The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[armorfirelady]

not EVEN going to try to catch up

Welcome back !!!

herb list for chickens..I never remember them all..it is on the other chicken place [COLOR=3C3C3C]garlic, onion, chickweed dandelion, fennel, wormwood, rue, cleavers, cress, marigold, mint, vervain, comfrey, mullein roots, thyme, marjoram, sage, nasturtium, mugwort, goats rue, gotu kola and parsley and nettles.I use citrus peeling in nest boxes to deter bugs too.[/COLOR]
Once a month leaves such as horseradish, garlic, wormwood, tansy, elder, santolina, rue hyssop, goats rue, can be mixed with onions, grated carrots, mustard and pumpkin seeds and then added to feed at a rate of about 20%.
Nasturtium leaves and seeds have antiseptic and medicinal properties and are also good wormers.

Artemisia’s such as southernwood, wormwood, and other insect repellant herbs like tansy and fennel, when grown near the chicken coops can be used to control external parasites. Other good insecticidal herbs are rosemary, catnip, feverfew, and lavender.
These can also be grown near the places they forage so the chickens can brush past them or nibble on them.

Another great list!! I ordered so many seeds I am sure I will switch them around I'm sure, I forgot I got beet greens. Those will need to go in the chicken box as well. And I want to plant mint around the coop to keep the insects away. And nasturtium is a seed I got as well to plant around the coop as well. Leah's mom that's a great idea about over seeding. The one seed website I go on sells seed for pastures and ground covers. In fact that's where I got my ground cover for my veggie garden & I just ordered some more. I don't know if its non GMO or not. Mypatriotsupply.com. & outsidepride.com are where I got them last year and had great luck with them. And where I ordered from this year.

 

[Shan30]

Here is a picture. It is an early one so she is a bit smaller now. It won't be long before she will be growing way to fast just like her siblings did. Thank you to all of you for your congratulations.

Oh she's absolutely beautiful!

 

[Shan30]

here ya go Delisha 

http://tinyhouseblog.com/vardo/toms-custom-vardo/

Very cool! You much be enjoying yourself building these.

 

[lalaland]

here ya go Delisha

http://tinyhouseblog.com/vardo/toms-custom-vardo/

oh my gosh! I love them! I want one! dang, now to win the lottery. Really, though, that is an incredibly affordable wonderful tiny house.

 

[armorfirelady]

Sally the baby is beautiful. You are very blessed

 

[tjo804]

Help please...
My banny rooster Bean Has so really red skin around his vent should I put bag balm on it or is this a sign of something else?


it looks kind of chapped like a bad diaper rash.

 

[lazy gardener]

Check the coop for red roost mites. They come out to feed on the chickens at night. Do a thread search, and you'll learn more than I know or want to type right now.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Leah's mom that's a great idea about over seeding. The one seed website I go on sells seed for pastures and ground covers. In fact that's where I got my ground cover for my veggie garden & I just ordered some more. I don't know if its non GMO or not.
Mypatriotsupply.com. & outsidepride.com are where I got them last year and had great luck with them. And where I ordered from this year.

Thanks for the suppliers! I do think mypatriotsupply is non-gmo heirloom....but I need to check it out again.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Help please...
My banny rooster Bean Has so really red skin around his vent should I put bag balm on it or is this a sign of something else?


it looks kind of chapped like a bad diaper rash.

Is there a strong smell? Any discharge...whitish?

It may be a yeast infection (commonly called "gleet") If that's what it is it is easily treated and prevented for future

 

[GreenSoul]

I tried to do a search but am new can someone tell me where they get there favorite nongmo feeds from that ship?