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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    My $1000 egg because that's how much my chicken coop cost! It has been years since I've had chickens and how sweet it is.
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    Does DE affect composting? And do I even need it?

    There are two kinds of DE. One is processed for use in swimming pool filters and the other is processed for insect control. The latter acts like tiny pieces of glass and grinds up or cuts up the insects exoskeleton. It becomes harmless when is gets wet so I don't understand why one would not...
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    Do I have to give oyster shell?

    I would never ever feed my hens egg shells no matter how finely the shells are ground up. I did that once and had nothing but problems with the hens pecking their eggs. I had to get rid of the whole bunch and start over.
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    Scratch vs milo

    My hens won't eat the cracked corn in the scratch but they eat everything else. Someone suggested I feed them milo. Any thoughts out there?
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    Feeding the chickens pumpkins??

    You bet you can feed them pumpkins. I sell them at my business and feed the leftover ones to the flock as a treat. I break them up with a shovel and let the hens at it. If your pumpkin is soft to where it's moldy toss it. Don't feed it to them unless you would eat it.
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    Using old wood to build a coop????... PICS

    Heck yeah, as long as it doesn't have lead paint. Wood is wood!
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    Mean roo

    I have 6 RIR hens about 3 mos old. Someone gave me a young roo about 5-6 mos old. He was red with green tail feathers. Within a couple days he bit a hole in the back of the neck one of the hens. Of course the other hens joined in the pecking. I isolated the injured bird, got it healed up and...
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