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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    If you got your boots on there are few tricks you can try that may teach him who is boss. I had a RIR and he got aggressive. So I would walk right at him and make him move whenever I was near him. I made sure he felt like I was pushing him around. i just kept walking at him until he would...
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    Can a chicken lay more than one egg a day?

    thanks for this thread. I have 5 hens and collected 5 eggs yesterday evening. I went out today and there were 8 eggs in the nest. I read the same stuff you guys have that it takes about 1 day to produce an egg so I was confused. Glad to know it can happen
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    Hello neighbor and welcome. I am a transplant from the city and enjoying living in Wood County with 2 Rhode Islands, 2 barred Rock and my favorite a Buckeye
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    welcome Milbury. I am in Luckey. But Much smaller than your operation. I only have 5 hens
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    for the record I got mine from Meyer hatchery. If you are ordering mail order you need to buy a certain amount. If you drive down then you can get any amount you want. Three of us went down and we got a total of 18 birds. One died a couple weeks later but the rest have survived. We ordered...
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    Anybody want a RIR rooster come get him. He will be a year old in may. He looks great except for a little bit of frostbite on his comb. He is great with the flock. He loves to find food and call the hens over, sometimes he will pick the food up and take it to them. i only have 5 hens and he...
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    -20 below wind chill last night. No heat in the coop. The hens were excited to get out of the coop this morning. Had to change the water a few times but other than that they were all good. Except the rooster did not like me feeding the hens a treat and he came at me a few times. when I took...
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    There first sight of snow and wind today. Opened the coop and they were afraid to come out. they slid a little down the steps and turned around and went back in. I threw scratch out but they wouldn't come out. I did throw some in the coop and they loved having it inside. I went in the run...
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    Need help to identify the predator

    last week a friend of ours watched a hawk come down and take the head right off one of his chickens. with it being during the daytime and you living near the woods i would have them as a prime suspect. its not 100pct but normally a possum, coon, owl or mink will get them at night. Coyote...
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    OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

    I am in northwest Ohio and have had several days in the 20's. birds seem to be doing fine with no artificial heat. I have researched both sides of the argument and I don't plan on using any artificial heat and was wondering how you other Buckeyes did last year with your birds when it was -20...
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    Modifying Amount of Scratch Grains in Winter ?

    I apologize if my statement caused any misconceptions about scratch. The question posed did not ask about scratch with BOSS added to it.The fact that BOSS needs to be added to scratch proves the point. Scratch is not a complete feed as mentioned by talkalittle. The milling process removes a...
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    Modifying Amount of Scratch Grains in Winter ?

    It is my understanding that scratch grains in the winter are helpful to the chickens. It supposedly causes their bodies to warm while they are digesting the food. It is for that reason that many recommend feeding them scratch right before putting them to bed. It does not provide much if any...
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    predators

    If you put wood down in the run it will eventually rot. You would not want to use treated lumber either. Those hens spend a lot of time scratching and if there is anything under their they will eventually get down to it. That means splinters. You are not going to keep mice out because the...
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    When will my rhode island reds start laying?

    I have 2 RIR and they were hatched at the end of May. They have been laying for a few weeks now and I expected it to taper off since we had the time change and it is getting colder here in Northern OHIO. I have no supplemental lighting and they are still cranking out an egg a day sometimes...
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    weird egg

    I leave a cup of oyster shell for them to eat at their leisure. I have had 3 incidents recently. One was just a yolk and two other times they were very thin shells. Those were from hens that just started laying though. Sorry I have no other ideas.
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