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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    6 from 17
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    Supplemental light for winter laying

    I've been trying to think of ways to get some light inside my chicken coop. I keep reading that they need 14 hours of light per day. Right now (SE of Austin,TX) it is light about 7:45 a.m. and gets dark at about 12 hours later. But the daylight hours are rapidly getting shorter. I read all...
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    Dust bath?

    I took a couple of plastic tubs and mix peat moss, DE, sand, wood ash and fine dirt. Usually its mostly peat moss and DE. I'm trying some herbs out, too. I chopped up some Rosemary and put about a cup full in. Whatever you use it seems like the chickens love it. When I clean out the coop I...
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    Rooster Attacking Me

    My first rooster was an Americauna. He was beautiful. One day he attacked a lady I was standing in the yard talking to. Then he attacked me. I gave him a couple of swift kicks and he ran off. Our grandson thought he would sneak up on the chickens and scare them. He found out that hens run...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Let our dogs and chickens out. Cleaned out the overnite chicken poop and carried it out to a place in the garden. I pruned 6 small citrus trees that had frozen back this past winter. I thought I had lost them all, but they all are sprouting. Watered everything. Prepared a large "strawberry"...
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    Post your Chick Pictures Here!!!

    Last year I ordered 5 pullets and 1 rooster Buff Orpington. Out of the bunch I have a very broody Buff Orpington hen. Last August she hatched two eggs, naturally one pullet and one rooster. Then she went missing early this year. Our chickens are free range so I thought a predator got her...
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    15 Baby Chicks From One Hen!!

    One of my Buff Orpington Hens disappeared about a month ago. I thought a predator had gotten her. Last Sunday she showed up with 15 baby chicks!! How can she lay at least 15 eggs and they all hatch at about the same time when she was laying one egg a day?
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    Mash, Pellets or Crumbles? Poll!

    I started out feeding pellets and my chickens weren't eating it. I now feed crumbles and I have to buy feed more often!! They free range and do pretty good. I have added water to pellets and they ate that real good. I have a pan under the feed container and it catches most of what they scoop...
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    When do chickens lay?

    My girls usually lay their eggs by about 1 in the afternoon. Once I found three hens all trying to sit in the same nest. I have 6 nest boxes, but they all seem to prefer one or two of them. And I use golf balls in them to hopefully give them the picture of what goes in the nest. Also, once...
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    Bully chicken- seriously evil

    I have three Silver Laced Wyandottes that are getting too mean to my other chickens. Mainly 5 Buff Orpingtons I got this spring, 1 rooster and 4 hens. The rooster is bigger than the SLW, but he runs from them. I am going to separate the SLW one at a time, also to see which one isn't laying...
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    Do you add supplements and or electrolytes?

    I have been adding ACV to their water, but if it isn't good for them in the heat (here in Texas, about 60 miles SE of Austin), then I won't include it in the summer. I put their coop in a large dog pen and have covered the top with heat resistant tarp and foam insulation on the inside of that...
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    Dandelions

    My chickens liked chinese cabbage that I grew over the winter. I would pull up a plant and they ate every thing that looked green on it. Also go crazy for grapes, cherries, raisins, cat food.
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    When to buy chicken scratch?

    I found my chickens eating the cats food. So now, I keep it in a quart size container with a lid and shake it and call chickie, chickie and they come running from where ever they are. Some time I just shake the can and the noise gets them running. Fun to watch them running. They love cat food...
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    Finish this sentence: "You know you're addicted to chickens when..."

    When I put a solar light inside their coop so that the new ones don't get scared outside at night. .
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    how often do i need to clean??

    My coop is small,big enough for 10 chickens to roost in at night. It also has 6 nests for laying inside. The coop is in a pen 6' H. x 10' W x 15' L. The chickens free range every day. I have two small trays inside the coop that I put a layer of about 1" of pine shavings. Every day I cover...
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