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    Best source of protien to get high Omega 3 eggs

    Scotty, I agree! I free-range my hens (with roosters), and I, too, have noticed their enormous appetites for meat protein; like you, I have wondered why more feed companies - and more flocksters have not noticed or reported on this. I believe feed companies quit using animal proteins in their...
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    Preventing aggressive behaviour in cockerels/ roos

    I have raised a number of roosters in the five years I've been keeping chickens; some of them turned out to be homicidal maniacs, some became sweet pets, and some are masterful flock leaders. What I can say with certainty is that the rooster's temperament is genetically determined, by both...
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    "California White"

    I purchased 5 of these from Stromberg's a little over a year ago; they started laying in the fall and laid throughout the winter, but it wasn't until this past Spring that they started laying prodigiously. Honestly, these guys are prolific! And some of the eggs are just huge. About their...
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    Best Layers for Newbie

    @ Jed Jackson: This has been my experience as well. really. I DO have sex-links, both BSL and RSL. They tend to be loners and somewhat pushy when it comes to feeding, but the one BSL is a timid little thing around other birds, loves people she knows. She attached herself to the SS chick she...
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    Yellow chunk came out of chickens eye

    You can put a drop of colloidal silver in her eye. It kills most bacteria, fungi, and viruses on contact and is harmless to your chicken's eye.
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    Best Layers for Newbie

    My Barred Rock lives and does well with a mixed flock of RIR and Sussex chickens. She can be a bit of a stink sometimes. I do think many breeds like being with their own kind: my Red birds hang out with other red birds, the black with the black, the white with the white. Last year I tried...
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    Sussex mauled by a cat, not eating

    Yes, either way is good, but I prefer to feed raw if she will eat it, simply because heat destroys nutrients and I feel it packs a bigger bang for the nutritional buck when consumed raw. My birds like it both ways, perhaps favoring cooked (simmered lightly). I just cut it up into pieces with...
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    Sussex mauled by a cat, not eating

    hi, Brittany, and welcome. I am so sorry to hear of your LS' misfortune. Like you, I have Light Sussex (hens and roos), and like yours, mine have been attacked by a feral cat. I have found the cat inside my coops in the morning, and lurking by the pop doors at other times; I do free range my...
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    Make your own - No waste - 5 gallon (25# feed) bucket feeder for about $3

    My Silkies use it just fine (but I do put a little block for them to stand on if it is set up for - and they are sharing with - LF).
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    Winter water?

    Like wamtazlady, I use a large tote with horizontal nipples and a bucket heater. This can be up to 17gallons, and it needs to be for exterior use. I use Sterilite flip latch totes. The bucket heaters do not have be very high in wattage - maybe only 50 - 60 watts, because only the bottom few...
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    Colorado

    y I second this info, jsat , and WELCOME. I did lose one young pullet to cold and snow once, when her flockmates sat on the threshold of the run/coop pop door and prevented her from re-entering the coop. It was tragic, but sometimes that happens. Pays to count. Best of luck with your Mom's...
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    Is anyone using the Premier "heat plate" brooder for chicks?

    I have been using a large (16x24") Premier plate for three weeks now, and I am enrolled. I brought 15 egg layer chicks home from the PO, popped them under the plate, and gained instant silence; 10 minutes later they all were back out, making a racket. I raised the plate, and after a short...
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    Heat Plates vs Heat Lamps

    Last year a couple of Broodies hatched some chicks outdoors when the temps were cold, and I watched them a lot. One morning I looked out the window, and OMG, there was frost and mist and cold everywhere, and they weren't even 10 days old, and the Mama had them out foraging. That is the day I...
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    Heat Plates vs Heat Lamps

    I bought and am using for the first time, a Premier 62 watt heating Plate. Let me say right off that I am enamored of this Brooding plate. I purchased it for economical reasons, and, more importantly, for safety reasons: it cannot get hot enough to ignite most things. This plate is sturdily...
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    Will cats kill Chickens?

    I live in a rural area on two acres with my big dog and 30 chickens. A feral cat has been seen hanging around the property for the last two years, and I'd not thought much about it, but last summer more than just a few of my hen-brooded chicks just disappeared. Three Light Sussax and one...
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