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    Oregano oil for chickens

    something that you can try... I've done this to add some brewers yeast to my feed for the vitamins...I diluted some blackstrap molasses with water (didnt measure but it was thick enough where it would still stick to the feed and made the feed sticky) I wonder if it would mask the taste of the...
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    Roosters vanished... guineas or wild predator?

    Yea somethin with a small beak like a guinea. I've got a guinea that pecks at me EVERY night when I go get eggs. I wasnt around much when they were keets so they are little snots... but a few do sleep in the trees around the coop every night now standing guard.
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    Roosters vanished... guineas or wild predator?

    Just read the other post where you guys are saying fox... I haven't seen any foxes around our area and our roosters have taken on a possum that later met our 22. We killed the one coon that WAS coming around. My dogs were also outside all day today so if it was a predator it would have happened...
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    Roosters vanished... guineas or wild predator?

    A couple weeks ago I lost my first rooster. I found him dead outside the coop... no blood but all of the feathers had been plucked from his chest and there were bruises the size and shape of beaks. Then tonight since I closed the coop up early I did a head count... all hens accounted for but no...
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    Feeding Free Range

    I've noticed that if I fling it around in the woods they seem to eat less of their feed and more of whats around the feed. I add the oyster shell when I don't see any more on the ground and add a mix of brewers yeast and garlic once or twice a week, its a powder so I add a tablespoon to my...
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    Feeding Free Range

    I was trying to break them of begging, they were so used to just being fed they were barely foraging. I might look for a scheduled dog feeder to feed them at night because I can't be there. I would LOVE to be able to leave feed out for them but then they stay close to the coop and eat the easy...
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    Feeding Free Range

    Thats a really good idea! I use a concrete mixing bin when i clean out the coop then it goes to the compost pile. I might have to try this!! Found signs of chickens in my garden yesterday and thankfully they were just scratching and eating pill bugs (best guess) Maggots would be a great source...
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    Guinea hen gone broody

    I plotted an area for me to check starting tomorrow. (basically used google earth) The junk pile is a little over 200 ft away from the coop so it looks like just woods for my search and half of the radius is our house, driveway, and garden so it looks like it will be a quick search!! We have...
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    Guinea hen gone broody

    I am missing two of my guineas, its hard to tell for how long but I want to say its been a little over a month. Before they went missing the hens were laying eggs in the coop, I haven't had a guinea egg in almost two months if I am remembering right. We live in the woods with decent underbrush...
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    Feeding Free Range

    We have a flock of 20 hens, 3 roosters, and 6 guineas. Everyone free ranges over 5 wooded acres that is over flowing with rollie pollies (pill bugs), ticks, beetles, etc not to mention TONS of greens from all of the ground cover. They are so dependent on their grain food its not even funny. I am...
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    Free Chicken Apron/Saddle Pattern

    Thank you ladies!! I am off to joanns tonight to raid their scrap bin! I have two girls with bare backs... they DESPERATELY need aprons! curious to see what the scrap bin has in store for my girls!
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    What is The Smallest Breed Of Goat?

    We are looking at getting a couple Nigerians (one doe and one buck) because i read that their milk is pretty close to a cows milk. We are going to START with one 80x80 space because the rolls of goat fencing are usually 330ft. We are also planning to have a house for them that can be closed at...
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    Oregano oil for chickens

    I usually use silver for our birds, I add it to their water from time to time but now I want to try adding a lil oregano oil to their next batch of oatmeal. It tastes pretty nasty so i don't think they would appreciate it being added to their water! Can't imagine it will hurt them any!
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    a ditched rooster

    I wish someone would have been around to record us chasing him around pastures (we didn't know the neighbors had a fishing net we could have used) but thankfully I spend a lot of time here reading so this guy is in one of our dog kennels for the next month getting used to our flock and home. Hes...
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    a ditched rooster

    Thank you! We thought he was pretty too! Not sure why someone would get rid of him but he will go nicely with our black copper marans :)
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