Good choice on the echinacea. Yes, yarrow is safe for poultry of all sorts (and cows, echidnas, platypuses and giraffes). One of my drakes was bleeding internally (with blood coming out of his nares) once and I harvested him some wild yarrow leaves, put it in his food and after 15 minutes the...
Lol I live in Canada and it was -40*C last year and I brought Noodle (the frizzle) the Seramas, silkies and older girls indoors since the wind made it -50*C. The video is called How to Grow GRASS in your Chicken yard, it was posted 4 weeks ago :D
No, most of them were adults when I got them. I did raise the Ayams, EEs' and some silkies but the rest I bought as pullets and adults and they're all really nice to each other. They are all so cute!!!
#1 Yes, I have Silkies, Australorps, Easter Eggers, Frizzles, Bantam Polish, Ayam Cemani, Serama and more all together lol! They all love each other and I've never worried about them hurting one another.
#2 I don't know.
#3 It's your decision, everyone is different.
#4 I think they're easier to...
I'm not sure. But I do like to give them some calcium rich weeds though such as, pigweed (aka wild spinach, fathen) dried stinging nettle, dandelion, yarrow and of course plantain.
Not only are they all rich in other nutrients such as Vitamins A,B (all of them),C,K and more but they also have...