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so i keep seeing my young pullets snacking on layer pellets that i have out for the older girls. the young girls have their own feeder full of grower and they eat it but they still snack on the layer. is this okay? i know the logical thing to do is to take out the layer and feed them all grower...

so i have 10 pullets that are about 6 months old and a week or two ago i added 2 new pullets that are about 11 weeks now. so i have been integrating them and its been going okay. the last two days the little ones have been going to roost on the big girl roost. they have been sleeping by a ee...

one of my leghorns had a large bulge on her toe that was a little soft and filled with pus. so i thought it is bumble foot but am not sure. ether way i knew i should drain it so i kinda fallowed what to do with a bumblefoot and cleaned the foot up well and sterilized everything and made a small...

is it okay to feed chickens snails and slugs? i think i read it was not good for them but i am not sure. we have tons of snails here and if its okay i would like to feed the girls some. i would break them open for them

i have 10 chickens (4 bls, 4 leghorns and 2 ee) and they have 8 feet of roost space and yet they feel they should only use 4 feet of it and they all pant like crazy because it is so hot. i can see them sleeping so close when its cold out but its hot. so today i spaced them out a little and...

so i have been buying a scratch mix that has corn, milo and oats but about 70% is corn and my girls are not eating the corn so i have decided to make my own mix. so for starts i am thinking BOSS, milo, oats and maybe wheat. so in your opinion what would you add to this mix or take away? thanks...

hey all. my girls were hatched on oct 19th 2010. i have easter eggers, black stars and leghorns. well we have had some bloody eggs and my dad said that means we have a roo. is this true? god i hope its not because i love my girls so much! if we do have a roo i am sure it is a leghorn, 3 out of...

so on saturday i got 10 17 week old pullets. since then they have gone through about 20 lbs of 20% lay crumbles and i would guess 10 lbs of scratch they have not had to many table scraps and do not come out of the coop yet but wow i had no idea they would eat so much! i have 4 black stars, 4...

sorry i have to bring this up but i need a little advice on heating the coop. i am bringing home 10 chickens at the end of the month. they are about 4 months old and the guy i am buying them from keeps a heat lamp in the coop. i did not plan on heating the coop but i have to now. i am in usda...

so how much shade for a chicken is too much shade? where i am building my coop has a fair amount of shade, it still gets a few good hours of sun but not as much as other parts of my yard. i guess this could be good because it will keep it cool in the hot summer but i worry they will not lay...

so i will be bringing 10 full size hens home in march (leghorns, bsl and ee). they will not be able to free range much i will give them table scraps and treats tho. i will be feeding 20% layer crumbles. so i know this will be hard to guess but about how much feed will i go through in a month? i...

hi peeps. so i was planing on doing a roof on my run that i will be building but seeing how i am a tall guy it would have to be at least 7 feet tall and i am not sure how that would look. i am now thinking if i just build a tall enough fence the chickens will not be able to fly out and plus...

so i am planing to build a walk in coop that will be 6x8 and 7 feet tall. it will have nest boxes in the back but they will not stick out. i will have two perches on each side of the door that will go back to the nest boxes. i want to keep 10 full size chickens in it. would this be okay? the...

i will be geting chickens in the spring and have been pricing chicken stuff and found a local company that makes wood pellets for animal bedding. i called and they said they do not use ceder in it. i think it would be a lot cheaper to get the pellets because i can get a ton of them for about...

hi guys. i am designing my coop at the moment and would like to have the roll away nest boxes, i would like the kind where the egg rolls into the back end. i know i have seen pictures on here before and how to make them but i can't find the threads now any help you can give me on how to build...

hi guys. i am new here. i don't have chickens yet but plan on geting 5 rir's in the spring (well thats if i can find some that are around egg laying age because i don't like the idea of raising chicks lol. i have been wanting chickens for years but now my mom who i still live at home with likes...