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    How to mix my own chicken food

    I am trying to mix my own layer feed based of crushed barley. What should I be using ?🤔 PLEASE HELP ME 🙏.
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    Getting rid of my rooster (guilt)

    Here's an idea. Put a add up for the roo and see if anyone wants a challenge. Be sure that they understand that he's hard to deal with. BUT DONT FEEL BAD. You're kid comes first chickens are wonderful but they are chickens .
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    Getting chicks need advice

    Thanks for the advice.All 29 made . I put them in a metal band and they had a lot of fun playing in the dirt. I'm in Alberta Canada and out side temperatures were in the 90ties .
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    Getting chicks need advice

    I got my chickens 4 days ago there so cute 😍 I even got 4 extra. Anyway I was wondering are they old enough to have a roost . It's just that they keep sleeping on there poop and it's getting stuck in there butt fluff. Another question how much light do they need? The hatchery said 23 hours of...
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    New breeds advice needed

    Thanks
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    New breeds advice needed

    Thanks
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    New Hampshire vs Rhode Island Red

    I have never had NH so take this with a grain of salt but RIR are amazing truly super nice and really reliable.
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    New breeds advice needed

    Hi I just got 5 booted bantam and two Easter Eggers. They are young just starting to lay. I would like to tame them there very wild . I do have some experience working with old bird. But not young birds and not anything super fancy. Just wondering if any one as any advice?
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    Chicken's leg had died please help

    Sorry no pictures her foot fell of. All the toes and the main foot what should I do?
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    Getting chicks need advice

    Thanks so much
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    Getting chicks need advice

    Hello I am getting chicks for the first time. I have had chickens for awhile now but never baby chicks wondering what I could do for a brooder and just basic stuff about raising chicks. Please send advice. I live near a small town in Alberta Canada and am going to order from a hatchery hopefully...
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    Chicken's leg had died please help

    Update she is losing skin of the foot
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    Chicken's leg had died please help

    My hen started limping about three weeks ago and it turned out that her foot had cracked we found this out from a neighbor who also gave us some antibiotics we did just like she told us and even put her in a dog cage in the house. After the first few treatments it didn't seem to pain her. Last...
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    dead chickens sad

    I know what you mean! My last luttel hen was always the bottom of the pecking order and when I went to feed her the day after the last bird died she just grabbed the first peace in reach and ran away with it so nobody would take it it broke my heart she could have it all but she didn't realize...
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    Alberta breeds

    Hi I am 13 and live in a small town in alberta Canada. Wondering if any body has any suggestions for egg birds that will be both cold and heat hardy I have a lost a lot of birds so I want to make sure that I get climate appropriate breeds.
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