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    Broody Hen and Chicks Questions

    THIS is a very useful thread. To the point, not too long. Thanks. (Had a young broody hatch one egg yesterday, so I need as much info as possible--this is great.)
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    First time broody, first chick!

    So about three weeks ago, I had a partridge rock hen go broody. I took her first egg, but the next day she was on another, and I thought, what the hell, let her give it a shot. I've been checking it every day and today it was soft and chick-shaped instead of hard and egg-shaped. I panicked. The...
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    How long does it take YOU to process a chicken?

    I just did my first roosters in two batches of six each, a mixed bag of barred rocks, partridge rocks, RIRs, and one black one--not sure if it was an australorp or a Jersey giant. Anyway, by myself (and it's been cold, so keeping the water hot enough to scald has been a problem) I average just...
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    Can they have fruit?

    Is there an age at which one can begin to give them fruit? I have six day old chicks and my persimmons are starting to fall. I have given them crickets and they catch moths at night already...
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    Moths in scratch - Throw it out or use it???

    First of all, the bugs don't matter--the chickens will probably like it better if it's buggy. However, I would be more concerned about the clumping. You say you can't see mold, but it isn't necessarily obvious. My experience with grain tells me that when it's clumpy, it's likely to have been...
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    Q on chicken feed

    I don't know exactly how you're set up, as you say you have them in separate enclosures, but a free-range poultry farm at which I have helped out uses lengths of 5" PVC pipe cut in half lengthwise, with chunks of 2x4 screwed to the bottom (rounded part) to keep them from turning over. YOu might...
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    wondering about making my own feed

    Some conversating on this topic has recently occurred in this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=395236 Try there!
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    for the self sustained homesteader

    Given that my first chickens are now all of, let's see, six days old, you are welcome to take or leave this. I am, however, an ornithologist, so I'm not completely new to birds! The following recipe for homemade chicken feed is on p. 99 of Christine Heinrichs's (sadly misnamed) How To Raise...
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    Bloomington, IN checking in

    Hiya. Stumbled across y'all this afternoon. My wife and I recently purchased a 33 acre farm (22 of which is wooded). My first chickens are on their way the week of 28 August, a batch of straight-run heavies from Murray McMurray. I am in the process (nearly done, I think) of converting two horse...
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