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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Awesome Camille, you must be so happy to have them home!
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    2013 SEED/PLANT/GARDENING SWAP

    Of course! Sorry I caused such a stir, I didn't realize there was a set of rules until SilkieSensation quoted them.
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    2013 SEED/PLANT/GARDENING SWAP

    Are you accepting the paypal? If so, could you PM me your paypal address please?
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    2013 SEED/PLANT/GARDENING SWAP

    Those are all the seeds I currently have, the $5pp seems pretty popular so how about that?
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    Ended Official BYC Contest: 200,000 BYC Members? Guess the DAY & HOUR and Win!!!

    May 29 at noon
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    Farm Related Photography. Pictures are the best Advertisement!

    You guys and gals have some amazingly beautiful farms and animals!
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    Cochin Bantams and Frizzle Cochin Bantams!!

    Where in MA are you looking? I know of a guy who had frizzles in the fall and is now ending his bantam cochin breeding. He may still have a few unsold.
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    2013 SEED/PLANT/GARDENING SWAP

    Mine Please pick 5 @ 3-10 seeds each: georgia rattlesnake watermelon (3) moon and stars watermelon (3) alfalfa (5) vetch (5) white dutch clover (5) victoria rhubarb (3) bloody butcher corn (3) sweet basil (10) mary washington asparagus (3) rosemary (10) triomphe de pharcy garden beans (3)...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    For those of you with any size flock that free range any size property: Could you tell us: -What kind of feed you give. Nutrena naturewise unmedicated chick starter/grower crumbles fermented + free choice oyster shell 1. Number in your flock. 7 currently - 6 bantams 1 standard sized 2...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Well said, and I definitely second adding the animal protein right before walking it out to the chickens, don't add it to the ferment. Animal proteins carry the wrong type of bacteria and you end up culturing rotting meat/feed versus healthy probiotics. Quote: Amen
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    No, it shouldn't go bad. You already have a healthy culture of the fermenting bacteria in the feed pan so any new organisms that try to come in will likely be out competed by the already abundant and sustained growth of the bacteria that fermented the feed in the first place, at least for a day...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Being a scientist by trade, this is incredibly interesting to me and I am also trying to provide the best diet I can, like many of you. We're so fortunate to have such knowledgeable people contributing to this thread and I have learned an incredible amount in the past few weeks. I've only had...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Nope, no bagger needed. Its pretty redneck around here - my mower shoots it out the side and it ends up being little rows that I let dry in the sun for a couple days then rake it up and put in old paper feed bags with a pitchfork. I store it in the toolshed, which is pretty dry and dark. I...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    I've been doing that for the rabbits. They love it all winter long and I love it because its free feed.. ha So sorry about Gunnar. I lost my favorite hen when she was 11 months old, she just dropped dead, it was my first loss and quite saddening. Hopefully the lab is able to give you a...
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    Partridge is my favorite color! They blend in so well with my yard that they're nearly impossible to see - perfect camo haha Your ladies are beautiful. Unfortunately, I don't have a partridge roo either. I had one that when bred to my partridge hen threw a partridge baby but he has since...
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