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    Comment by 'llevise' in article 'Chickens & Winter Egg Laying and Lighting'

    They should still start laying for you. You most likely won't get very many eggs but there are a few hens/breeds that will still lay pretty good even without light. Another reason I have a little extra light in my coop is that I get up very early in the morning. I have to get my chores...
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    Comment by 'llevise' in article 'Greyartists Chicken Brooder'

    Hi- I know people who brood outside. I would give a few suggestions, however. The first one is to use 2 sources of heat. If one heat lamp bulb were to burn out, you would lose your birds and lamps tend to not last as long when they are used outside. I also would suggest a different source of...
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    Comment by 'llevise' in article 'Chickens & Winter Egg Laying and Lighting'

    Ellyn, if your hens are in moult they stop laying during that time. Also the cold slows egg laying. They are, in essence, double stressed. Make sure they have access to all the food they want and supplement with higher fat foods likescratch. I live in northern colorado also. In fact, it is about...
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    Ended 170,000 BYC Members? Guess the DAY & HOUR and Win!!!

    March 6, 2013 8:00 am
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    Comment by 'llevise' in article 'Chickens & Winter Egg Laying and Lighting'

    I used to have an organic poultry farm and we used to "split the difference" as chicken newbie put it. We had the light come on at 4:30 every morning. It was turned off when the sun came up and then went back on when the sun set before 6:30pm. That gives 14 hours of light. We used regular...
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    black spots on comb and wattle

    Oh, by the way, pox would start out either white or yellow spots. Dry pox are raised white or clear bumps that turn yellow then red, grey, or black bleeding scabs in clusters. These cans pread to the eyes,head and face, feet and legs and vent. Wet pox bumps start on the face, eyes, throat...
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    My chicken ate some cat food, should I be worried?

    The reasons that I would NEVER feed chicken or other fowl to my chickens are many. Any chicken meat that is grown in commercial operations where animals are crowded, subjected to many diseases and fed a constant diet of drugs , hormones, and antibiotics just to stay alive; well, I sure don't...
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    Mail Order Chicks Dying!!

    Sorry about your experience. I have been raising chicks for my entire life. I have ordered from just about every hatchery there is and 99% of them are good and have healthy chicks. Meyers is one of my favorite hatcheries. When you order chicks, they are taking Baby Birds that just hatched...
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    Ordering baby chicks & adult hens accepting them?

    Most likely your older hens would kill or severely injure chicks. They should not be put together until the chicks are about 4 months old, almost as big as the older hens, and able to defend themselves. Even then there will be pecking and some fighting as a new pecking order is worked out...
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    My chicken ate some cat food, should I be worried?

    i also have supplemented my chickens with cat food. Just make sure it doesn't have chicken in it. That means actually reading the label
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    black spots on comb and wattle

    It's most likely caused by the cold. Every winter I get chickens that get random small dots. The Vaseline on the comb helps if you do it every night, but just like humans, some chickens just get a little colder than others. If the black is on the very edge of the comb, sometimes that part...
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