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we have 20+ Orpington hens and chicks or various ages. it's canning season here and i am making grape jams/butter which requires removal of seeds. can i give the offal of the grape processing to my hens? i know you can give them grapes, but it's a little more than "a grape or two" - it's SEEDS...

this will be my first year attending the 2021 Ohio Poultry Show. it is a 3.5 hour from our home and i am specifically going to purchase some quality pullets. anyone know how to find out what breeders will be participating at the show? i know it's only August, but i am so excited . . .

2-3 year old hen. Just finds an out of the way corner in coop or yard and sits. Currently placing food and water near her during the day.

2-3 year old hen. Just finds an out of the way corner in coop or yard and sits. Currently placing food and water near her during the day.

our neighbor lost all her chickens to a racoon raid. after reinforcing her pen, she has restarted her flock with some young chicks. they are about a month old now and i have a young rooster i would like to give her for that flock. he is about 4-5 months old. does anyone see a problem with this?

i have been getting quite a few eggs with "warts" on the end of their shells. any idea what that might be caused by? age? my girls are age 3+ and i'm thinking that may be issue. inside is typical egg - egg white and yolk. just the outside with all the bumps.

I took my little Seabright chicken back to her flock on Wednesday and she sang when I put her in a nesting box of her coop. Couldn't catch the song because I was so surprised ~ she'd never done that before! Then today I brought her back to her cage/the garage because she was being harassed be...

we have goats and i've just finished giving them their lice treatment - Permectrin CDS. does anyone know if this pour-on insecticide would be o.k. to use and spray on my roosting poles? what do you use to keep lice/parasites at bay (besides Diatomaceous earth sprinkled in their nesting boxes)?

i have lots of 22% turkey feed left over this year. would it be healthy to give my layers the turkey ration for increased protein over the winter with supplemental calcium powder and egg shells/oyster shells for egg integrity?

one of my hens has lost all her toenails. i just noticed it and am unsure how that could happen. any ideas?

i'm not sure if it's his age - he's 3.5 years old - or if it is something else. he just seems "out of steam" these days. when he walks, when he stands (totters) or when he runs. he also ran into a cattle fence the other day and just dropped to the ground. should i give him and my other 3 adults...

we have had our 2 female runners sitting on eggs (appr 12) for several weeks now. they are in a shelter overnight with their 2 male counterparts (for safety)and released every morning by 9am to roam the pond area. over the past week i have found one egg each day that has been eaten/broken -...

my runner male is 3 years old and has suddenly had problems with his legs. i forgot about giving them niacin (!) and don't remember dosage(s). can anyone help me with treating him? we also have 2 ducklings hatched the end of july. seem to be doing o.k.

we have a momma runner duck that hatched 2 chicks (5 eggs remain) this weekend. we moved her to a cage to protect her from the weather (we had hail on saturday) and better monitor the hatchlings. what do we feed them? they are in a dog crate with a small dish of chick food and a bowl of water...

last night found 1 ck bleeding in wing area. cleaned it up + put in cage to recupe. this a.m. another is being attacked. what to do? (ck sleeping in my hand now-hard typing)

we sold 5 live meat birds to a client last week. the customer wanted to process them himself, so we got a large box, punched holes in it and put the birds in. they were in the box 20 minutes before he arrived and alive when he left. he told me today that they were dead when he got home. i feel...

i will be switching to non-GMO feed for the last 4 weeks of my freedom ranger's stay on my farm. how would that affect the meat? how would it affect the birds? i'm more inclined to go non-GMO in the future, since it seems it's a bigger issue to people in my geographic area. thoughts? advice?

last night i noticed that one my turkeys' head had a purple cast to it. it wasn't red like the others. i also noticed that she was "gasping" with her inhaled breaths. she is a white broad-breasted turkey, about 3 months old. this morning she is moving very slow, staying kind of separate from the...

has anyone tried to make a sewing machine cover out of the chicken feed bags? i've got a few bags and was thinking of following the grocery tote instructions to make it. if someone has already done it, any hints?

our ducks have a 10x20 run with a 10x5 roofed/enclosed area for the night with a doghouse for nesting. during the day, we open the run so they can explore the pasture that sits alongside our woods/swampy area. with all the rain we've had, we still have green grass, mud and puddling water so the...