people with house chickens

[subhanalah]

Subhana how often do the chickens have "shooters" or cecal poops? Happen to be enjoying the weather outside and all my chickens outside when my Ameracauna shot a pure liquid poop while scratching for bugs. I am not easily grossed out... I am also a nurse, but was on the verge lol I will give my girls some mash they love it.
The older babies were out in their playpen too lol started peeping when they lost sight of me!

Every 8-10 evacuations. Mine seem to hold it until they are let out of their brooder every morning...blech

 

[Chickie Momma]

Phantom your video is hysterical! What an adorable chicken.... I would spoil him

 

[Chickie Momma]

Thanks Subhanalah! A fact I didn't know, but I am sure Helen did it because she was out exercising
and worked it out lol My SLW chick is getting sooo spoiled and is so comical. She scratches up a storm and dumps out her dish so we just feed her directly on the bottom of the brooder since its changed daily. I think when she gets older and its hot out she will need a chicken pool because she likes to wade in her waterer too. Despite the perfect temp of the brooder.

 

[subhanalah]

Thanks Subhanalah! A fact I didn't know, but I am sure Helen did it because she was out exercising
and worked it out lol My SLW chick is getting sooo spoiled and is so comical. She scratches up a storm and dumps out her dish so we just feed her directly on the bottom of the brooder since its changed daily. I think when she gets older and its hot out she will need a chicken pool because she likes to wade in her waterer too. Despite the perfect temp of the brooder.

I highly recommend fermenting your feed, the benefits are exponential compared to dry food, not only economically but also health wise for the chooks.

 

[DarleneE]

Where do I get this type of feed? I'm SO sorry.. as you can see I'm REALLY new to all this. They're just eating a regular chicken feed that they sold me at the feed store that they said was appropriate to their 12 wks of age. I think they called it egg layer?? They also eat some scratch as well. Thank you and again sorry to sound so dumb but I just don't know??

 

[Chickie Momma]

Just took my ponytail down and Lacey is enjoying snuggling in my hair against my neck. Perhaps like I am her momma and my hair is my feathers?
Her wing feathers are coming in quite nicely and her appetite is growing too! She gets 2 room mates tomorrow...2 australorp chicks. I will take pics!

 

[PBGGG]

Ahh! I am dying from all of the chicken pics!!

17 more days until the youth day, a.k.a Finn's testing day. Apparently, when they test him, they put a band around his leg and I have to keep it on until the show (which is a month after that.) I'm just getting so excited for it! I might just enter him in the mixed breed category. I don't know if there is blood testing to see if he is purebred or not? I don't think he could be, because from seeing the neighbors chickens they look mixed, but I have no idea about that stuff.

 

[Chickie Momma]

I love Finn, no matter what he is! I wish you luck at the show. He is adorable no matter what

 

[subhanalah]

Where do I get this type of feed? I'm SO sorry.. as you can see I'm REALLY new to all this. They're just eating a regular chicken feed that they sold me at the feed store that they said was appropriate to their 12 wks of age. I think they called it egg layer?? They also eat some scratch as well. Thank you and again sorry to sound so dumb but I just don't know??

there is no reason to degrade yourself. Please don't say you sound "dumb" it kind of hurts my feelings.

If you have a layer formula, you need to get chick starter ASAP. The extra calcium in the layer is bad for chick's and it doesn't have enough protein for growing chicks.

Fermented feed is something you make yourself. You take their chick crumbles add water, stir occasionally and in three days, it's"done." Add more food and water daily to keep the culture going. There are many threads on BYC about fermented feed.

 

[PhantomChikkinz]

Phantom your video is hysterical! What an adorable chicken.... I would spoil him

Thanks! Haha. Oh, and she is SOOOOO spoiled, you wouldn't believe it. She's the one who sleeps in the bedroom on the bookshelf!

She begs at the table along with the dogs, and always gets treats (because it's impossible for me to tell her no). She's completely oblivious to the fact that she's a bird, I think. From what I can tell, she considers herself part canine and part human.

She is now at the point where she is only in her enclosure when nobody is home. The rest of the time, she roams pretty much anywhere she pleases. Oh, and I'm not sure if I shared this with everyone yet, but she chases doves out of the yard constantly; she even flies after them. Hahaha!