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    cooling off your chickens

    A tarp in this heat would be about as comfortable as wearing a vinyl raincoat. You don't have to have trees for shade. Try creative tenting with old sheets to let air through over outdoor furniture, stomp in fence posts, beach umbrellas, old kiddie playhouses or swingsets, any kind of sizable...
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    cooling off your chickens

    My flock and I both love watermelon in the heat. I eat the good stuff and leave the rind "boats" around with a little pink left. Over 24 hrs. it will get pecked down to a paper thin green skin, which goes to "Uriah Heep", the compost bin, before chance of mold. Lots of good minerals in melon, as...
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    3 Easter Egger Hens and 1 Barnevelder Roo

    I've got a lot of EE mixes starting to lay now, from various breeds. The dark ones are laying tan to brown. The ones with blonde in the patterns are laying very light olive. A few bordering on very light barely blue. Nothing striking as far as color, although a lot of variety.
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    DO YOU WASH & REFRIGERATE YOUR EGGS?-

    Living in hot Ga., I feed back any eggs if I'm not sure were laid that day. Sometimes mine lay odd places, and I find stashes. that the chickens get to eat. I recently cracked some for them, only to find blood and starts of eyeballs in the eggs! Guess they were sat on a lot, or it was just HOT...
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    DO YOU WASH & REFRIGERATE YOUR EGGS?-

    I'm thinking in Ga. it's not legal to sell them unwashed, right? They have so many rules that I only sell to close acquaintances anyway, but I kinda don't think folks here will want to put unwashed ones in their fridge. I do and wash right before using, selling, or giving away. I read to briefly...
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    All flock+oyster vs layer feed (egg issues)

    I don't think that would cause that. Been doing it for 10 yrs. I just take a bowl of shells out, and crush with my hands and throw on concrete drive. If I'm really in a hurry, I throw down the shells, and quickly stomp and rub with my shoe bottom. They come running and gobble it up, except for...
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    DO YOU WASH & REFRIGERATE YOUR EGGS?-

    That was supposed to be a reply to post 8.
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    DO YOU WASH & REFRIGERATE YOUR EGGS?-

    I hate that, too. Mine is usually due to a hen that's been waiting for her fav. spot, who thinks nothing of crushing another hen's egg. Or someimes they insist on squishing in beside another hen.
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    All flock+oyster vs layer feed (egg issues)

    I bought some powdered milk that I planned to sprinkle on food when there were egg problems. but never used it, as lately no problems, and they started realizing the oyster shell might be worth eating. You could put out some plain yogurt. If you make your own, it's cheap.
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    All flock+oyster vs layer feed (egg issues)

    My older chickens for years would never eat the oyster shell. A few had thin eggs at times. This year's hatch has finally decided to try some. I feed all flock and oyster shell, also. No grit, as they free range with plenty of dirt, sand, and such. However, my chickens have always loved crushed...
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    Bad bad snake

    What breed? I saw one of mine eat a cute tree frog the other day, but snakes, fire ants, stink bugs, stuff that I don't want, they just stare at.
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    Bad bad snake

    I had a couple of black snakes that came to the c. house for lunch daily. At first, I caught them and returned to my woods. Once they knew the route, though, I'd see them returning from the woods for eggs same time daily. So, I started Pam's Free Black Snake Delivery Service, dropping them off...
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    The local Pizza Restaurant is giving us their scraps of pizza and salad.

    Now that I have chickens, when I cook something that doesn't come out tasty, or I cook way too much, I have an excuse to toss it (to chickens), since I'm not wasting. The chickens tell me that ALL my cooking is delicious! Great morale boosters! Now I clean out my fridge BEFORE the leftovers go bad.
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    The local Pizza Restaurant is giving us their scraps of pizza and salad.

    My sister in law claims to know someone who has a huge outdoor flock and feeds their chickens nothing. Bro. can't understand why I "waste" money on food. He doesn't know what it's like when they fly at you screaming when you're late with the feed, and the fights that can occur. I suppose wild...
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    The local Pizza Restaurant is giving us their scraps of pizza and salad.

    They eat stuff off the ground, and bugs from underground. I feed mine leftovers from my plate.
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