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    How do you sell your eggs?

    My wife stocks about 3-4 dozen in the breakroom refrigerator at her workplace every Monday. They just disappear eventually. And every once in a while a $10 or $20 bill or a $25 or $50 Tractor Supply Co. or CAL Ranch gift card shows up on her work station desk. The co-workers understand.
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    Ended BYC's 2022 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along—Poultry Pecking Pumpkins Photo Contest

    "HEY, LADIES, look at this pumpkin I carved for you! Tastes great, and I got it JUST FOR YOU!! Come gobble some of it!!" 🙄
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    Topic of the Week - "Off-grid" Feeding - Homemade feeds, etc.

    I haven't read 25 pages of thread to see if this was mentioned yet, but..... If you have a local microbrewery, the boiled-through malt grains (industry parlance: BSG, or Brewery Spent Grains) are edible for chickens, and makes a GREAT "boredom-buster" treat. Please note that: 1) this BSG will...
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    What's One Accessory That's Made Chicken Life Better?

    Not sure if any or all of these count, but let me toss you what I've learned over the years: *Squares of either carpet samples or plastic artificial "grass" in the bottoms of the nesting boxes add an additional layer of insulation, softness, and protection--but make sure it's not anything the...
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    Sponsored Post Complete this Chickens Survey for a chance at 3 $100 gift cards!

    Used a PO Box, and the chickens are a couple ZIP Codes away. :p
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    BYC Debate Thread- What's The Friendliest Chicken Breed?

    To the above: The Danger of Friendly Chickens: If your chickens free-range, they may literally attempt to go up and befriend a fox, coyote, feral dog, or other predator. We think we lost the original Choo-Choo (Buff Orpy) and and her coopmate Spoon (black Australorp) that way, to a...
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    Wood chips for bedding?

    Let me preface this with disclaimers: We live in "high desert" of north-central Arizona (State Motto: "....but it's a DRY heat....") My wife started initially with pine shavings from the farm-implement supply company for the first year or so, but later experimented with something else: DRIED...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest: "Chickens 'n Treats" Photo Contest

    The only one I can scare up now: We won a Pumpkin Spice Henhouse Reserve Block online from maker Kalmbach Feeds, and who were the first two to try it? Two small hens named Nutmeg and Paprika!
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    Ended Official BYC Contest: "Chickens 'n Treats" Photo Contest

    No, you make them COOP CAKES! ................................. FROM SCRATCH!!!!
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    Muddy coop

    fine powder...................
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    Muddy coop

    Someone from high-desert Arizona here. We don't have many opportunities for things to get muddy here, and when it does the chickens tend to LOVE the change of ground, from rock-hard dirt to squishies. Indeed, I have to water the runs with sprinklers now and then to keep the runs from becoming...
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    Today's "Zits" Comic Strip of Relevance Here

    Jeremy's friend proposes a new alarm clock: https://comicskingdom.com/zits/2021-11-03 (I won't repost an image of the strip here account copyright; just trust me that it's worth looking at. Seems the creators DO know something about chickens........ and that some of the commenters to the...
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    Topic of the Week - Recycling (In) The Coop

    There seems to be a theme around that REAL chicken farmers (at least ones not raising 100,000 birds) would NEVER build a brand-new chicken coop--the tradition is to repurpose whatever is handy, from a shed to a school bus! I'm heavily involved in the railroad preservation field, and a common...
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    Feeding your flock amidst of feed shortages

    I spoke with the manager of a local Tractor Supply Co. outlet in north-central Arizona today; he knows me well enough to be honest. He said that, yes, their orders have been shorted minorly in the past couple months, but nothing that amounts to anything more than a nuisance or inconvenience...
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    Feeding your flock amidst of feed shortages

    Not entering into the whole "is the world going to Hades?" discussion, only offering what CAN be a temporary stop-gap or supplement: Find a local craft brewery, microbrewery, or nanobrewery in your area. Breweries generate lots of spent grain--mostly malted barley, with occasional wheat, and...
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