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The BlanchRanch said:
Well, my Lois has wheezing and was just standing there and let out an egg with no shell at all and then some poop. Acting Lethargic. Any Ideas?
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Heat stress. Have you been giving any electrolytes and vitamins? Try that. They are all feeling the same as us other two-leggeds, bedraggled and tired, plus the older ones a heading into the molting season, so they are definitely compromised right now.
 
duluthralphie said:
I have a question about city chickens. I see so many people on (and this is not brought on my anyone on this thread) that have chickens and say they could never kill (cull) one. I admit it is a terrible thing to do but sometimes needs to be done. Chickens require feed to live, feed is not cheap.

So if a person lives somewhere they can only have 6 chickens, and the chickens get to be 3-4 years old and are no longer laying eggs, Do they keep the chickens until they die a natural death in another 3-4 years? Do they take the chickens for a one-way car ride and kick them loose in the country, so someone else has to deal with it?

What good is a coop full of 7 year old hens? I understand if they are just pets, but most often you hear people say they got chickens for the eggs and the pet part is incidental. Just curious.

I know what mine will become when they are no longer productive, luckily for me and not them, I love chicken noodle soup.
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Well, city people made the rules. Should I say more? I personally will do what needs to be done. I am not sure if the law is you can't cull them or just not raise them with the intent to use them for meat. Either way it is a stupid law.
 
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Our dogs were going nuts last night too. We have enough critters running around I was certain it was cottontails, our cats or deer, maybe a coon. We need to get rid of the cottontails that decimated half our garden this year. We didn't put a fence up like we talked about, but right now, I don't think we would have kept up any better than we did without it, so nothing to cry over. One reason I am cutting back on the hatching business, not enough time to do anything else.
 
KlopKlop said:
Can chickens eat acorns? My oak tree is heavy this year. I was thinking of collecting some and lightly smashing them for the girls to pick through
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Mine do but they wait until they are cracked open with either the mower or freezing. Turkeys eat the things whole, but they have no brains.
 
But Ralphie. They have a gizzard and rocks in said gizzard. Yeah I don't think my chickens know what they are for sure unless they are cracked open for them. Although they have been foraging ALOT these last few weeks.

Combination factors: Seed heads on the grasses are good right now. Cooler weather for moving about. Or a new hatch of bugs and grasshoppers maybe....maybe... I wish I had more time to follow them around and watch. I love that. I know they love the crab grass seeds.
 
duluthralphie said:
Mine do but they wait until they are cracked open with either the mower or freezing.  Turkeys eat the things whole, but they have no brains.
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I was thinking of putting them in a burlap sack and driving over a few times. They don't range far enough to find them on their own, but that is ok with me
 

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