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    Review by 'lsonderling' in article 'Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥'

    Good info overall but could be more informative about some things. We have used PawHuts as brooders. They are spacious, easy to maintain, and fold up after the chicks are old enough to move out. There is also plenty of room for a heat lamp at one end and the chicks will place themselves...
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    Massive corn shortage expected in 2022. Tips for long term storage of feed?

    Mock Mill Grain Mill is great. I bought a Model 200 for my wife and she uses it for grinding all kinds of grain for baking. The grind is adjustable from coarse to fine. mockmill.us for info, available from many sellers including the manufacturer. Not cheap ($395) but well worth it. They...
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    Massive corn shortage expected in 2022. Tips for long term storage of feed?

    Most grocery stores throw away a lot of vegetable trimmings every day. We get a large carton (free) from our local market and the chicks love it. It’s mostly lettuce trimmings but often includes other things as well. Just be careful to sort out anything that might be dangerous for them to eat.
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    Comment by 'lsonderling' in article 'Things I wish I knew before I got my first chick'

    The Newcastle restriction for Southern California was lifted in June 2020.
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    Interesting chicken behaviors

    Turns out that Little Frieda is now Freddy, a very handsome rooster, as are his siblings Andy and Tuxedo. We thought at first that they were all female!
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    Interesting chicken behaviors

    We're seeing some interesting behaviors lately. Our engineer chicken Oscar (pictured in a post above) seems to understand verbal instructions. In the mornings he has a habit of pulling out hens from their nest boxes to mate. Today I saw him about to do that to Luna (our smallest hen, a...
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    Interesting chicken behaviors

    We have begun seeing some unusual behaviors in our teenage chickens. We have nine adult hens and three adult roosters plus 4 young and 8 teenage chicks. The teenagers are five Buckeyes age about 10 weeks, and three hatched here age about 9 weeks. The young ones are three also hatched here age...
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    Do chickens have a sense of humor?

    Our head rooster Falstaff has developed an odd whistling that sounds like a leaky pipe. He does not have any kind of blockage in his throat; he appears to do this for amusement and has taught the other roosters to imitate him. He also sings the "egg song" and seems to encourage the other...
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