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    Eating all my grass seed

    I have a free range flock. They have access to more acres than they can reasonably use. We have some high traffic areas in are yard that just slowly became bare. We are trying to plant grass seed in the area but the chickens had an absolute hay day with that. We laid down seed and then covered...
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    Great Pyrenees/anatolian got a chick

    I’ve been working with my boy for months now. He’s 10 months old. Around 7 months old he began chasing chickens, never killing just playing. At that point we fully separated dog & chickens. He was only around them with me and then immediately back on the chain or fenced in. A few months of this...
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    Free range chicken feed

    Egg increase happened before winter solstice.
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    Free range chicken feed

    Just wanted to share this little discovery I made. I have a flock of 20 hens who are a variety of different breeds. They all have been free ranged their entire lives. I have always gotten far fewer eggs than friends who lock their chickens up. No hidden nests. Even when I did lock them in the...
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    Kalmbach food leading to poor laying?

    I have 19 mature laying hens ranging from 6ish months old to just over 2 years old. I am only getting 1-3 eggs a day. I was talking to a friend who has 30 hens and is still getting 2 dozen eggs a day. It is not super cold, multiple hens did go through a tough molt. However, I have consistently...
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    Cornish cross won’t move with tractor

    Hey y’all! This is my first year with meat birds. We decided to go with 30 Cornish cross. We had one die randomly at a couple weeks old. Another stopped walking at 5 weeks and then got attacked by a raccoon who reached under the tractor. Another (the smallest of the batch) was sickly and also...
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    Is my egg amount normal?

    I feel like 10 is very low. They lay all day long, they’re often not done until 4pm. Some days I go in at 4 and there are still chickens laying eggs. So keeping them in the coop would be a little hard. I’ve scoured my yard, there are no hidden nests, we’ve been dealing with these fluctuations...
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    Can I just sneak chicks under broody hen?

    I might put fake eggs under her!
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    Can I just sneak chicks under broody hen?

    I have a broody hen. I don’t want any more barnyard mix chicks. I would like to buy some specific breeds. Is it possible to take out the eggs and just put chicks under her?? She started sitting on eggs today. Should I wait a few weeks and then sneak them under?
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    Is my egg amount normal?

    I have 21 laying hens. Ages range from 6 months to 2 years old. All sorts of breeds, RIR, cinnamon queen, Easter egger, olive egger, Welsummer, ameraucana, marans, Orpington, austrolorp, Wyandotte. A good mix of breeds. They are free range from 6am-7pm. Fed kalmbach 17% nongmo feed with some...
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    Knife Recommendations?

    I need a good knife recommendation for processing, breaking down & deboning. I've heard good things about Victorinox and Dexter brands. Any experience with those? Should I go for a flexible knife? Semi-stiff? What about culling? Last time we tried to cut the artery the knife wasn't sharp enough...
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    Starlings & Sparrows invading coop and feed

    Having what feels like a longer and colder than usual winter here. Second winter with chickens. We are dealing with an overwhelm of wild birds. We keep all chicken feed outside of the coop but we noticed hundreds of wild birds (sparrows, starlings, cardinals, and bluejays) swarming the feed. In...
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    Depluming mites? Pecking?

    I have a flock of 19 hens, 2 roosters, and 6 12 week old chicks. Noticed some missing back feathers about a month ago on 2 of my hens. I figured they were being overbred. I ordered saddles and left it alone. Now about 7-8 hens have the same loss of feathers in their back. There are feathers all...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Can anyone tell me what number this marans egg would be? Super excited about our first few marans eggs!
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    How to protect broody hen & babies from flock

    I have a first time broody hen, this is our first experience with allowing a hen to hatch eggs. Eggs are hatching and babies are here. Do I need to protect them at all from the flock? They’re up in the nesting box, other hens are still trying to lay in the nest that she’s been in. I’m guessing...
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