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We lost a chicken today :(
We found our beloved Blitz dead today. She was fine last night when we put her to bed. She was one of three hens we had raised from chicks we had got this past August. This is their first summer. The coop is shaded by citrus trees and there is a drip
Read more…The feedlot, talk about a huge selection of breeds!!!
Yesterday after checking out their post on craigslist, I went up to the feedlot, which is pretty far for most of us at 19th ave and deer valley (2020 W. Adobe is the exact address) but man did they have a HUGE selection of breeds. The operation is ru
Read more…i have too many chicks
i have 3 New Hampshire red pullets i would like to sell. they are about 8 weeks old now and i will sell them for $5.00 each. if anyone is interested let me know
Read more…Question about Breeds
Hello everyone! I just want to start out by saying you guys are all so awesome- I love reading everything you all post!I'm just going to be settling into my new house hopefully next month, and building a coop and getting ready to start my garden, etc
Read more…White Leghorn Cockerel : Free to a loving home : SNOW WHITE FOUND A NEW HOME
What can I do to calm my broody duck?
I have 3 Khaki Campbell ducks. One of them has become broody over the last week. My hens free range, but are fenced in a smaller portion of the yard at night. This is where they lay their eggs, so as soon as I noticed her not getting off her nest in
Read more…8 month old Silver laced polish hen for sale $10
I'm switching up my flock making room for new and different breeds and I'm selling my polish. I gave her a haircut last season so she could see. :) She's a standard polish, but even a standard sized is in-between bantam and "normal" standard size. Sh
Read more…HELP!!!! MY CHICK IS CHOKING
I don't know what is wrong with her....she looks pretty weak and she is sort of gasping for air...it almost looks like she is hickupping or choking. It doesn't feel like she has any blockages....WHAT SHOULD I DO??
Read more…Trapping Crickets or Other Insects for the Chickens
Last year I had a lot of crickets out in the coop area maybe due to the moisture from their mister. The problem was the crickets would only come out at night while the chickens were roosting. So, I set out a large glass bowl half filled with water an
Read more…deep litter question
I am trying the deep litter method and everything I read says the trick is to have it be very dry. So If you are planning on misting the chickens some in the summer does this mean you shouldn't use the deep litter method or is it so hot here it doesn
Read more…What can I feed them??
My new chicks are just a week or 2 old and I feed them Organic Chick Feed from Pratts. What I want to know is how soon can I feed them other stuff. I put them in the yard each day and they pick at the grass & bugs, but I don't know when I can start f
Read more…Think one of my hens is a rooster...
I am a newbie chicken owner - we have four chickens - 2 Barred Rocks and 2 Buff Orpingtons. I am pretty sure one of the Barred Rocks is a rooster - he/she hasn't begun crowing - yet - but this morning his vocalizations began sounding like he has lary
Read more…Toxicity of cedar shavings...Question resolved, chips in coop are not cedar
EEEK....I just read a posting on Kitchen Gardeners concerning cedar shavings & toxicity. I had not heard of this before. My chickens are all on a bed of cedar shavings. I am doing DLM, the initial 2 inches were pine , but the other 2-4 inches are ced
Read more…Nice Article
There is a nice article about urban chickens, and the chicken classes held by Rachel in the summer edition of "Wavelength" the magazine for KJZZ. Great to see this here in the valley!
Read more…Anyone interested in going in on an order of Meat Birds this fall?
I'm going to be ordering some meat birds this fall and of course the more you get, the cheaper it is. I'll be doing the jumbo cornish cross that you can harvest in about 8 weeks. The price breakdown, including shipping, works out to about this, if we
Read more…Free Ranging the youngins
Here is the conundrum:When I only had 4 little 6-8 week old chicklets & they didn't have their coop delux yet, I took them out every morning & put them on the grass in a play pen/dog yard type thing with chicken wire all over the top & side. They lov
Read more…Finally
Well, after literally MONTHS of agonising, I finally plucked up the courage to ask our neighbour if she would mind us getting a couple of chicks, and you know she said YES! I am amazed and happy, and wishing I hadn't waited so long now, but anyway.I
Read more…Chicken Vets
I am a newbie chicken mama with 3 hens my 18 yo daughter brought home as a result of her FFA interests. We built an awesome coop and run for them but the day we moved them in from the temp 4x4 cage one of them stopped laying and it's been 8 days sinc
Read more…Bacteria Inside Red Mites Could Be Targeted To Control Poultry Pests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070905081542.htmprobably THE most interesting site I've ever been on. I thought of Rachel when I saw this article
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