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Great info & ideas! If I had a larger growing space… well I have plenty of space but our soil is not naturally great for gardening, and we have tons of tree roots (and where there’s not roots, crab grass), so it’s difficult to actually start a garden in the ground here. We had to build raised...

I would really love for her to be the mamma in our little flock (8 hens). She doesn’t take any hoo-ha from anyone, including Polko. She’d be a great, protective mamma, me thinks. 🥰

I have the strangest rooster behavior going on right now. My man Polko (turned 1yr old in February, Moss Egger roo), he’s been placing his butt up against a wall, or in a corner & making these silly, but sweet screeching & clucking sounds. He’s doing it mostly around our matriarch hen (BCM). And...

I would always get organic pasture raised eggs when we didn’t have our own chickens. A random organic/pasture raised egg from Grocery Outlet in CA had the deepest orange egg yolks! Simply called “heirloom farms” (I think)… something with heirloom & they were all different shades of color (even...

I have been feeding my chickens dried calendula petals for over two months. I haven’t noticed a difference in yolk color, but I’d be curious if anything comes from it for you! Could be that fresh petals vs dried petals make the difference.

I’m in the third month of experimenting with calendula (marigold) petals in my chicken scratch. I have not noticed a difference in yolk color. I was happy to do it because calendula petals have so many other health benefits. Plus we got the organic ones, so we can even make tea for ourselves...

I feed my flock a corn-free feed in the summer, just because we live in Florida and corn is high in carbs. It can make them hotter in the summer than without it. I’ve never noticed white yolks without the corn.

I was worried about the same thing today. I have a rooster that will be 1 year old on February 21st. I had never seen his comb with purple tips before. He’s only ever had bright beautiful red comb & waddle. So it was out of the ordinary for him. Glad to hear it’s not unusual. But I still feel...

I saw you treat the flock for 3 days. 1/4 tsp ACS per gallon of water in only plastic waterers. (No metal) I’m curious about this as well. I’ve heard from different posts that it’s mostly an issue if you’re allergic to what you’re treating your chickens with, because it will pass through into...

I know this is an older post, but for others needing this info… I’ve had canker in a hen that really stunk. I suspect the canker was effecting her crop, because she would burp when I would give her the metronidazole with water & massage her crop. It totally stunk. It was like there was a canker...

I ended up mixing fenbendozole & metronidazole toward the end of her treatment period (last 2 out of 9 days), because she was getting better, then not so well after I was giving her just the two metronidazole products for a few days. So I figured I’d go back to what seemed to help, along with...

Things are going well now with Lucy!! She’s been taking dust baths when I let her outside before the rest of the chickens. She’s eating quite a lot. Not enough regular food yet, not enough to let her out into the coop yet. I let her out like I have in the last three days, for her to eat weeds &...

Miss Lucy (my first & most prolific egg layer, before she got sick), and my 15 yr old kitty, Bee. Bee will be 16 yrs old in March.

Good progress a couple days ago. Got the most plaque I’ve ever been able to get. When you’re doing this for the first time, be easy on yourself! It’s really hard to do, until you get the hang of it. Today, Lucy had a field trip out of her cage in the house, into the yard (without the other...

Such a roller-coaster. Lucy is back to super low energy & not eating or drinking. Only thing she would eat today was some apple, which I thought might be good to get some of that acid on the slimy stuff & also get some calories in her. I put probiotics on the apple, as well as some hydrolyzed...

Thank you very much for this info. Due to this thread, and this reply in particular, my Lucy is back to eating & drinking again all by herself, for the first time in days! I scraped the plaque out of her mouth. (Prob will need to do it again) Found metronidazole at a local tropical fish shop a...

I didn’t find a pure metronidazole product at the tropical fish store. I found two that had metronidazole, but with another ingredients with it (praziquantel in one & sodium chloride in the other), and both are recommended for use against canker as well. 👍🏻 I've been switching between the two...

I found some long tong tweezers in my husbands’ tools! It worked beautifully. Def some blood while removing the plaque, but not a ton. We worked on her twice. Pulled out a ton of plaque. Her comb regained the red color rather than purple on the tips. She could breathe out of her nose again...

What Al said will work. Bowls of water or oil under the legs of whatever you elevate your bin with. Ant moats. For me, once my bin really started going, the ants just stopped coming. I didn’t do anything special. I bought some BSF larvae to kick start my bin & boost the BSF population though...

My gal Lucy has the same thing, from a peacock that was coming into their run when they were foraging. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Where did you get the acidified copper sulfate. It’s hard to know which one is okay for chickens on Amazon. Any suggestion from anyone? Called Tractor supply & our local hardware/feed...