Cluckers and Quackers Roost

05/25/2024

Herbs to add to chicken feed
Lavender
Lavender is a flowering plant that belongs to the mint family. It can help relieve stress, which is beneficial for sitting and laying hens. Lavender is also a natural insect repellent and will make your chicken run or coop smell lovely.

Can chickens eat mint leaves?
Mint
Delicious and nutritious, mint leaves are packed with vitamins A, vitamin B complex, and vitamin C, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron, manganese, and potassium.

Mint helps deter rodents and bugs, whilst also having a calming effect for laying hens.

Is oregano good for chickens?
Oregano
Oregano has natural antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties, containing calcium, dietary fibre, manganese, iron, vitamin K and vitamin E. It strengthens the flock's immune system and helps guard against common poultry illnesses such as salmonella, coccidiosis, avian flu and e-coli.

Herbs for chickens respiratory
Rosemary
This aromatic herb is commonly used in remedies to help with digestive issues and, because it contains antioxidants, anti-inflammatories and anti-carcinogenic properties, it can also help boost their immune system.

Sage
Sage is another wonderful herb to offer your chickens, with several health benefits. It’s said to help combat salmonella and acts as an antioxidant.

Thyme
Thyme is a natural insect repellent, which will keep pests out of your coop and away from your flock. It’s also packed with vitamin C and is a good source of copper, fibre, iron, manganese and vitamin A.

03/24/2024

Cleaned all the brooders out yesterday and moved the 3 week olds to the big brooder. And got the two smaller brooders ready for the approximately 4 dozen due to hatch next Wednesday.

03/13/2024

03/13/2024

The Salmon Favorelles! We have 2 roosters and 4 hens currently with plans to add more hens this year. Currently we also have 4 other hens with this group - a Barred Black Orpington, an Australorp cross, an Isa Brown, and an Easter Egger. If you like docile easy going chickens the SF are the breed for you!

03/13/2024

First generation Easter Eggers! Their parent birds were a combination of Americana, Prairie Blue Bells, Wyandotte, Sapphire Gems, Easter Eggers, and Leghorns. The plan is to add in Ameraucana, Marans, and possibly Welsummer this year also. This will hopefully bring in more colors to the flock.

03/13/2024

Our Bantam Cochin / Silkie trio. Hops is the roo, and the girls are Wheat and Barley.

03/12/2024

Hello all! At this time we have some hatching eggs available. We have Ancona duck , Salmon Favorelles and crosses, some barnyard mix, and we are just starting to get eggs from the Bantam Cochin/ Silkies. We also have some Ameraucana and Ameraucana cross chicks available. If you’re interested please send a pm.

03/11/2024

Hello All! We are a mini farm in Spencer,Tn. Our birds are one of our hobbies We have Salmon Favorelles, Easter Eggers, Bantam Cochin/ Silkie crosses, Ancona ducks, and hopefully soon to have Blue Laced Red Wyandottes and Quail. We usually run two incubators from January thru September. We also sometimes find eggs locally to hatch if we have someone looking for a particular breed or cross that I don’t currently have.