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    Hostas?

    Sounds like what my girls did to my sweet potatoes. Grrrr. Hubby was supposed to be watching them. I don't know how people have gardens and chickens. Mine eat EVERYTHING except the mint and the chives, but they dig up the roots looking for other treats
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    uptick in calcium intake?

    I bought my girls 5 lbs of oyster shell calcium because I had a couple layers of weak shells. Ten SLW's went through 5 lb bag in 3 days! I thought that was an awful lot. They get layer pellets and I have a scratch block for them as well. They are pullets, just started laying in November...
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    rehoming ex-battery hens. (UPDATE: Recovering Status) PICS

    How bout naming her Lucky Lucy
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    Just plain weirdness (IMHO)

    I have one little pullet in my flock that sticks her head through the fencing and puts her rump in the air. Several other pullets gather around her and pull out feathers from her tail, rump and back. This just started about a week ago. I am worried about her as she seems to like this abuse...
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    Recipe for "warming" food for layers

    Hi, Up here in the cold north of Idaho I was wondering about a "warming" recipe someone gave me for my girls. I have 10 SLW that are just 6 mos old and are laying. We supplement daylite for them up to 14 hrs. A friend said that I should mix a bit of karo syrup and some cayanne pepper in their...
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    Why Aren't My Chickens Laying? Here Are Your Answers!

    I got 10 SLW's this May. 4 weeks ago I found my first real egg. Yes, I did the chicken dance. Now I am getting 4 eggs a day but that means I have 6 girls hangin out doin not too much. We live in the Pacific NW so days are short here and we started supplementing light just about the time I...
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    Ended Official BYC Contest—Post Your Best (Worst) Chicken Molt Pictures—Fall/Winter 2011

    OMG that is one nekkid looking birdie;)
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    what is this on my game-cam?

    You might contact your local fish and game dept. That looks an awful lot like a Puma. They are thought to be extinct in the south. They were a type of smaller cousin to the Western Cougar. Good luck.
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    They eat feathers?

    I made some seed cakes like I make for the bird feeders. Lard or suet, peanut butter, sesame and rolled oats with high protein cereal mix. I also diced up some hard boiled egg white. The feather picker seemed very interested in the egg whites, none of the others gave it more than a taste. We...
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    They eat feathers?

    I've got one little pullet going on 6 weeks old who is aggressively chasing, pulling feathers from and eating them from the other larger and older hens. Well, older by a week. None of the others are doing this and they are being fed a commercial 19% protein chick food product. She is the...
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    Skittish chicks... They can be tamed.

    I have 15 that I am handling two or three times a day. They are all a little skittish but the like treats I bring. My neighbor suggested covering my couch with an old sheet and sitting on the couch with them watching TV together. He said its what he and his wife did every time they got...
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    How often do you give chickens grit?

    My Chicks are just shy of two weeks and I have introduced some little bits of lettuce and apple shreds. Should I be giving them grit as well?
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    Should I worry about calcium with new chicks?

    Thanks for the information. I didn't remember my Mom feed any calcium to her chicks...but I wasn't always paying attention either. My husband works in construction so grit isn't hard to come by at all. I really got a laugh out of some bags of "crushed organic granite" I saw.
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    Should I worry about calcium with new chicks?

    Should I be supplementing my new chicks with calcium right away? I thought the chicks only needed calcium once they were hitting about 6 mos. old. I don't have my chicks yet they are on order and will be here on May 11th. I am all set with feed, pine shavings, heat lamp and brooder/nursery...
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    Finished our brooder with pic

    Thank you!
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