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    GARDEN DADDY https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53858_100_0132.jpg HELLO & welcome to my page, GARDEN DADDY, here at BYC! I am Mike Millson of Jackson, TN. After many-many years of planning and talking about becoming a backyard flock keeper I decided this spring to just jump into...
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    2 week old chick with crooked beak

    I went out just now here in Jackson, TN to put my 4-week old brood to bed and noticed then that one of my Ameraucana chicks (4-wks old) has the very same crossed beak, just happened today. I watch them like a "chicken hawk" and keep a close eye on them daily. But today is the first day I have...
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    Purina "Layena Poultry Feed" recall

    FOR EVERYONE...I found this on my local new channel online information this morning and thought I would pass it on. It is a recall of Purina "Layena" poultry feed. See alert from FDA below for information and states involved. Evidently there are some metal fragments in the feed...
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    Feeding Cream of Wheat (Farina) To Chicks

    Thanks, Alan, for your advice as well. I have and am only giving them the chick starter crumbles and a few rolled oats daily. Sometimes I will throw in a little leaf lettuce but only enough like you they will finish off in a few minutes. The oldest bunch is almost 3-weeks and the youngest 3...
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    Feeding Cream of Wheat (Farina) To Chicks

    Thanks, digitS', for the advice. Yes, I have already decided it would not be a good idea. I have only given them really some dry oatmeal and they are loving it, about 1/2-cup a day for all 16 chicks along with their chick starter crumbles and grit and of course fresh water every day.
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    Feeding Cream of Wheat (Farina) To Chicks

    Thanks, "optic1"...that makes good sense as it takes a liquid to make that into a usable, edible product. Probably not a good idea and think I will let that one go. I just had a source to get that product basically free and was trying to think of ways to recycle something into useful and not...
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    Feeding Cream of Wheat (Farina) To Chicks

    Has anyone every used any dry Cream of Wheat to feed chicks? I have a source to get some as a supplement to my regular chick grower/starter and the dry oatmeal I am giving as a treat along with some fresh greens but read a little about giving this also. Any advice would be appreciated. My...
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    planting forage for free rangers . . .

    I have 2-week old, 10-day old and 6-day old chicks with 4-more (Silver Laced Wyandottes) yet to hatch from my local feed store here in Jackson, TN. I still have all of them in the brooder, with coop and run finished and ready for them to get loose in a few weeks. But I saved an area in the run...
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    dustbathing.... what to use?

    For SPISH: DE is short for "diatomaceous earth" which is a fossilized type of algae that is a natural insecticide as well as a natural abrasive, often used in cat litter and water filtration as well as a product in blood clotting studies and dynamite. Used in chickens and other animals as a...
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    dustbathing.... what to use?

    I have 2-week old chicks and am currently using sawdust and they act like "kids in the candy store" and are having a wonderful time in it. I like the fact that if/when they poop in it I can just add it to either my compost bin or directly into my garden and then replace with fresh. Seems to...
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    Feeding Oatmeal To Chicks

    They do not at this time. I have checked them multiple times a day but have read so much about it. It seems to be the common and most offered suggestion to stop or prevent PB so I thought I would ask all of the experts here at BYC. Thanks for your input! I will pick up some long cooking...
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    Feeding Oatmeal To Chicks

    Regarding some earlier posts in BYC, I see many people are feeding their chicks oatmeat when their birds get "PB" but will feeding oatmeal to week old chicks prevent this from happening in the first place? I am a newcomer to BYC and thought I would ask as well as introduce myself. Thanks to...
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