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    I need help with chick food please.

    No, the pellets are too large for chicks. Tell your father please to get the large bag of grower mash, or to find "chick starter." Agway carries chick starter in smaller bags. but unless you only have two or three chicks, you will eventually go through the whole 50lb bag, and it is much...
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    Broody Hen doesnt like cage idea!!

    Can’t you give her some fertile eggs? When she is no longer watching over the chicks, sell them.
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    Puhlese!! Help us decide a direction?!?

    https://images.app.goo.gl/Nyo9owXcv289gtVP9
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    Puhlese!! Help us decide a direction?!?

    I have been hoping someone would start importing Frisian hens. They are penciled in various colors and good layers of medium sized white eggs. I have Frisian ancestry which spurred my interest. But the US does not have a reciprocal arrangement with the Netherlands for certification. Getting...
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    Broody hens nest box too high

    Wish I could edit “ deep round basket I put the chicks in. “
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    Broody hens nest box too high

    In my experience, the hens have always stayed with the chicks when moved. I have a deep rounded basketIlut the chicks in, then pick uphen, hold her tight, put chicks in new place ( gently dumping them), put hen with them, and all is well. I have sometimes had to let a hen be free in the flock...
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    Moving broody hens

    Two people responded on a thread under a different category. One said wait to move them until chicks are peeping in eggs, then broody will be attached to eggs, not place. In one trial, this did not work. The hen scattered her eggs all over the dog crate, and spilled the food and water. When I...
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    Do you count your chickens before bed?

    I stopped counting a long time ago. With the new little ones I must have over 100.
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    Over adventurous chick

    So one of my broodies refused to be moved, and hatched ( is still hatching at this moment) eggs in a nest in the coop. The nest only has a low back. Last night I was outside in a driving rain because wind had blown the tarp off a small coop I use as a broody house, where there was a hen and 7...
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    Rooster Saved My Whole Flock

    I had a rooster attack a hawk who was about to fly off with a fat hen. The hawk was a few feet off the ground and struggling to rise with the heavy hen. The rooster flew at his face and he dropped the hen, who was ok. Another story is that of an old mangy coyote, who was separate from a...
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    Bummed...in PA

    Get a real estate lawyer and ask him if there is a way to get this changed. It seems odd that the builder could restrict it forever.
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    Breeding Cream Legbars

    I once hoped to do it, but the CL male was the one chick of 20 (at a sort of teen-ager stage) taken by some predator who dug under the wire. Maybe because he was the only male and already was trying to defend the rest? Then the female just dropped dead at only a year and a few months old, for...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Today it rained all day. But yesterday I replanted some bunched up garlics so in the fall I’ll have some decent cloves to plant for the next year. And I set out broccoli plants, and put some seed potatoes in the ground.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Where do you live? We have not had a full week yet without freezing temps at night.
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    Moving Broody Hens

    I am not against eating them. I once raised 25 barred rock roosters to eat. The feed store used to give them away and then get you on the food. But I had a source for the bread that did not get sold at the day old store. After the chick stage I fed them on that and weeds from my garden. My...
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