by McMurray Staff | Jun 8, 2011 | Raising Chickens
[This series is a diary of our experience raising chickens for our home flock. To see all articles in this series, please visit Home Flock Series.] Our chickens are about 5 weeks old now. They are growing and developing well in the chicken tractor. The chicken...
by McMurray Staff | Jun 4, 2011 | Raising Chickens
Take our poll on Facebook and find out how many chickens people have in their flocks. The poll asks how many chickens are in your flock and shows the results of how others have answered the question. To participate and view the results, click the link below Flock...
by McMurray Staff | Jun 3, 2011 | Baby Chicks, Raising Chickens
[scg_html_flock_integration_series] Disease and Parasites When you introduce new chickens to your flock, you run the risk of also introducing new diseases or parasites to your flock. If you take your chickens to poultry shows, then you run that same risk when you...
by McMurray Staff | May 31, 2011 | Chickens
We were doing the chores late last night. We have two calves that we are bottle feeding until they attach fully to the nurse cow. After the bottle feeding we stopped by to get the eggs. There were hens nesting in each of the 4 egg nests. Continuing our conversation on...
by McMurray Staff | May 26, 2011 | Raising Chickens
[scg_html_flock_integration_series] If you’ve ever raised chicks then later added them to an existing flock of mature chickens, then you know that it is often an unpleasant experience. The older chickens peck the newcomers hard. They chase them, and they try to...
