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    We've got an egg-eater on our hands...😤

    It hasn’t deterred mine, I presume only the one nosing around must get it up their nose but I really don’t know how it works, I know I wouldn’t like mustard powder up my nose
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    We've got an egg-eater on our hands...😤

    Neither do I but it’s worked for me for 60 odd years without fail and for my grandparents before me-maybe it gets up their nose….
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    We've got an egg-eater on our hands...😤

    Powdered mustard sprinkled in nest box worked for me but chickens don’t mind a bit of spice
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    We've got an egg-eater on our hands...😤

    Great, maybe the eggs were just getting broken and it was a transient thing. I had magpies going into my chicken houses for the eggs-I bought a scarecrow, problem solved
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    We've got an egg-eater on our hands...😤

    I presume they don’t like the taste, my grandparents used it and it’s worked for me for sixty odd years, if I see a broken egg I sprinkle that nest box and don’t lose any more eggs.
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    2 fold question. Egg eater & not laying in box

    The laying box needs to be dark- ie., cloaked at the front, mine are integral to a custom made chicken house but you could get individual roll back ones, problem solved as the eggs aren’t there to be eaten
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    We've got an egg-eater on our hands...😤

    I sprinkle powdered mustard in my boxes on top of the sawdust and that’s always worked for me
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    Official BYC Poll: What’s your favorite winter treat to give your chickens?

    I give maze, sunflower hearts, meal worms, pea flakes and warm chicken mash as well as layers pellets from auto feeders, I soak a bucket full of treat feed over night to dish out in the morning and scatter a bit of corn in the afternoon by their pellets remain their main feed all year round.
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    Bullying Easter Egger

    Sounds like you have a cock bird there
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    Easter eggers

    I have a mixed flock that all get on very well, EE’s can be bred from so many different breeds, most of mine are marans x aracuana, lovely big girls that many seem to call blue marans or bluebells. I did however have one small hen chick arrive that has the, “fluffy cheeks” of the so named...
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    Advice on raising an Exchequer Leghorn chick- Is slower development normal?

    Are you sure it isn’t the bantam type- I have bantam and large foul in exchequers
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    Anyone have any good tips and tricks that are Cheap and easy to boost protein and nutrition for chickens?

    I’m in the UK and our DEFRA CHICKEN CONTROL lot say NO kitchen scraps to be fed whatsoever as they are a salmonella risk, etc., I feed sunflower cornels, dried meal worms and dried peas as extras mixed with meal but mainly our layers pellets and very little corn. I also feed greens and weeds...
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    UK Members Please Say HI

    I lived ight by there until I moved here to the top of the forest
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    UK Members Please Say HI

    Hi, I’m Lyn and I am from th South East- Ashdown Forest- I live on the top near the hundred acre wood-A.A.Milne- Winnie the Pooh country and previously near Pooh Bridge but didn’t move far, just higher onto the forest near the hundred acre mention.
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    UK Members Please Say HI

    Hi, I live on the fabulous Ashdown Forest of Winnie the Pooh A.A.Milne books original setting…
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