Reviews by Debbie292d

Thank you for this article and all the great pictures you have to help explain it. We have a member with a newly hatched chick presenting with curled toes so wanted to show them how to splint it. I shared this with the member, and grateful I found this!

This is a great article. I'm an old chicken tenderer, and have helped answer questions through the years, but now I'll just share your article when someone asks.

The only thing I personally don't agree with is to just worm my chickens to prevent something they don't have or get. I've never had to worm mine, and if the time comes, I will then.

Excellent article and pictures! I'm sharing it with someone who is asking about bumblefoot. Thank you!

Thank you for this very helpful article. A member is asking about treating it and I searched for an article and like yours so sharing it.

Love this! We have a huge garden, wildflower field, and a woods behind us. There are a lot of things around here they shouldn't have, such as Lily of the Valley which grows wild on the hill, and whoever said silkies were smart, but they don't eat it. This is a great reference though for some things I SHOULD grow. Thank you!

Thank you for the great article! We have someone asking about assisting with a duck egg and I searched articles to find a good one to refer him to, and found yours. I shared it with them. Thank you!

We've got someone interested in doing this and looked for a good article to explain it. Yours fits the bill so I'll share it with them. Thanks for a good job!

This is awesome and filled with so many good ideas to try, and if not, you have alternatives there which is great as things often depend on the breed or types of chickens we're all dealing with. I love the Plan B of raising the temp pen with bricks. Ingenious!

This is a cut/paste job from https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=17568.0 but saw you gave them credit. You could find one for ducks to add to it and make this more of a resource, as many of us just go to the above link for chickens.

I was looking for a resource for someone with a duck that has bumblefoot and came upon this and skimmed it. I love how thorough it is. The font is very small to me but perhaps you did that intentionally. Good article though!

Educational! Love this. I was trying to help someone find out what is wrong with their red sex-link but after many back and forth's and not resolving their issue, now I think I know. I shared this with them.

I just came across a new member with a cross beak asking for help, so found your article and skimmed it. I am impressed as it covers everything I've heard over the years but never had to use because I've not had the issue. I just love that I can share this with that new member or, from now on, anyone else who needs guidance! A+++++

I was searching for DIY incubators and read yours. It's awesome; however, pictures tell 1000 words, is the saying. Also, any updates would be great to see.

Awesome explanation to give confidence to those of us who don't want to mess it up! Very thorough and great pictures too!

I had a chick that would pull on the toes of other chicks. Not peck, pull, and pull so hard he'd tip the other chicks off their feet. He'd go one to another, like on a mission. I would sit there for half an hour watching him, tapping his back when he'd do it, and I could tell when he was going to do it so tapped him before he did it. I'd leave for a couple hours and come back to two chicks with bleeding toes, so that wasn't working. Hubby finished building the new brooder and it wasn't that the old one was too small, but this one was double the size. That did it! Thanks for the ideas. That was about 6 months ago and I forgot to rate your article that helped me.

Thank you for such thoroughness in explaining these afflictions. I haven't had chickens with either, but was just searching for an article to help someone on here who does. I'm sharing it with them.

We've used horse bedding pellets for years in our coop. Most recently, we started using them in our brooder when chicks are just a few days old. The only difference between you and us is we don't touch the pellets in the coop for a year. Every spring, we put down about 3-4" of them in an 8x12' coop, and for 18 chickens, that lasts until next spring.

I was looking for ideas to pen silkies for breeding I'll be doing this coming spring. I like the pictures, but if you could go to edit, then go to the right side of one of the pictures and hit "return", you can then type explanations underneath them. That would be very helpful! I love it though and some great pictures!

That is cute as a bugs ear! Totally adorable!

I love it and lucky for you to adopt/adapt a coop.

This though " (tip, knock them into cold water and they’ll freeze)" referencing Japenese beetles. I heard somewhere else someone say they knock them all into cold water, freeze it, and then let the chickens have it. Is that what you mean or literally, the cold water freezes them? We have a lot of them here on some of our birch and raspberry bushes mostly.