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I do the mud puddle thing and it works great. I also had no luck with frozen water bottles... they looked at them like they were plague carrying varmits. I also refill the water bowls 2-3 times a day depending on the heat. we've been near 100 lately and they seem to enjoy the puddles the best...

I dunno- but with my own birds that JUST started laying and I free range them a bit as well, they devour the oyster shells. I think because they are white in relation to everything else in the yard that is dirt brown they find them attractive... I actually wondered if they could eat too much...

Hi all- Well, since everyone here knows everything (within reason) I figured this would be the place to ask if anyone knows of a beekeeper website that would be like this one? Someplace with a board, discussions, and how to's for the avg. joe interesting in starting a bee hive/beekeeping for...

My understanding from other posts is NO NO NO. The lime will burn the chickens feet and such. You are better off to use food grade diatomicious earth if you are trying to rid smell and pests. Why are you looking to clean out your coop and dust it? That could turn up some better answers for you.

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OK- call me crazy- but I'm trying to come up with CHEAP ways to keep my chickens cool in the prairie heat this summer. Would they be interested in something like a mud bath in a kiddie pool? Someone said on another post they like to keep cool on the wet ground. What if I filled a kiddie pool...

http://www.designareusablebag.com/vote-for-designs/bag.aspx?BagId=11014&banner=kingsoopers I'm back down to 10th place... was 2nd for a while... but I must say I am highly suspicious of the first and second place bags. They managed to accumulate thousands of votes in a few days. It seems odd...

FREE was the key word to get rid of my roosters- and quite frankly, I think I'm lucky to have done so. He was craigslisted for 4 weeks! A local man wanted to keep a few around the yard to scratch stuff up and to keep some hens in order. He'd had roo's in the past and his neighbor's dog got to them.

OK- I just re-homed my roosters (2 of them) leaving me all hens. What should I expect b way of behavior? Will there be any noticeable change or will it be as simple as one hen coming to the front to manage the others? They are 11 weeks old now.

The weather out here is wonderful today! We are suppose to be in the low 80's all week and then "cool" off to 55(low of 30 that night) sometime and then back up we go! I will not plant warm weather crops yet... I will not plant ......

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Feeling pretty lucky then out here... a little bit of rain today and lots of high winds... but no SNOW!!!! Yippie... I should really get out and check on the chickens though.... bundle up time.

Hahaha I think the real issue is they have developed a taste for the "human" foods instead of the chicken foods. Mine are the same way Given the choice between pellets, scratch and my daughter's left over bread crust, they always run for the bread crust first... then the scratch,... then the...

Sounds like you have the main info down! After reading on the threads on this stuff I would wash and put them in the fridge. I plan on either using them right away or cracking and freezing them into ice cube trays for single egg white servings (best for baking). I have so many friends and...