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Hello friends! After almost a year of no health issues, our sweet Munchie just came up with a ballooned crop out of nowhere! Pretty sure after researching it is PC. Have you ever made a chicken vomit? It’s not fun! So I have questions... 1). Anyone used a crop bra? 2). If no crop bra...

I cut the ends of an unshucked corn cobb & then I peel a few outer layers. Throw that in the freezer & its a good treat to cool them off. They can pick a cobb clean. If you don’t have access to fresh corn, I have used those half cobbs u get in the freezer section with success. The frozen...

I take fresh corn & pull a few layers of husk off & throw in a freezer bag. Chuck it in the run frozen solid & they LOVE it. The cob is picked clean! The frozen fruit suggestion is great as well. I would buy a mix tho until u figure out who will eat what. Mine love fresh blueberries but...

Great article! It reminded me of some chickens my granny had that always slept in her pear tree. Your ladies are adorable 😊

Thanks for the tip! You are right about change. We had to lay loads of straw down in the run to mitigate the mud from the 8in of rain in the last week They refused to come out for most of the day. 😂

We got a small bag of pellet flock raiser & did a test run just to see what they thought....I got scared they were sick because they usually pig out at breakfast. They didn’t eat hardly any. My hubbs brought the spare feeder with their usual crumbles & they about took his hand off trying to...

They are 18wks. I was thinking the same about waste as well.

Great article. Chicken keepers are really a creative bunch!

Fermented feed? Tell me more (please😊)

If you are a clean freak make sure you build it with ways that make it easy to clean. We painted the inside of the coop as well. I wish we had put linoleum not only on the floors but also the walls. Use hardware cloth & not chicken wire if your area is prone to predators. It will save you...

My ladies are approaching that age where they will start laying. Very exciting! I’ve been feeding Purina Starter Medicated crumbles. Should I switch to pellets? We have 3 Delewares. Thanks!

We currently have Punchy, Munchy, & Nugget. When I was little my mom watched Guiding Light (soap opera). We got an new rooster & I got to name it. I decided “she” would be named Reva.

That is something I kicked myself for after we finished our coop! The first time we cleaned it out I was like we should have covered the whole inside with linoleum😅. It will definitely be part of next build!

The “downstairs” to my coop is dirt. I rake it once a week. I do sprinkle DE after I rake as well. I only have 3 ladies so maybe that’s why it works so well for us...It was beautiful green grass for about 2 weeks when we first set up😂.

I’ve only raised 3 chicks so far but we used pine shavings after about 3 days of paper towel. I also changed it everyday. It was only like $6 for a big bag of it at the feed store. Went thru just one & 1/2 bags thru the six weeks we had them inside. Just make sure it’s the good shavings & not...