If by probiotics you mean feeding something like yogurt or kefir with live cultures, then I think it's a great idea. I make kefir from my goat milk and sometimes have extra kefir grains, which I feed to the chickens. They don't get that often enough for me to tell if it makes much...
Thank you so much for the advice, everybody! That's such a cute story about the cats and chickens staring at each other through a window. Your comments totally helped me visualize what I'm going to do. As for the dogs: my bitch (I love calling her that) has spent a couple weeks...
I write about this a lot. Nothing fills me with awe and fear like the ocean. It’s dark and deep and water always inspires me to write. We sat outside a little coffee shop along the river that leads to the ocean, and I thought how wonderful it is to live here. I know there are...
You can see a few live near the dead. 30 were left alive, and they would have been quickly killed if I hadn’t moved them to a safer location. One mink did all the killing. He only slit their throats, one after another. To the mink’s credit, he did return later to eat the ...
I don’t know much more than that about the birds, and I have never noticed them nesting near us before. But there are two adults tending the nest, so I’m assuming it’s mommy and daddy. They don’t really mind me, the dog, or the chickens in close proximity, but when a cat ...
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and I wonder where my reason for living will come from in the day yet before me. It’s not a down place, it’s just a medium place. It’s where I live most of the time, actually. The to-do list always pulls me forward, but it’s certainly not something which gives my life ...
Most training takes place in the same open pasture that both parents live in, with them having full access to me and the baby at all times. This allows for trust to be built very early on, as the calf sees their parents be completely okay with me handling them. I have handled three ...
"Will it kill me?" Give your chickens time to get used to new high protein foods. For a wider selection of high protein treats, try these! Want to learn more about food for chickens? Click any of the pics! Sources. A lot of "facts" you'll find on the internet are often people'...
“Hard molts” happen when a chicken loses a lot of feathers at once but new ones take a long time to grow back, resulting in the poor thing being bald for the time being. Some chickens going through hard molts may look like they’re ready for the oven (and it’s kind of alarming...