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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    Ok—it’s been a little over three weeks since my last post, and I’m just here to give an update. I continued to give my chickens free choice of greens and pelleted feed. (I was clearing my winter garden so there was a glut of greens!) The amount of pellets they ate during those three weeks was...
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    My bird-brains.
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    Ok—so I took out the remaining feeder last night and left an empty terracotta dish out. Next morning I headed out to them with a small bowlful of pellets and poured it in the dish. They all congregated around and began devouring the pellets. By early afternoon, the pellets were gone and I...
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    Same style.
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    Yes I heard about that too. Though it seems like those birds kept eating the food, but weren’t laying any eggs. The inverse of my situation. I checked again this afternoon (didn’t feed them greens) and only a teeny bit of food had been eaten. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    They’re secured
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    It smells and looks normal—is there some other way to tell if it is stale? How old is too old?
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    Good idea—I’ll give it a shot!
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    Chickens not eating pelleted feed???

    Hey everyone--I'm puzzled as to what is going on with my chickens. I went out of town for a few days, and when I came back I noticed that my chickens ate a lot less food than I had expected. (Laid plenty of eggs though.) One of their two feeders was halfway empty and the other was almost...
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    Wanted: OPEN AIR COOP Pics

    Here’s ours, unfinished. Still needs trim work and window covers, but the main body is done. As you can see, we live on a hillside, so it was built on stilts with concrete at the base of the four main posts. Removable plywood floor, metal roof with insulation under it to keep the heat from...
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    California-Southern

    Beautiful bird! I’m sure someone will want him.
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    California-Southern

    Hey folks! I’m Mel and I live in Escondido. I’m on the hunt to replace our little bantam cockerel who died unexpectedly. Looking for anyone who might have a young Rhode Island Red male bantam for adoption or purchase. Wonderful breed—just hard to find since other bantams seem to be much more...
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    Need to replace our little buddy

    I know—I was totally wondering about that. They’ve all been vaccinated for Mareks and eating medicated chick feed. We use dedicated boots to go in the walk-in coop, and they are completely protected from other birds, squirrels, etc. He did have one broken feather the day before which had a...
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    Need to replace our little buddy

    Thanks for the links!
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    Need to replace our little buddy

    No, I haven’t—didn’t even realize there were state threads. Thanks for the tip! 👍 I’ll look for it and post there.
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