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    What breed of duck should I get?

    When my hybrid layer ducks try to fly they fall after a few flaps, curse and then bury their faces in the pool to drown their misery I'm almost 100% sure of it. They are embarrassed the chickens fly better.
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    Fermented is digested a lot better I started doing it after finding my birds weren't thriving on dry mix and water. They immediately began thriving and have been since.
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    Corn and Soy free......?

    I make my chickens feed as well. And supplement with cooked squash we grow, cooked potatoes and surplus greens of all kinds. Ours also like millet (easy to grow) and most kinds of seeds (sunflowers are another easy grow then you can just hack off, dry and store for the winter month's). It is...
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    Corn and Soy free......?

    I can't eat eggs off chickens fed corn or soy or washed in vinegar/acid washes (or most soaps) because it contains corn products. For about ten years we thought it was an egg allergy until I learned about products transferring over when the chickens ate them and the washes used on grocery store...
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    Burlington WA changed chicken restrictions right AFTER we bought our chickens and designed our coop

    I guess the real problem is we have one neighbor who, even if we had one chicken, would report it. He reports every neighbor we have for everything he can pick on. His son works for the police. I can sadly guarantee we will be reported and brought out to everyones attention by him. Likely...
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    Burlington WA changed chicken restrictions right AFTER we bought our chickens and designed our coop

    It's ironic because we stopped building the coop BECAUSE they changed the code the other day (wishing we wouldn't have checked that last time....I haven't SLEPT since I found out and the answer we got the times before was totally different than the one we got the other day/month/years when we...
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    Burlington WA changed chicken restrictions right AFTER we bought our chickens and designed our coop

    If your also in Burlington WA (or just keep chickens and would like to be involved) feel free to join. https://www.facebook.com/groups/553516178022223/
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    Burlington WA changed chicken restrictions right AFTER we bought our chickens and designed our coop

    Forgot to add, if anyone has chickens in Burlington the enforcement officer will look for your house and force you to let them inspect your entire coop. If you have more than five chickens you are now a "violator". If anyone is going to fight this, you had better do it soon. If I was...
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    Burlington WA changed chicken restrictions right AFTER we bought our chickens and designed our coop

    So I was looking into this for over a year, and called them many times/read over the rules to make sure how many chickens we could have. Unlimited we were told, no roosters, cool, so we went ahead and bought our chickens (knowing it would only take us a weekend to finish the coop and we'd have...
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