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I use the granular, the powder is very fine, seems like it could be dusty. I have seen my hens eat some, but it is is not toxic. I guess I would rather chicks not eat it...I think I would try using a little, perhaps with your normal bedding. Our feed store lines the chick bins with burlap. I...

I use sweet PDZ on the poop boards. It is very dirty in there, and no ammonia smell. Love the stuff, and yes, I'll get out there soon to clean.

Gem, if you planted hard neck garlic, they shoot up a flower stalk that circles around. After it makes the circle, you can cut it off and us it as a tasty bit in sauce or other dishes. Then when the foliage wilts down, you can dig your garlic. Loved Weird Al! Rancher, I have a demented...

I have the premier1 poultry net, and just bought another strand and a gate. I have a set up that uses a battery, so I bought an extra one. One can be charging, the other in use. Haven't set up the new parts yet, but can't wait to just walk through the gate! The chickens get zapped, but learn to...

If you see streaks of red or white going up your leg, get to a real doctor quick. The bruising is prob normal, the blood has to go somewhere. Warm Epsom salts soaks? White socks, any other favorite cleaning thing. Chicken folk have access to powerful dirt! So we probably have good immunities...

Oh plantain is a wonderful plant. An Onondaga friend told me to put it mushed up on stings or bites. Since I have read that it is good like that and also can be eaten like in salad it is very nutritious, and has healing properties. And most people want it out of their lawn. But, personally, with...

Welcome, Koopmaster. Gramma, I feel for you. I am on injured reserve myself. Fell on my chest a week and a half ago. Lots of bruised ribs, marginally better than breaking them, but can't do much. Lots of ibuprofen! At first just carrying feed buckets was all I could do. Oh well, it will all be...

Sorry to hear about your girls, Gramma. It's never easy to have them go.

I had wild boar stew when I was in Sienna. It was delicious. But it is a regional specialty, I would not know how to cook it!

Thank you, Purpletie! That looks really nice, neat, weatherproof, and so square and straight! Lots of things the retirement home is not. I will take a picture of it tomorrow so you can see how amaturish my building skills are. We put it on its wagon base with wheels, and I moved Earl and Mama...

Purple tie, could you share info and pics of the plastic coop? I am trying to make some small coops to separate the miserable roosters, and find that my scavenging ways that seem so cool and cheap are the source of building problems larger than I can overcome. In reality, this coop building...

So very sorry about your hens, Luv.

Yesterday was the day of the Rooster Wars. Nice warm day, snow receding. I foolishly let everyone free range, including Earl and Mama who had been in sick bay. Junior had taken it into his head that he was in charge, and an epic fight ensued. Junior won. Earl was hiding in the coop. So Rascal...

Except that you had called ahead and been told your chicks had all hatched and come get them. They could have told you that 1/3 of them had not hatched, but you could get another of each of the other breeds.

Rancher, I think it's not the temperature but the days are getting a bit longer. Easter egg hunts came from folks looking for eggs in strange places in the Spring...end of winter...

I did have dealings with AJ Domani, right outside of Seneca Falls, and it cost kind of a lot, I had called ahead because I really wanted Buff Orpington. The adorable chicks I was given were no way no how BO, they were some kind of sexlink. I drove really far. They also had an obnoxious email...

Sweet pea, I would take all the soggy stuff out tomorrow. It isn't supposed to be too cold tonight, but my experience is that if you try to put dry onto wet, you will have lots of moist. And here at least tomorrow night will be very cold. Put it in the garden or compost...

Yes, well, even with insulation, apparently it got quite cold in the coop. Earl was in because the girls had his comb bleeding, but he didn't crow until 7, so that was quite considerate. I just gave him a closer exam to be sure he could go back out. Nope. He has some blisters forming on his...

My coop was built to be what I thought we needed in the beginning. It is insulated, has Marvin Windows and rectangular vents on each gable end, which are North and South. It is very nicely built because my husband is a trim carpenter and had the idea we might sometime in the future have no...

If the chickens are wimpy cause they don't want to go out, I'm with them! I went to get gas, chicken feed and return books to the library...forgot that was closed. And I was grumpy and vowed not to go out again. Yesterday was much better than today with this wind and blowing snow, it's cruel...