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You can always take two or three cups of the pumpkin butter, add two or three eggs, a little milk and some vanilla, then bake in a pie pan. That will help dilute the nutmeg.

Great! Let us know how it turns out.

My hens get a variety of foods, but the rice bran and duckweed will make up the bulk of their diets. I plan to phase out the laying mash because of the high cost of the imported feed, and because I want to use locally available ingredients. I would like to hear from anyone who has used...

Put the pumpkin in a slow cooker, add brown sugar or honey, spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, maybe a little ginger, and cook until dark brown. Pumpkin butter...delicious on whole wheat toast.

I live in Suriname, South America, and have a small flock of eight layers in a coop in the side yard. I am currently experimenting with duckweed as a supplemental feed. I do not know the actual numbers, but duckweed is supposedly high in protein. At the present I am feeding the duckweed, and...

I like to keep things simple as well, and just rinse the shells, crush by hand, then put in with the kitchen scraps.

Just skin it, unless you want a whole chicken.

Chickens do smell bad if they are not housed properly. If their coop and/or run has deep litter, there is hardly any smell. I have used leaves in the past, and now use wood shavings, because they are available for free. Makes great compost too, after the chickens are through with it.

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Congratulations! Hang in there!

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Are there any problems with keeping pigoens and chickens together?

Hello! This has probably been covered before, but I am new on this forum and have not seen anything on the topic. So...here goes. Has anyone had experience feeding fish scraps to chickens for protein? For example, after filleting fish, there are heads, backbones and rib pieces with flesh...

Great list! Chicklets (candy/gum) Actually, I think the name for Chiclets came from chicle, which is a gum made from the sap of a tree and used in chewing gum.