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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    I didn't have time to read through all of the posts. Since the suggestion is to use fermented grains, can spent grains left over from making beer at a brewery be used for chickens? I have a bunch of little breweries in my area and was hoping they would like me to take some of their spent grains...
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    WHAT killed my chickens???

    What is a Fishercat?
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    WHAT killed my chickens???

    JackE, Thank you for your input! I live out in the country in an old farm house and have a really large chicken coop. My coop is a ways from my house surround by cattle pasture. My chickens have been free ranging up to my house eating all the bugs, etc during the day since the fall when I...
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    WHAT killed my chickens???

    My heart totally goes out to you! I to am attached to my chickens. My flock has been decimated by a predator. I've lost 12 chickens in 2 days. They free range during the day. No sign of anything except for a few feathers of one chicken and 1 carcass of another. I'm absolutely devastated. I think...
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    Hens eating glass and polystyrene

    I found pieces of broken glass and small pieces of plastic in my little Cochin's gizzard. Her life was cut tragically short by our dog. My poor kids are devastated! She is the first chicken I have ever processed. I am planning on getting meat chickens this spring so I figured I better get some...
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    Chickens who HATE snow?

    I live in Oregon and I am on my first journey through winter with chickens. We have had a lot of snow the last couple of weeks (over a foot on Friday/Saturday). On Sunday when I went in to check on my chickens, they excitedly pecked at all the snow from my boots, water bucket and the snow I...
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