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    what is your favorite dual purpose bird

    Quote: Really, I remember you saying your girls give you all the eggs you needed and that you sold enough to keep your feed cost to nothing. Are you selling them just to your family? I love our barred rocks, but only use them for eggs. Wow, 9.8 lbs at 20 weeks!! I'd have to rethink if they...
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    what is your favorite dual purpose bird

    I'm sorry everyone the family rule is for self and I will not be the one to break it. This was the rule when Grandma gave me the chicks! Some of the family still shows the birds! I've never gotten into that, but I've been told I have one of the biggest roo's the family has ever gotten so eggs...
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    what is your favorite dual purpose bird

    Quote: I think this has everything to do with it. Why have DP birds when we've got the CX, FRs, and KK, and other assorted breeds that are fast and furious from feed to the freezer? Its pretty much standard practice to have a tractor of meat birds and a flock of layers. People are not...
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    Poo in the Nesting Boxes

    I just stapled Card board over the nesting boxs at night so they could not climb in them! In morning take the cardboard off Good luck!
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    I think i've found the best use of my eggs!

    Praise the Lord!
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    chicken manure - sell or give away?

    Quote: If your veggy plants are just up only side dress (beside the row) the plants putting manure on them will burn the plants! Just my two cents!
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    14 Hours Per Day Of Lighting Question?

    Quote: Commercial operations always did, most of us are as the title says, "backyard chickens" I like to minimize my cost and do it as natural as possible! Funny thing is my girls give me all the eggs I need and I sell enough to keep my feed cost to zero! My girls also raise some new...
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    chicken manure - sell or give away?

    Compost it all! I have a wire box I built to put it all in I just keep turning it and turning it. I get a lot of snow up here and I put thin layer on my garden every year! They say not to use fresh I mix with old all the time so only getting a little fresh everytime and my plants in my Market...
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    Will hens challenge each other?

    They are just establishing the pecking order. I'm sure you must have heard the phrase hen pecked My girls are always looking at the head girl and trying to take over, but this is our roo's favorate girl too so they get put in there place again! They will sort it out just keep an eye out so...
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    Can i have a coop of ONLY roosters?

    I had a coop with 30+ roo's in it and had no problems! Not one drop of blood was drawn till they went to freezer camp at 24 weeks!
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    14 Hours Per Day Of Lighting Question?

    Quote: I live in Canada too and never use extra heat for my chickens creates moister problems that will kill your chickens!! There is quite a good section in here on how to get ready for winter you should read it!! Chickens even in the great white north should not need extra heat to survive...
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    14 Hours Per Day Of Lighting Question?

    Quote: I live in Canada too and never use extra heat for my chickens creates moister problems that will kill your chickens!! There is quite a good section in here on how to get ready for winter you should read it!! Chickens even in the great white north should not need extra heat to survive...
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    14 Hours Per Day Of Lighting Question?

    Quote: I will be adding a double timer myself to the coop this thanksgiving weekend (I'm in canada) and I was wondering something and hoping you or someone else knows...can chickens see red lights?? I have the hat lamp on 24/7 in their coop now that its getting quite chilly up here. I just...
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    14 Hours Per Day Of Lighting Question?

    What did they all do before electricity?? I know they didn't hang a lantern in the coop for them!!! Don't know why we get so focused on giving extra light?? I don't use any extra Light and my mom and dad didn't use any extra light and my grandparents did not use any extra light?? Why would you...
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    Don't understand????

    Quote: They got grower ration till the first egg appeared then i switched them to layer ration! as My family has done for years!
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