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    save your chickens

    I recently had to go before my city council and have a section of their "new revised animal ordinance" which was against and limiting not only the quantity and greatly increasing the square footage of land requirements on land to have chickens. first we have only hens for egg production and...
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    Squawking hen, of is she choking??

    i have this one light brahma hen that every time she feeds, she lets out giant squawks that look like she is choking. this goes on until she finishes. i am sure she is not showing she's the queen of the hill or anything like that. she has plenty of water around if she wants a drink. as a...
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    Building a new coop, but have a few questions...

    pic looks good. use paver stones and shims under the weight bearing posts level it out. you can get them at home depot to level out the pen. i also lined the outside of mine with 1' x 1' paver stones for protection and it looks good. put plenty of sand in the run. i use both straw and wood...
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    Pellets vs Crumbles

    i've had my best results with crumbles and scratch mixed 50 - 50. the hens lay better and if i use the correct setting on my feeder i have cut down on the waste. there seems to be just as much waste with pellets as crumbles. another way i have found to cut down on waste is to put fresh sand...
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    4 foxes up on a hill at my neighbors

    sorry, but i have no qualms when it comes to my hens. kill the foxes if they come on your property. although be very careful not to endanger anything else when disposing of them. live traps work great on foxes, reccoons, opossums, and other predators. what the animal control folks do here is...
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    ideas on what you feed you layers

    for the past couple of months i have fed my 8 hens layenna crumbles mixed with standard hen scratch. the wife also picks some grass for them each day as her treat to them. yep they are spoiled. i was wondering if i could add some alfalfa pellets as well without hurting them. the weather is...
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    amercuana not laying

    we have 8 hens 5 rhode island reds, 3 light brahams, and 1 amercuana. they are all about 7 months old. the R I R's started laying about a month ago, the Brahams started about 2 weeks ago. the Amercuana has still not laid. she goes through all the motions even sets on the nest and makes loud...
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