you need water amendments (nutrients, electrolytes, whatever) for sick chickens but don't have any, use one of these two:
For chickens under the weather/weak/stressed/etc: 1/4 cup honey, 2 T. apple cider vinegar, and two crushed cloves of garlic per gallon of water (this is more of an infection fighter than the next one, so if there is any sort of disease going on stick with this one)
For chickens who may suffering from vitamin deficiencies (also good for stress): 2 T. apple cider vinegar and 2 T. Molasses per gallon of water AND either brewers yeast mixed into the feed OR (and this may sound weird, but it's something you more likely have on hand than brewer's yeast) get them to eat some canned chunk light tuna, the packed in water kind. I know home remedies get shrugged off a lot, but this combo contains all the same trace minerals and micronutrients that you get in a bag of electrolyte mix from the feed store.
These are great! If you can't find brewers yeast, nutritional yeast, which vegans use as a cheese substitute will work well too. Loaded with B vitamins.
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