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    when to start feeding grit to pullets

    The feed we are currently feeding them is from the amish and has some cracked corn in it is this still ok to not feed the grit?
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    when to start feeding grit to pullets

    I have 14 young pullets of about 14 weeks of age. I was watching them eat today and started wondering... How old should they be to start feeding some sort of grit to them? Im sure it has been answered before but I have not loged on in a while and still figuring this new look out.
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    Daddy Roos Member Page

    Hello From Kentucky!! I am here to share my experience as a person new to raising chickens to possiblly prevent someone else new to the lifestyle from making some of the same costly mistakes that I have made . I am not one of those (No offense) Echo Friendly Patriots trying to convince you...
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    New to the forum

    marlyn5 you have picked a great site to join. I knew absolutly nothing about chickens when I joined and Now I know enough to hold my own so to speak. I had 8 black sex links in the begining and now have almost 30 birds. Delewares, BSL, Golden comets, and a few "Amish Mixes" as I like to call...
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    feeding Chickens Black pepper

    You know as the original starter of this thread I would like to thank everyone for playing along... When I started this thread it was only suposed to be a silly coinky-dink that I made a coment and it came true. then someone made the coment of trying it out. I may be on to something. So I did...
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    Please help....Really weird egg laying behavior?

    As far as being egg bound, maybe try giving her a swig of olive oil to lube her system up. I personally have never had an egg bound chicken yet but I have heard many people having sucess with that
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    Looking back at silly questions

    I was just thinking now that I have gotten used to chickens, about some of the silly things I have asked on here. Of course at the time they were not silly to me at all but now that I am more educated on it they are. So here is my challenge to you all. Reply to this thread with one of the silly...
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    feeding Chickens Black pepper

    cambriagardener I took no offence to your coment. I was more or less explaining the logic behind me trying to push my girls. Also have one hen myself that I will keep past her laying years. Im keeping her for the shear story behind her. My lab has gotten ahold oh her and pulled every feather...
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    feeding Chickens Black pepper

    SilkieChickenLover336 After doing the conversion of Pepper per bird, it came out to 1Tbs per bird. After I concluded my little experiment I realized that it does not really make them lay more eggs but as stated kind of jump starts them to laying. It is the increase in water intake that causes...
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    Bantams and Standard Together?

    I have been very lucky I guess. I purchased a group of 3 chickens from a man and one was a banty. I gave them no introduction period, When I bouth them we put them in a feed sack, and brought them home. I got them to my other (9 at the time) chickens and dumped them out. naturally they...
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    Bantam Egg laying

    And Ironic you stated you were going to "pepper me with Questions" I have a thread on here about feeding pepper to chickens. look for feeding black pepper to chickens. It has seemed to help some other members.
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    Bantam Egg laying

    I do not know the exact breed on her but she resembles a bluew deleware banty. She is about 3 years old and yes she is laying the same way this time of year. I will try to get pics on here tomorow for you to see her and her eggs. The one thing to keeping chickens that are not moulting laying is...
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    Bantam Egg laying

    Happy Chooks do you have the ability to send a copy of the formating or any information on your spreadsheet? Or I guess a better question is are you willing?
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    Bantam Egg laying

    Not very scientific here but I have 1 banty mistery bird. She is a banty, but She came from an amish guy that said she was a small chicken. SO your guess is as good as mine. But she lays 1 egg per day for 5 days strait, then takes one day break and starts for another 5 days and keeps this going...
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    When to start offering a dust bath to young pullets

    SO I have aquired 10 GC pullets that I put in with my 4 youngsters I hatched myself. Out of the 14 there is one cockereal. One of my GC will eat for a while, then start rolling in the feed. Im guessing for the dust. Are they too young to be giving a dust bath or should I put something in there...
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