newhamplover
Chirping
Oldhen I almost always agree with you, we seem to see things a lot the same way. I am very much all natural as much as possible. I personally would never do DE or apple cider in their water. I wouldn't want to drink water with that in it!!!! We have wonderful well water & that is what they drink, the same as I do. I am old school, like my Grandpa taught me, & he always said the closer you keep anything to mother nature the better off it is & I agree.I've had chickens live to almost 10 years of age with never being wormed. Nature knows what it is doing. I always speak from my experiences with keeping goats. I have had goats die from worms, worming them did nothing, they still died or needed to be put down. Breeding for resistance is a better option. I keep my own chickens to have clean food, putting chemicals in them doesn't make sense to me.
Glad to hear someone else thinks the same as me about it. And I lied a bit, I get attached to some of my chickens, but I don't handle them a lot. I still really enjoy them and want the best for them and to give them the best life. Mine are 100% free range, so it probably does help with keeping them healthy.
Oh I hope mine live to be 10 years. I am way too attached to them.