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    Making your own dog food.

    My dogs get raw to. They eat whole pray so i don't make there feed, but i do breed it. Since they eat raw they are more content, have cleaner teeth (they where so bad they would have to be cleaned), they poop only half they did, overall they are in better shape. I am very happy to have done...
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    In summer you can put them in with your chickens when frozen. Just make sure the outer layer won't stick to there skin, like you can have with ice. Also frozen fruits and fruitsaus is a welcome treat in the heat.
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    A little tip: Trubble with keeping your home made flock block nice? Keep them in the freezer, they will keep very well. Just let them defrost for a while before feeding. Freez them on a plate so they won't stick together. When they are frozen put them in a bag or container. Now you can take out...
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    Quote: The easy answer is it doesen't mather how many eggs. The more usefull answer is: How many eggs you use depends on how much dry and wet ingredients you use. Just start with a little bit of egg and mix, then keep adding till the mixture is wet enough. Or start the wet ingredients with an...
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    Got our nipples, how do they learn to use them?

    I use rabbit drinking bottles for my chicks. They learn it very fast when they just come out of the egg. I only have to push there beaks into it ones or twice and then they do it themselfs. With the adults i had taken out the waterer at night when i closed up and gave them the nipples half a day...
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    Chicken nipples in soda bottle?

    My chickens just drink out of the bottles i used to have for my rats and rabbits. You know the bottles withe a nipple they work very well. Even the ones that drink for the first time out of the egg i only have to show it ones or twice. With a normal waterer i had to show them more often. I don't...
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    Welkom to the forum !!!!! You are now defetenely hooked on chickens....... Quote: Maybe if you add some more flour and a little water in it so it gets a little more like a sticky dough. When the flour just coats all ingredients you'll have enough put in. Then put in your gravy (or other wet...
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    A vlokreeftje is a small watercreature that they normaly use to feed turtles. The latin name is Amphipoda. I bought a jar dried amphipoda for the little chicks, because they are to small for the big mealworms i have at the moment. I just started breading them so i don't have little ones yet. You...
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    The flock balls just out of the oven. They are rock hard. I made hard cookies for my rats and mice so i have had some experiance. The balls get real hard because i use some flower. This is what binds the seeds and it makes it hard. In the photo you see that the balls are very light in color...
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    Just made my flock balls. I put in: a cup of sunflower seeds, a cup of scratch, a cup of birdseeds, half a cup of dried vlokreeftjes, half a cup polentaflower, half a cup of fijne polentaflower, a cup of flower, half a cup to a cup of water. Put all the dry stuff in a bowl and mix it. Put the...
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    Homemade flock block recipes

    I'm gona make a flock block too. It's for my rooster en two nine week old chicks. And a tiny one for my 2 and a half week old chick. It wil have scratch in it and some bread and i have some dried crandberry's, some raisins. And some sunflower seeds, pumpkinseeds, pineseeds and whatever else i...
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    Ever made a hat for your chicken?

    I am sorry to hear you have lost her. Good luck with your rooster anyway.
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    are the feathers on a silkies....

    You can cut featers, nails and beaks without problems. Only in de base of the nails and in the base of the beak are bloodvessels. The feathers don't have bloodvesels in them. If you don't want to try it at ones yourself ask somewon tot show you how.
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    Ever made a hat for your chicken?

    Mayby you can make something like a head and neck protector for horses during transport. It covers the head and neck, so it will stay better on. I can send you a drawing of what i mean if you like. Good luck with it.
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    Beards

    I use the drinking bottles you can get for rabbits. It works very wel for me. The chicks pick it up very qiuck. In the picture you see the drinknippel. They pick at it and then they get the water. It is a tube with two metal balls in it and it doesn't leak and the water can't get dirty. Just...
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