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    What not to Feed Chickens?

    Yes, they love cooked onion. They tend to ignore raw onion, but I've got one old girl who hovers over it and eats the flys that come to investigate.
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    What not to Feed Chickens?

    Mine get everything and I've never had a problem. We literally scrape our plates after every meal into a little chook feed bin which gets emptied each day into a dirt feed area. The chooks scratch and push and eat what they want and leave what they don't. Every couple of weeks I scrape the top...
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    June Hatch-A-Long! (Blue Ameraucanas for me!)

    I LOVE your egg colours! What breeds are they from? Especially the grey/brown ones in the front each end. I have blue and blue/green eggs from Araucana and EE crosses. And I'm about to set Black Copper Marans eggs after my French Wheaton Marans eggs last year resulted in 3 roosters!
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    What breed for 2 or 3 wk old mystery chicks?

    ok, will get new photos every couple of weeks
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    What breed for 2 or 3 wk old mystery chicks?

    Ok, I've got some better photos in natural light, side, front and back.
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    What breed for 2 or 3 wk old mystery chicks?

    I'll get some better photos in the morning. The auction just had them listed as assorted chicks.
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    Ways to separate chicks while hatching

    If you see each one hatching you can put leg tags on them. I use the flat wrap around leg rings when they first hatch to keep track of who's who. I've also heard of people staggering the hatch dates, putting each breed in 2 days apart.
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    What breed for 2 or 3 wk old mystery chicks?

    I bought these two chicks at auction just to keep my single hatchling company but I have no idea what breed they are. Any guesses? I got them a week ago and they seemed about a week or two old then.
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    Cayenne Pepper It Really Gets Those Hens Laying

    I have my vegie garden in the middle of the chook's yard. It's a raised garden in a U shape with wire fencing around the outside and a gate at the open in the U. Without this, the chooks would decimate it. They've eaten the rest of the yard bare, down to dust, but I've managed to get some hardy...
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    Topic of the Week - Feeding table scraps to your flock

    Down here in warm, sunny Australia, I have 9 hens of various breeds and 3 roosters (2 still young, just starting to crow). They have 24 hr access to feed crumbles (gravity feeder) and separate shell grit. And open access to the whole front yard (my vegie garden is fenced off in the middle)...
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    Sexing French Maran chicks, advice please

    Thanks, cracked the egg and sure enough, no yolk.
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    Sexing French Maran chicks, advice please

    Ummmmm? I think one of my Marans roosters? just laid an egg? Just found this egg. It's quite dark but only small, 22g. I have 3 Isa Brown/Australorpe that are 3 years old that regularly lay big eggs like the left one. I have 3 Araucana that are 7 months old and laying little blue eggs and...
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    Sexing French Maran chicks, advice please

    Thanks centrachid, drumstick diva, henny1129 for advice. Guess I'll keep one and try again with some more Marans eggs. (big sigh)
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    Sexing French Maran chicks, advice please

    I've got a new photo, hopefully it makes it easier to tell. Orange ring (middle) has light tan feathers coming through on the back of the head, as does purple (right) but green (left) seem to have dark head feathers. All their combs seem to be the same size. They're 5 weeks old here.
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    Sexing French Maran chicks, advice please

    Hi, I'm in Australia. I've hatched 3 French Maran chicks but I'm worried they might all be roosters. They're three weeks old in these photos. Can anybody advise me?
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