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    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    This is great, thank you! I got all of my chicks at the end of April, and I only have 3 out of 4 chickens laying, and then I have a pair of guinea hens that I was told I'd never find their eggs- if they ARE hens. Not that I got them for eggs lol so I wasn't sure which way to go... I had switched...
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    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    I'm not going to feed black oil sunflower seed to my chickens because it's *not chicken food*. I don't feed the dog cat food, and I don't let the rabbit eat the dog food (and he tries). Also, I'm trying to keep them away from the bird feeders so they don't get avian flu. That was the initial...
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    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    I was wondering about the pellets... They recommended the crumble when I got the chicks, so I just stuck with that... but pellets sound like a good solution when this is the second bag in 4 months that just has SO much dust in it. I think I would rather fence off that area of my property...
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    Hens, wild birds, and food quality

    Hi- so I'm relatively new to keeping chickens... We let our handful of hens roam when we're home for most of the day (one of my main goals was to cut into the tick population). But it has become more work than anything keeping them out of where I don't want them. We have a herding dog that loves...
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