UCP Episode 011: Medicated Chick Feed or Not – What Is Best For Your Baby Birds?

Laura Haggarty & Family of Pathfinders Farm

Laura Haggarty & Family of Pathfinders Farm

Many people take up chicken keeping for the particular purpose of having more control

Laura Haggarty, Pathfinders Farm's Buckeye Chickens

Laura Haggarty, Pathfinders Farm’s Buckeye Chickens

over this food source of eggs (and sometimes meat) in a direct response to the world of large agribusiness.  These individuals want hormone and antibiotic free meats and try to raise their birds as naturally as possible.  This raises the question, can you raise healthy, natural birds and eggs if you start the hens with medicated chick feed?  Laura Haggarty of Pathfinders Farm joins the Urban Chicken Podcast today to discuss this very issue.

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UCP Episode 003: Picking Winter Hardy Spring Chicks

Spring Chicken, black chick

Spring Chick by Gina Pina

All of the feed stores are full of peeping chicks – springtime is officially here.  Despite the sign over the bin housing all of these terribly cute puffballs, which reads, “Do NOT handle the chicks!” –  you find yourself reaching in to caress and hold whichever chick you can easily pick up.  You really want to hold this cheeping ball of down up against your cheek, but don’t dare risk it because you might get caught by a clerk.  You can barely contain the growing urge to buy a couple chicks — you are convincing yourself that you need baby chicks and you want to buy some right now. Continue reading
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