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Sounds good. I fill a 100 gallon water tank with a permethrin solution for chickens. Then I dip each chicken in it. I make it a bit stronger for my goats, sheep, etc, then for dogs. Cats cannot be dipped. And I don't dip my McNab. Then I take the rest and use it to spray the cleaned out...

I did not check the livers of the dead ones. They were dead before I was aware of the disease. So, yes, it's entirely possible that it was something else.

Anyone have experience with Black Head (Histomoniasis casued by the protozoa Histomonas meleagridis)? I put my 7 turkey chicks in with my 50 meat chicks and swiftly lost all but two turkey. A friend said, "It's black head. Cant keep young turkeys and chickens together. It wont affect the...

Hi! I'm late to reply, but in the event anyone else is on here looking for solutions...When we used to live in town, a few weeks or months after our then dog died, raccoons started plaguing our coop. Every night they came. It was like a horror show. My husband who had to leave for work at 4am...

Well below freezing. Teens and 20s w/o windchill factored in. Days are sometimes shockingly warm.

Mine is akin to 3KillerBs comment. We've lost 3 meat birds this month from them being at the bottom of the scrum/dogpile at night. We have one heat lamp and well below freezing temps so all of the birds are obviously huddling for warmth, especially the little ones. The water is not freezing in...

I’ve heard it takes one generation to lose the knowledge of how to successfully run a farm. amd it takes 3 generations to regain it. It’s a lot...good thing we're getting started! Our grand kids will thank us!

Here’s Here’s another: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338409541_Efficacy_of_Diatomaceous_Earth_on_Ascaridia_galli_Blood_Parameters_And_on_Ectoparasites_In_Chicken Both studies support DE as effective, therefore not a myth. I’m a fan of empirical data, so if you find more studies...

I foun I found one, so far which seems to tacitly support the use of DE for some breeds... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21673156/

Do you by chance have a link to a study on the efficacy of diatomaceous earth, or lack there of? Someone must’ve done a study...

I have 7 extra poultry safe large guardian dogs, roughly a year old, if anyone is suffering predatory issues...lol...actually any dog will keep the most common predators from visiting, ie., raccoons & skunks.

I butcher at 10-12 weeks ideally. I’ve kept others well over a year, because I wanted to see how long they would live. I’ve never had the issues others complain about.

btw, broilers don’t tend to need a roost.

For meat buy the cornish cross or broasters from the farm supply store. Feed them high protein chick feed, non medicated. Leave them free access to feed and water. In 6-8 weeks, butcher and put in fridge. If you want your chickens mobile, rather than sitting in their own fecal matter, feed them...

I tried butchering a dual purpose chicken...it had no decent meat to speak of. We literally had nothing available to eat from it. Years later I got a good deal on 50 broiler chicks. With 50 chickens to butcher we didn’t have a lot of time for over thinking the situation. We were in it and it...

My chickens eat worms. I encourage it. I’ve never seen worms in their poop and I don’t deworm them. I also haven’t fed them in at least a month. They forage for themselves. The other day they were in the tall grass pecking at seed heads on grasses. My band of merry chickens are a variety of...

Oh my gosh! Thank you for the great article! I just bought 9 Easter Eggers thinking that I ordered Ameraucanas. As I was looking at the price chart I said, "Oh, that's funny. It's misspelled. These are Ameraucanas not 'Americanas'". Ha! Boy was I wrong! Don't get me wrong. I love that...

So that chick did start peeping. Turns out he was in an environment that was too dry. Hence the non peeping.....It was not a genetic trait, unfortunately.

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😋 Yum! I'd like to find or to breed a chicken that is big, tasty and tender but is capable of reproducing true to type...as far as meat quality, quantity and viability goes....It seems like we settle for something less in a small farm/homestead bird.