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    garden help! growing food for chickens

    thanks! i've never tried kale because i won't eat it lol but that should grow well around here. with the high predator traffic, consideration for our neighbors, and no rooster rule, our chickens are never out of their big run. we have to go with 1/2" hardware cloth and underground apron...
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    garden help! growing food for chickens

    Hi all! I'm a persistently failing gardener lol. I've tried on/off for years with minimal success, but I'm determined! We've got 3 acres and the majority of it is cleared, usable land. Seems silly not to produce more than eggs with that space! Last year we fenced in a 20' x 50' garden. (We...
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    Using up bulk ingredients for chickens

    Due to a diet change we have an excessive amount of pure almond flour and coconut flour that we cannot eat and cannot donate because it was purchased in bulk bags and dumped into gamma buckets without packaging. It's also a ton of money we wouldn't relish just giving up. Are either/both of...
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    Sour Krout

    Is sour krout safe? I have a gallon jar that I left open too long. It's not moldy but it just doesn't taste good to me anymore. If it's ok, should we rinse it? (Flock is all 8 weeks old; been outside eating all the plants & bugs they can find for just over 2 weeks.)
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    Coop and run built! Questions to get it ready

    It has 24 feet of roosts and vents across each long side where the roof is attached (covered with hardware cloth)
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    Coop and run built! Questions to get it ready

    We have 12 little girls that are 3 weeks old. (Wellsummers, Dorkings, Faverolles, and Ameraucauna) First timers! Husband just finished making a gate for our run today. The coop is ready! The girls have started going outside for playtime when it's nice out, which they love. What we're not...
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    Force them to eat dumped food?

    Thanks! These are our first dozen :)
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    Force them to eat dumped food?

    it's a starter/grower crumble so all pieces are the same
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    Force them to eat dumped food?

    Ty I may have to try. But isn't it just immediately filled with bedding, too?
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    Force them to eat dumped food?

    It's the kind pictured. It is raised but I think we may need to dump our bedding and restart, as it's getting pretty deep now from sprinkling over new poops. Far as I can tell they're just super messy. They're not tipping the feeder over but just pulling tons out and dropping as much as...
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    Force them to eat dumped food?

    Our chicks are 2 weeks old. We have a chick feeder that they are constantly wasting a large portion of the food by dumping it on the ground. If I let the feeder go empty - will all of them find food from the pine bedding? Or is that too mean?
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    Vitamins always?

    We got these vitamins for our new chicks. Do y'all keep giving these long-term? If not, for how long, or only in what circumstances? (We are starting out with Kalmbach organic starter grower, if what you feed impacts your vitamin decision)
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    aggressive ground wasps

    Our property (3 acres, Pennsylvania, partially wooded along perimeter but majority land we use) is plagued by underground wasps for the last couple years, and seeming to escalate yearly. We have tried spot treating with diatomaceous earth, good ole wasp sprays, vinegar flooding, etc. It seems...
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    Do I have this right about sand?

    Thank you very much for taking the time to go into the terminology as well as your personal experience - that helps a lot!
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    Do I have this right about sand?

    Thank you! I think I used the term deep litter just because in my head the sand method shared the "long term" part of deep little method - my mistake to convolute them. The books I've read described using sand and sifting poop out daily but leaving the main bed of sand in for quite a long...
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