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    feeding chickens chia seed gel?

    Does anyone have any experience giving chia seed gel to chickens? I have heard it is better than flax for omega 3s and has lots of calcium. I was wondering if this would be a good supplement to my flocks diet.
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    Feeding chickens mostly kitchen scraps?

    I would also suggest giving them nutritional yeast and kelp meal as a supplement daily sprinkled across the scraps that would cover all your vitamins and minerals daily. they love clover and encountering that to grow in your yard would help supplement there diet.
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    Feeding chickens mostly kitchen scraps?

    People have been raising chickens a long time before starter, grower, and layer feed came about. My neighbor across the street has 5bantams that strictly free range and get scraps. they seem to be healthy and happy. I would suggest getting a large bag of oats from the feed store and mixing that...
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    help! Baby chicks foot falling off!

    thank you guys for all of your support! I felt like I had done so much research and never come across this before. I wish I had known. I really appreciate the encouragement, I feel so bad about this.
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    help! Baby chicks foot falling off!

    they are suppose to fall off? That makes me feel slightly better thank you. I still feel like a failure of a chicken momma. So culling is probably best? she has seemed in fair spirits despite her foot. But its only been a few hours. My husband said the wild chickens where he is from lose legs...
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    help! Baby chicks foot falling off!

    I am new here, even though I've been a reader for a long time and hope I posted this in an okay spot. I have 3week old Americana chicks that I've had 2weeks. I've been watching them close. But, I've still made an awful mistake. I noticed when I first got them one had a band around its ankle and...
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