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    Roosting in trees-again

    I assume you tried giving their flight feathers a trim. Just don't cut right up to the cuticle as that can hurt them.
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    One way around it is to avoid buying feed. If you let your girls eat whatever they want from the environment it is about as organic as you can get. Youl'll have to do something in the coldest parts of winter, but the other three seasons give them all they need for food the natural way.
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    Cicadas are coming, will you let your chickens out?

    We also have gallons of them frozen in our extra freezer. I'm taking the approach that each little lady can choose how many to eat each day for themselves. any time my kids think there are not enough for our girls to eat, they just shake a little tree and cicadas come flying down to the ground...
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    Cicadas are coming, will you let your chickens out?

    We just decided that our chicken run isn't needed as our girls come right home each night and the local woods don't seem to have as many daytime predators as we thought they might. Cicadas just emerged today for the first time (we have only seen some brave souls prior to today). The Girls went...
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