Something to keep in mind if I ever have a place and get chickens, they’ll have a kiddie pool to cool off in. But no swimming pool because I’d hate for them to fowl up the water.
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@meggie If I were to come into a wad of money I’d have a country house and some pretty chickens (for eggs) and spoil the hell out of them. I watched a You Tube video, a woman has chickens and she feeds them organic foods. It was wintertime and she was shoveling deep snow so they could get out of their shed and walk around in the daytime. Put pine shavings down for litter and would sweep it up so she could replace it with clean litter. Was filling up a lot of water feeders for them. Gave them chicken food (organic) and was hand-feeding the peacocks almonds. Then she poured out dishes of meal worms to snack on and had a bail of millet hay for them to pick the seeds off. She picked up the eggs they laid and held them out to show them and thanked them for the eggs, (I’ve done that too). She let them out on the shoveled pathway and they started “singing” and pecking around on the small spots of bare grass. She was also hand-feeding them something too.
@cherokeepatti when i was a tiny girl i had nobody but chickens that i wheeled around in a pram. I loved them and they'd lay eggs in the pram for me. The only thing about chickens is when they get ill, you have to deal with it, which can be sad. No one pays vet fees for chickens.
@meggie I had Rhode Island Red chickens and they are one of the best laying hens. I learned how to kill parasite worms by giving them cayenne peppers that I grew & dried & crushed up. Made a huge pan of gravy and added chicken scratch and the crushed peppers. They were starving due to the parasites and ate every bite of it They eliminated the parasites the very next day. I saw some anti-parasite medicine for chickens at the rural store near where I lived and read the back of the package. It said to throw the eggs away for 2 weeks after giving them the medicine. It’s that toxic. But with cayenne peppers it’s not toxic to them and they don’t get burnt on them like humans and mammals do. Also can put some apple cider vinegar in their water. Helps to grow muscles and keep them healthy too. And feed them veggie and fruit scraps.
They don’t sell antibiotics for chickens over the counter now but I believe colloidal silver would work pretty well for a lot of things. I give it to my parakeets, a tiny bit in their water and they get well.
@cherokeepatti i remember my grandmother making a mix of boiled rice water and sherry to give them when they were egg-bound. If that didn't work the Yogoslavians next door came around and chopped their heads off. It was very upsetting, but it put the chicken out of it's misery.
