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    SHE is crowing but looks exactly like the other girls!!

    could be the rosie odonald syndrome. i had a S.L.W. that did the same thing. she eventually quit it tho
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    How to roast raw soybean meal

    you can boil it also, iv never roasted it tho
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    Crushing Corn?

    i only did it corn a cpl times, i usually do barly and wheat, but it does break corn up into 3-5 pieces. i have a heavy duty bag but a feed bag should work great. by the way the kids really enjoy doing it, just kikk back and watch.
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    Crushing Corn?

    my chickens eat whole corn to just make sure they have grit. ok now if ya want to crack it heres a simple deal i use to do for crushing grains for making beer. get ya a plastic bag- fill with grain and put it on a peice of plywood out in the driveway. put another peice of plywood over that. now...
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    What is happening here?

    i started out with 10 roosters and slowly gave away or sold the aggressive ones. i have to left and there very freindly birds [ eat out of your hand ect. ] and take good care of there ladies. they heard them in at nite and watch for danger while the girls are scrathing around during the day. i...
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    how often should i worm my chickens?

    Quote: it doesnt matter if there laying or not when you work them. dont eat the eggs for about 2 weeks. i use wazine for worming but there are other wormers out there.
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    how often should i worm my chickens?

    i dont no about other people but i worm mine [ wazine] when there not laying eggs anyway. in the late summer - fall during molt. whoops i thunk you said worming ---whats working them? id like to put mine to work shoveling chicken poop.
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    Wormer for laying hens

    i use wazine twice a yr. mix with water and dont eat the eggs for 2 wks.
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    will putting in a heat lamp.......

    in a word no. not one that would work very good
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    will putting in a heat lamp.......

    you can safely use a heat lamp IF it is properly secured. i use one on a 5 gal. waterer during the winter {minus 0 to -20 } i secured it directly above the waterer on a board that is screwed on and i screwed the lamp to that then used wire to further secure it. it would take 6 men and a boy to...
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    Peeing Outside

    i do at least 50% of the time, i think its been dunn for 2 1/2 million yrs. just not in the garden.
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    ok to feed spent grain from brewing beer

    the fact is that grains that have there starch coverted to fermitable sugar have a higher protein to weight ratio than non fermited grain. it is fine to feed for any livestock.
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    sweetfeed for chickens

    ok so i had the brillant idea of buying a 50# bag of sweetfeed for horses, cracked corn,wheat , oats and MOLASES. i tryed a beer recipe that i didnt care for that much. so now i have about 47# of sweet feed and no horses. can my chickens eat it if i dole it out a little at a time? or should i...
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    a green egg

    I have RIR hens and SLW hens and to silkie hens. the silkies went broody this summer so i let them hatch out some eggs from the other hens. [ have a rir roo and what i thought was a slw roo] anyway one of the pullets started laying green eggs now. is it possible that one of the roos has a...
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