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    No eggs, help!

    i had to go out of town for three weeks so DW has been taking care of things....she told me they were laying less and less...,.we discussed diet changes etc. nothing has changed.....i was changing their water and feeding them this morning when i noticed their grit box was empty. don't know...
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    No eggs, help!

    this is my first season with chickens. i have six hens and was getting 20-24 eggs a week. sometimes 5 in one day...sometimes 3 or 4. in the last month egg production has dropped to one a day and my maran hasn't laid in a week. blue wyandottes are the only ones producing. brown leghorns...
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    What do you grow to feed the chickens??

    sorghum, cool... i have a few growing around my yard, in my garden, some sprouted in my container pants. More chicken food. I love when random plants appear...Usually in my compost bins and piles. Never seen this before, but my DW throws uneaten parakeet, and love bird seed out when she...
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    What do you grow to feed the chickens??

    Do you wait until the tomatoes are just starting to turn color or can you do them whenever they look big enough? I have two huge plants that have lots, lots of two - three inch green tomatoes. Only two have gone full term and they were about 4 inches before they started to ripen. Always...
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    Arizona Chickens

    brown recluse?
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    Arizona Chickens

    Absolutely......Green chiles are my cure-all. The hotter, the better....sweat all the toxins out. I eat them as preventative medicine.
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    is my dog guilty

    So....how do you train fido to leave the birds alone? My coop is located where I can look out the window and see what's going on. When I first brought home chicks, 4 were immediately trashed by a visitor's dog. (My fault, unsecured brooder) After that, I moved the brooder intothe run...
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    Who's Confused?

    A mutt....I'm good with that, I really don't care what they are as long as they are good producers. Diet doesn't affect egg color I assume. They get quite a bit of variety besides their regular feed. Right on schedule, they're 20 weeks old. What about size? Do they start out small and...
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    Who's Confused?

    My first experience with chickens is adventurous...and confusing. I finally got my first egg today. Don't know who laid it. I have 3 brown leghorns that are supposed to lay white eggs, two blue wyandottes that are supposed to lay brown eggs, and a cuckoo maran that is supposed to lay...
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    BYC gardening thread!!

    Yes your chickens will eat that caterpillar...My chooks eat every bug, slug, and critter that moves in the run. When sifting, turning compost I pick out slugs and stuff and when i have a handful i chuck them into the run and they get devoured before they have a chance to move. Same with squash...
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    BYC gardening thread!!

    We have cottontails, roadrunners, quail, occasionally javelina and coyotes, but nothing (so far) that messes with my garden except WILDBIRDS. I have to get some netting or something...They eat my beet tops as fast as they sprout. So I started them in a greenhouse and replanted them after they...
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    BYC gardening thread!!

    I love the pics of other lawns and gardens.. It makes me envious, however, because I live in Arizona (Arid-zone-a) where very little is green. Brown is our "state-color". Hot, Dry, low humidity. An abundance of sunshine, little or no precipitation. Lousy, treated municipal water. But, we...
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    VERMIPOSTERS beware...

    I have been raising worms for my garden for a couple of years and love it. I spoil my worms by giving them lots of spoiled fruits and veggies...and am rewarded with lots of worm castings. Also like the fact that they are low-maintenance, (feed them and add moist bedding once a week)...
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    What are your rooster's names?

    Thurston and Skipper. Named all my chicks after Gilligan Island Cast members except one "Lucy". Wouldn't you know "thurston" turned out to be a roo and the "skipper" too. Thurston is now history, as of 5 a.m. no Crowing allowed. Tomorrow, the "skipper" will b e joining him. I must be...
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    Chickens Not Allowed, Going to Anyway.

    The neighborhood I have lived in for the last 25 years is right on the outskirts of town....Since I moved here they have developed a few more areas adjacent to us, just across a two-lane state road. These properties are zoned multi-use and house everything from emus, llamas, horses, cows pigs...
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