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    Finish this sentence: "You know you're addicted to chickens when..."

    Good one RTW - I never thought of that one, thanks lol
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    My girls Hen House and pen - we utilised an old cubby house that came in 50,000 seperate pieces and we had to put it back together like a jigsaw puzzle. We have used vermin proof mesh as we have a problem with snakes visiting our yard - guardas!! (brown snakes I think) My girls inside their...
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    What are your favorite treats to grow for your birds?

    Littleflocker, silly me, I had no idea there was another WA!!! I live in WA (Western Australia) in Australia. A long way from where you live......good luck with your gardening anyway.
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    What are your favorite treats to grow for your birds?

    Hi littleflocker I am also in WA but on the coast of mid west not far from Geraldton. I grow lettuce, cherry tomatoes, spinach, sunflowers, bok choy and anything else I can get to grow for my girls. They particularly love lettuce and if I split the cherry tomatoes open for them they love them...
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    Laying egg off of roosting pole!!!!

    Hi Chickens? WOW. I have just been through the same thing with one of my girls but she laid hers either during the night or very early in the morning and luckily my hens didn't eat the egg BUT IT DID BREAK . I had three eggs like that. I have put some fake eggs back in the nesting box (I had...
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    Help Tiny Egg

    Phewwww I was so worried
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    Help Tiny Egg

    Have your girls ever laid a teeny weeny egg????? I tried to insert a picture here but couldn't. It is about the same size as my thumb nail and I am a female. Is it normal for them to lay such a tiny egg every now and again. I am worried as I am not experienced with chickens yet and i am...
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    Please help, broken eggs, not laying in nest box

    Thanks folks. Unfortunately I can't do the deep litter method. I have thought about making the nests more private so I will give that one a go and I did have fake eggs in the nests but once they started laying I took them out but I might just have to put them back in. All suggestions are very...
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    Please help, broken eggs, not laying in nest box

    Any suggestions/advice please. I have 3 australorps who are all laying well at the moment BUT one is laying her eggs from the perch and not in the nest box. It has happened 3 days in a row and two had smashed. I have now lifted up their poop tray a bit higher by putting it on top of a box and...
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    harvesting ...... poop (for compost)

    I have found out quickly how fresh poop can burn things as I rinsed off my poop trays on the lawn and now I have all dead patches on what was once green lawn, oopsy. I am sure it will green up again soon
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    how often to feed fresh greens.

    Thanks for the great idea Kassaundra
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    how often to feed fresh greens.

    I think I will have to get brave and ask our grocer the question, thanks
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    how often to feed fresh greens.

    Wow, wonderful, how lucky are you and your chicks, it would cost me a fortune to spoil my girls like that. You definitely have a great arrangement there, well done.
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    how often to feed fresh greens.

    sorry missed that bit, thank you.
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    how often to feed fresh greens.

    KDK1 - how many chickens do you have for that amount of food per day, just curious??
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