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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    You know what else? Remember last year when we debated on the sex of chicks from FF fed hens? Well, a dozen hatches later, and my pullet to cockerel ration was off the charts - 3-4 times as many pullets as cockerels per hatch or better. Don't know just how 'scientific' the results are but I'll...
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    Yep, Bee, we plan to can a LOT of the meat this year - saves SO much room in the freezer! And my husband loves it canned! Gun season opened here yesterday, so we have 10 days to fill 4 tags!! Boy, the eggs and the meat are fabulous - that is an added bonus to the healthy birds you get on FF...
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    Introdcing new chickens

    I have found over and over again that the best way to intermingle adult birds is to put the new birds on the roost with your established flock in the middle of the night. Of course, I mean after your period of quarantine - which you should ALWAYS have with new birds coming in - is over. They all...
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    Waste Disposal

    IS your chicken poop mixed with straw/sawdust/etc from the run? We put our straw from under the roosts (that is full of the chicken poop ) on the garden all winter long and pile it in the compost area in the other months. Over winter, like right now, it goes directly onto the garden and the...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Yes, you can freeze them. And the chickens will like the pumpkin even better for having been frozen - freezing it brings out the sugars in it! They go nuts for it!
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    MMcM - Exotic what am I? & Review

    My Silver Spangled Hamburg chicks from MMcM hatchery looked a LOT like that if IRC.
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    100% free-ranging

    I agree with HEchicken. In the winter, even in VA, the ground gets cold and lots of the creepy-crawlies that chickens depend on for their protein go deep as well and are not available to the chickens. I'd supplement through the winter, and during molt. Otherwise, if they look happy and healthy...
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    Feeding crushed egg shells for calcium?

    x2!!
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    Hey Bee! Been too busy raising the flock and working the farm but since it is a rainy, blustery day here I thought I'd check in. I'm into 2 years now with my flock on the fermented feed, STILL using the SAME original bucket I started with (it has never been restarted, only added to all this...
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    Free Range & baby chicks

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    How do you introduced baby Chicks to full grown hens?

    As usual, Ridgerunner is full of wisdom and good advice. I learned sooooo much from the OTs (old timer) here, they really know their stuff. I've had a dozen or so successful hatches now, all because when I first found BYC the first thing I did was devour the original OT thread, the HLF...
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    CSU - Chicken State University- Large Fowl SOP

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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    My goodness, I had to take some time away from the computer around the holidays and I didn't think I would EVER get caught back up!! But I've finally finished reading the last month's worth of posts. Bob, I just can't thank you enough for this thread. I have learned soooooo much here, and I...
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