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    How do you feed your Rooster(s)?

    Related question- I read somewhere you could offer free feed corn or other grain and the roo would self regulate their protein and choose to eat proper amounts of both- is this true?
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    How to feed a corn free, soy free diet cost effectively?

    Ps I have been told I have bougie chickens because they don’t like foraging lol. Those Buff Orphingtons would rather beg for snacks then look for bugs. I already stopped free feeding them and now they scratch more but still beg at any chance. They have learned to to come up to the patio and look...
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    How to feed a corn free, soy free diet cost effectively?

    Thanks for the heads up on the amaranth. I actually planted it for leaves for the humans to replace spinach - which were great. I kinda let it go once the caterpillars got to the leaves. Thinking I’ll just chop the whole thing down and put it in the run once the seed heads come in.
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    How to feed a corn free, soy free diet cost effectively?

    Thank you all for the feedback. Reason for chicken diet change is dog (who gets some eggs) has highly aggressive lymphoma so we are trying to change diet to help in any way. May or may not help but it is worth at least trying. Upon further probing, the corn free and soy free is actually so...
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    How to feed a corn free, soy free diet cost effectively?

    That’s my main issue with growing grains is that the harvest is so challenging. The cow peas I can do by hand fairly easy.im sure I’ll change my tune once I harvest more then 10 lbs of cow peas by hand lol
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    How to feed a corn free, soy free diet cost effectively?

    For the health of those eating eggs, I’d like to switch my chickens ( 3 hen 1 roo) to a corn free soy free food. I’m a-ok to make it myself and have sufficient space to grow food within reason. I’m having issues cost effectively sourcing wheat and other grains. I’m in south Florida so not much...
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    Roundworms and Capillaria worms treat every 10 days or daily?

    I have Buff Ophingtons who according to my scale were about 3.5lbs so I gave a bit less than 1ml for chicken.
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    Roundworms and Capillaria worms treat every 10 days or daily?

    Thank you! They are going to be very mad at me lol
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    Roundworms and Capillaria worms treat every 10 days or daily?

    My wonderful dog vet less wonderfully diagnosed my dogs and chickens with roundworms and capillaria. She treated the dogs but is not a chicken vet so that is on me. I got panacur and dosed the girls. I read for the roundworms it is every 10 days of treatment but for the capillaria it is every...
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    Wormy chicken poop compost

    I had been putting my chicken poop (along with other things) in my compost pile. I have found out that the chickens have round worms and cappilariea worms- should I dump the compost or will it be safe to use eventually? It is a slow pile and not particularly hot.
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    Fire Ant Baits- How long to keep chickens out of area?

    I could pick the baits up I suppose. I think I will always need some kind of bait and a contact killer because there are so many and they are so mean!
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    Fire Ant Baits- How long to keep chickens out of area?

    After a run in with a fire ant mound and a very uncomfortable ant bitten foot- I put down 4 ant bait boxes. The majority of the ants are around the concrete pad under our shed. I have put DE all over and have been spraying as I see them. The chicken food is in the shed but is in air tight...
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    Can quail tractors be placed on areas where chickens were?

    That is actually a really good idea
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    Can quail tractors be placed on areas where chickens were?

    Without
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    (Well-meaning) human predators in the chicken run, Oh No!

    I would put up a padlock on cage. I would also print a sign explaining some dos and don'ts and you can even list some foods the chickens like. Often times I find telling kids what they can do is better then telling them what they can't do.
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