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    Comment by 'CATRYNA' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    I do and it has worked out fine.
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    Comment by 'CATRYNA' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

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    Comment by 'CATRYNA' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    We move our chicks onto sand as soon as they hatch. Within hours they are scratching and eating meal worms.
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    Comment by 'CATRYNA' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    Over time you have to add more.
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    Comment by 'CATRYNA' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    Our family has been keeping chickens for over 10 years now and have always used sand. We use a horse rake covered in hardware cloth to clean and it works great. Never smells . . . ever! We have always used contractors sand, but after reading your article I think our next load of sand will be...
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    Comment by 'CATRYNA' in article 'Mixed flocks - How does it work?'

    We have a mixed flock of 36 hens, two female ducks and 1 female turkey. We used to have more ducks (13) and turkeys, (6) but that was years ago and our flock has diminished with time. We have 3 pens that house them at night; on average each pen is between 65sf-100sf and they are free to choose...
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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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    Comment by 'CATRYNA' in article 'Raising Baby Chicks- Do’s and Dont’s'

    And, don't forget the meal worms once the chicks are a few days old.
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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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