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    Real world experiences with rooster to hen ratios 18 to 2?

    My daughter in law brought him home along with a hen. They are both bantis. They were both 6 months old and we thought they were both hens until he started crowing. He has always been terrific.
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    Real world experiences with rooster to hen ratios 18 to 2?

    Our chicken coop is a little over 350sf. We have a couple dozen hens and one rooster. We may have a roo growing up in a batch of chicks we acquired a couple of months ago. We shall see what we shall see. The adult roo we have had for 3 years and he has had as many as 3 dozen hens to care for and...
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    Brabanters

    We live in Ramona, CA and after searching for 3 years my daughter found these 6 guys at a feed store, in Escondido, CA, a half hour from us. Three of them have wonderful mohawks, one not such a good one and two without mohawks, but one of those has a huge muff. And, one of them is a Roo. We...
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    Organic feed at Costco

    It's an extruded, highly processed at high heat mixture of wheat, wheat, soy, corn and junk. It's like organic cheerios. So, for a $20 bag of 40 lbs, anyone can call their eggs organic and sell them as such. Very disappointing. Indeed. When I saw the ingredients I immediately knew this was...
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    Organic feed at Costco

    I would rather go to a feed store and have an in and out experience rather than deal with the impossible parking and crowded conditions of any Costco.
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    Egg Skelter

    Excellent, glad you found something that works. The Egg Skelter comes in 2 or 3 different sizes, but none of them worked for us, either.
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    When we started growing fodder several years ago, we started with Barley and then went to Wheat around a year ago, because the local Barley wasn't viable and didn't sprout. We have tried Oats, but were not very successful with it. I have found that is true with most people. We have also sprouted...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Well said. I agree that feeding fodder "only" would be a bad idea. My chickens also get non GMO or (no corn/no soy) feed, along with many different seeds. Some of our hens are 2.5 years old and are still laying 4 or 5 eggs per week. Our younger ones lay 6 eggs a week. I also ferment, which as...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    I have grown fodder for years and I can feed far more birds on 5 or 6 lbs of fodder than 12 or 16 oz of grain, that I initially started with, if you get my drift. The fodder is part of their diet. I have friends who add fodder to their goats, Buffalo, horses and cattle diets. It's grass! And...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    They certainly do compared to the original grain of past decades or even hundreds or thousands of years ago.
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    Silkie / Japanese Bantam Crosses

    Mopeep and Bopeep, together, hatched 13 eggs; 8 roos and 7 pullets. Here are their pullets at 4 months.
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    Deep litter method

    We use sand in our pens. We don't have "coops" per se. Living in SOCAL, we have open pens with part of it either covered with a plywood roof or tarp, where the roosts are. We have found that sand keeps the smell down and using a horse rake with 1/4" hardware cloth zip-tied on it acts as a very...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Wheat berries are just wheat grain. Once they have been sprouted there is no gluten; it then becomes vegetation.
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    I, personally, have been on a gluten free diet for 4 years. We feed our chickens fodder also; the fodder coming from wheat berries. The feed we give our chickens, ducks, turkeys and guineas is GMO free with no corn or soy.
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Too cool would be below the 60's°
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