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medicated chick starter

How To Care For Your Baby Chicks Weeks 7-16 [Podcast]

March 12, 2018 by Maat

How To Care For Your Baby Chicks Weeks 7-16 [Podcast]

Last week we tackled your backyard chicken’s first 6 weeks, and in this episode we take on weeks 7-16!   (Want to listen to last week’s episode first? Click here!)   Weeks 7-16 are a little bit different then weeks 1-6 (especially weeks 11-16!) so we break down how you should care for your chicks each… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: apple cider vinegar, chick starter, Chickens, chicks, eggs, grower feed, hens, medicated chick starter, pullets, roosters

Medicated Vs. Non-Medicated Chick Starter, Cleaning Incubator Eggs, Chicken Breeds That Don’t Get Along, Good Ages To Butcher Roosters, & What To Do With Excess Roosters [Podcast]

April 6, 2016 by Maat

Medicated Vs. Non-Medicated Chick Starter, Cleaning Incubator Eggs, Chicken Breeds That Don’t Get Along, Good Ages To Butcher Roosters, & What To Do With Excess Roosters [Podcast]

There’s a lot of funky information out there about medicated chick starter vs. non-medicated chick starter – so that’s the main topic of today’s podcast!   Essentially, both feeds are the same, with one significant difference.    If you’re not sure which is for you, then be sure to listen!   But naturally, it’s not… Read Full Article

Filed Under: Chickens, Podcast Tagged With: Chickens, medicated chick starter, roosters

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  • I have a love /hate relationship with this tiny rooster. He's all of 3 inches high but loves to attack my feet. I seriously have no idea why.
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He's a rescue and I'm pretty sure the reason I got him is because, to someone not experienced with chickens, he can be scary.
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But I wear boots in my coop all the time. So, he's essentially a mosquito. It's pretty cute.
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Sometimes he wanders off and I have to catch him. He doesn't like that, and protests loudly. But he doesn't attack me. He just squaks loudly.
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But when I have a treat? He's my best friend. What a character!
  • Well we've been battling an ice storm for the past couple days (which is why you didn't hear from me yesterday). Unfortunately, on Saturday, the wind blew the door to my coop shut, so the fluffy butts had to deal with the ice and wind.
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It was so icy here that several telephone poles bent, and the electric wires were nearly on the ground (not on our farm, on a main road).
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About half my flock was wet and cold and shivering. So, everyone went into dog crates and into the cabin, where I could run a heater safely.
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The worst of the lot - my 2 cochin bantam hens - also got their feathers blown dry.
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I don't regularly blow dry my flock, but these 2 hens LOVED it! They just sat there while the hair dryer was on low heat, and enjoyed hanging out with me.
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I think they liked the warmth - they were pretty cold after all! They got plenty of WormBGone (which has warming herbs in it) and their layer feed that we blend ourselves, so they were happy!
  • I'm happy to tell you that reader Diane reports her rooster, Victor, is doing much better after an episode of mysterious blindness. .
Diane emailed me a week ago to ask advice to help Victor out. He suddenly went blind, without much explanation.
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There's a lot of reasons why any animal can go blind temporarily, and Diane did the best thing, which is consult a veterinarian. .
I'm glad to hear Victor's sight has returned, and he's back with his lovely girlfriends in their coop, just in time for Valentine's Day! ❤
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I'll be sending Victor and his girlfriends some BEE A Happy Hen to celebrate!
  • Now that the days are getting longer, it looks like I need to remove even more young roosters from the main coop. There were 3 that didn't cause any trouble over winter (very pretty ones, too), but now that spring is clearly on everyone's mind, they're bothering the hens too much.
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Most of these roosters are ones I bred - Easter Egger mixes that have pea combs and beards. They're very pretty!
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In the tornado last week, one of my temporary coops lost its life, so I'll probably use pieces of that to complete a new coop for these roosters, and give each one a couple ladies.
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I have a feeling by the end of this year, we'll be over run with lovely, bearded chickens. These guys do carry the blue egg laying gene - one's mother was Mama who laid olive colored eggs and the other's mother was Hawk who laid blue eggs).
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If paired with hens who carry the gene, their offspring might lay colored eggs as well.
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We're still getting green eggs from someone (I still haven't figured out who), and I think when the remainder of the roosters leave the coop, it'll prompt my other hens to start laying.
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And this year, I'm having Black Copper Marans hens sent to me, so pretty soon, we should have very colorful egg baskets every morning!
  • Well, we finally had a sunny day. It took nearly 2 weeks, but it finally happened!
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Now, we wait for the flood waters to recede. Last year, the township graded the road we live on, which used to get flooded whenever the rains were bad enough (like in the last 2 weeks).
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Well, they didn't bother to install any sort of drainage system, so one of my fields is completely bogged down under 18-24 inches of water.
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Yes, they'be been notified, and no, I'm not pleased. It essentially trashes 1/3rd of the usable land on our farm. I'm letting my husband handle this one (for now), because he's nicer than I am about these matters.
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Around here, there's seriously days when I wish I stocked herbs stronger than calendula, lol!
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I WAS considering putting a coop in that back pasture (which has my tiny home in it), but for now, I need to wait until they sort out how to prevent the field from getting soaked.

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