Howdy, y'all. I've got a batch of meat birds this year, and I ordered my feed from New Country Organics. Unfortunately, I undercalculated the amount I need, and I have too little, and it's too expensive to order more. My question is, would it work to feed the chickens a couple bags of regular...
Hello. I have a Deathlayer hen that has bumblefoot on both her feet. The pads are swollen, and while the left foot appears to stay the same, the right foot has swollen even more since I started treating it four days ago. I have her on a ten-minute Epsom salt and Chlorhexidine soak every day...
So I got a silver deathlayer chick at 3 weeks of age about 2 weeks ago. When I bought the chick, its head was brown, but recently it's been growing silver feathers and is almost entirely silver now. Is this just how it works, or is it a possible mix?
So I'm going to start raising meat birds in a few years, and have decided on Chanteclers. Whenever I search up how much meat birds eat, it gives me the amount for commercial birds that will be slaughtered, and when I search for dual purpose, it gives the ingredients that are needed in the feed...
So I came home from vacation to find my hen was laying on eggs close to three weeks ago. I had reason to assume that she started lying on them that day, since our neighbor was collecting the eggs when feeding chickens. I was gone most of today, which is the 19th incubation day, and came back...