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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    I love that feed but I am in Indiana so I order monthly from Azure Standard. I ferment fed all my new chicks and meat birds and they fought over it. The new chicks that are now 25 week old pullets still prefer the fermented feed over the dry but they love the whole grain!!
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    What can you feed a baby chick?

    there are 75 "red heat" lamps for geckos, lizard that might work for chicks provided it is close. You pretty much have to get this lamps at a pet store. our geckos live in a 10 gallon aquarium and the lamp is in a reflector that sits on top of a wire mesh lid. it keeps the floor of that...
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    Can 2 broodies be in same pen if one has a chick and one doesn't yet?

    I have one Black Australorp that has a 2 day old chick and still has another egg to hatch probably today. I have another BA that is now broody in the coop with the rest of the flock. I move my broody hens to a 10x10 pen in our barn so the other chickens won't bother them and the chicks. Is it...
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    did you start your grain fermenting using UP/ACV?
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    Will a rooster breed a hen who has quit laying eggs?

    I have a 5 year old New Hamp roo. He doesn't breed the chickens like he used to, in fact, I had 14 eggs under a broody and only 2 were fertilized. Do roosters know if a chicken is done laying eggs? Or is he just not breeding anymore because of his age? I got another rooster last week (golden...
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    broken feathers, mites *if you are experiencing this, PLEASE READ*

    I have black lorps that have white spots and broken feathers. I've seen a lot of post about mites. I never had anything like this before. My egg production is way down. I used to put de in the co-op. I have put it in the outside run where they dust bAthe. I'm not sure I can dip 30 hens...
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    composting straw bales in chicken yard

    I have access to straw bales that got wet in a storm and are now somewhat moldy. If I put these in my chicken yard for the girls to paly in will that harm them? I have 34 hens and they'd love sscratching tin them but will it hurt them? Their yard is 40'x120'. We have acreage but they can't...
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    Cross beak EE pullet chick

    ihave an ee with the same thing and she is 9 weeks old.
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    Cross beak EE pullet chick

    do you know what kind of epoxy he uses or can he be contacted?
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    Crooked beaked ee

    My 10 wk old ee has a crossed beak. It crosses so bad i can see her little tongue. i thought about clipping the top beak back some so it could do better eating. The top beak is long and curved that I thought it might help to trim it some. any thoughts?
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