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Hello all - I'm wanting to hear from those of you who have personal experience feeding chickens alfalfa. It seems like it would be a cost effective way to get them a protein source and one that would entertain them for a long time. I am hoping to try it with my chickens and I'm thinking a...

I understand there is a lot disagreement about this topic so please keep it friendly. I'm not looking for advice on the best way to mix my own feed or anything like that. I've done a lot of research and am taking it slow and careful. I mostly am interested in feedback on noticable effects from...

I've never had this breed before so I don't know much about them but according to Dr. Google, they typically lay around 6 months old. Well the gal I bought her from back in September said she had just reached 6 months. So now she'd be roughly 9 months and still no eggs. I know we are in middle...

Hello - i've got a few questions for those that hand mix your own feed. 1. Did you see a difference in egg production or chicken health when you switched to mixing your own feed? 2. Do you think it is absolutely necessary to have a nutri-balancer added if they are already getting quality...

Good afternoon - My goal in 2024 is to get started on breeding and selling some chicks/hatching eggs. I understand that geographics play a part in pricing (I live in a very rural area and chicks sell out at the local feed store in a matter of hours) but I am hoping you all can give me some...

If I have a cream legbar roo and a female olive egger, what egg color will they produce? Or a cream legbar with welsummer?

Anyone have pictures of their winterized coop? My gals coop has the ability to be fully enclosed (no windows, holes, etc) if I close the door but it is only made out of thin OSB wood siding. I put extra bedding in it and in 3 years I've never lost a chicken due to the cold, but they LOOK cold...

I live in very northern Washington state, almost to Canada. The temps here in winter get to be at LEAST 10 degrees F, but often -20F. Will this kill off my red mite issue? A little back story. I've had chickens for 3 years now (was a total newbie). Always been in the same coop. I keep the coop...

I am wondering if anyone has specifically preserved eggs by submerging them completely in olive oil? I know the mineral oil trick of rubbing them down with mineral oil but I don't want to use mineral oil for my own personal reasons, and I would rather use food grade oil any way. It seems to me...

This is my first time having pullets that have started laying in September. I'm curious if they usually lay through winter since they just started? I live in very northern US (almost to Canada) where it gets really cold at night in winter (-20 F) . My last set of chicks I GOT in September as...

I just purchased 100 pounds of organic chicken feed on sale and chickens don't like the pellets. :duc I've tried many times to switch them to pellets because i think they are neater, no powder and are sometimes cheaper. They will eat them if i soak them first but that isn't always possible, such...

My EE hen who I hatched myself laid her first egg today and it was brown. I am so disappointed!! The roo was an EE out of a blur shell and mama hen a green egg layer. So how did this happen? I was hoping for blue but would have been happy with green.

I previously posted about this pullet I bought from Meyers because it is supposed to be olive egger and it wasn't looking that way to me. It is mostly black with a little brown speckles. Someone pointed out that it could be BCM mix to make it an olive egger. Well now it has developed a floof on...

I ordered chicks from Meyers and one of them I'm not sure is the right breed. It is supposed to be an olive egger and I know they can be almost any color, but this little chick is black with red tips on feathers and slightly hairy feet. Thoughts? 5 weeks old.

This sweet thing is 9 weeks old and should have the blue egg gene. Praying for a pullet. What do you think?

What would cause a rooster to single out a hen and be aggressive/chase her? She has been a part of the flock for a year and never had this issue. She has a totally bald and bloody back of her head. I thought at first he was just being too rough when mating but none of my other hens have this...

Is it possible to get a cross that looks like a speckled susex? It is a little early to tell, but my 2 week old chick is looking very speckled on her new adult feathers. She is out of a EE roo and an australorp/americauna cross (all black mama). I Google pics of speckled sussex chicks and mine...

Just curious what you all do for chicken keeping, and feel free to comment on HOW MANY chickens you have. Thanks :)

I know Australorps are supposed to be really reliable egg layers and I've got several who are, but this gal is just taking forever!! She was hatched in May of 2022 and isn't laying! ALL my other chickens started laying early this year - in January. I even have chicks from July 2022 that started...

I know it is hard to say, but this chick hatched out from our EE roo and a mutt hen (all black) who lays green eggs. Last time I had a chick that looked like this, they were Rhode island reds but this little one definitely isn't! Also don't know the gender but I know that's pretty impossible...