Recent content by TillyPeeps

Azure is the best place that you can get cheap high quality organic grains. Their chicken feed also have very reasonable prices.

I currently feed my hens fermented S&P grower mash too, but give them new country organics gamebird crumbles as free-choice dry feed. They mostly eat S&P grower, which is only 17% protein, so a small amount 26% protein gamebird crumbles on top of it makes it just right. I have some hens not...

My chickens also dislike pellets but eat crumbles and whole grain types of feed, even though these feeds had the same ingredients and were from the same manufacture. I just don't buy pellets anymore.

My son is never tired of watching the movie and just named one of his chicks Ruffnut. :D He insists Toothless is a boy's name so it cannot be used for his chicks.

That's really horrible! Hopefully the chicks will be ok. I'm sure someone will take them. I just received my chicks from Meyer this week. One of the silkies is a buff instead of splash. I'm a little disappointed but I told them that I don't need refund since it's still a silkie. I originally...

My fresh catmint and marshmallow seeds from baker creek didn't germinate too well either. Out of over 25 catmint seeds sawed, I got one germinated. And 3 marshmallow germinated.

Yeah, that's what I have.

My EE was broody when she was only 18w old. She was a mix of black ameraucana and a California grey. Neither of the parent chickens are known for broodiness. I have several black, lavender, and blue Ameraucanas, none of them ever went to broody. California grey is definitely not broody either.

They seemed loving it! I thought the plate is quite hot, but they loved to sleep against it when they were just a few day old. They moved to the higher side in a few days though, then I know it's time to raise it.

I always have one side of my heating pad very low and the other side much higher, so the chicks can find a comfort height themselves. During the first few days, the lower side is almost touching the ground and the higher side is a couple inches higher than their backs. I raise the plate every...

That's possible. I found pine shavings in my chicks' poo before. Chicks are really curious and would try all kind of strange things.

The symptoms are very typical Marek's symptoms. Marek's vaccination does not work 100%. And it also highly depends on how good you sanitized around them during the first two weeks after they got vaccinations. I had a great success one time with one of vaccinated chicks died and lost half of...

My Maran is always getting her crop clogged by eating too much grass. Does your chick have access to grass?

Stretching neck to adjust crop is a very typical sign of sour crop. Definitely do Miconazole treatment. The hard part is to figure out what causes the sour crop. It could be worm, illness, impacted crop, etc. It wouldn't hurt to treat for Coccidiosis. I would also give her coconut oil and...

Squirrels don't bother my gardens too much, but they stole some eggs last year. I didn't get any blue egg for a while last early summer and didn't think about it because my ameraucanas are seasonal layers. One day I went to check the chickens and heard a squirrel screaming and running away. I...