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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    Yep and no pigs :) There is a clause stating you can appeal the rooster law - you have to bring a bunch of supportive neighbors and state your case - I know one person who did it successfully.
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    Yep - sounds like no one knows what they are doing - haha. The man I spoke with was the head of the Board of Health and he just said each city/town has it's own poultry regulations - never mentioned anything else, so as far as I know - no one other than my friends and neighbors know I have...
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    Hmmm - I never heard of this? I'm in Hudson - I called the Town Hall and asked the appropriate person who emailed me the town animal ordinances - he didn't even ask who I was or how many chickens I had or anything.
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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    I"m in Hudson - here we can have as many chickens as we want, but no roosters. No other rules. I've seen people with chickens in Marlborough, but don't know anyone specifically - Just give a call to city hall and ask what the chicken laws are - For me I think it was the Dept. of Health - good...
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    my pet chicken reviews

    I got mine in the same batch as you - May 6? Mine (7 girls) are 20 weeks also - my gold sex link (golden buff) also laid her 1st egg at 17 weeks and has laid every day except 1 - the day after she missed she laid a double yolker - yes this freaks me out a little bit too - big burnout concerns...
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    Green Mountain Soy Free Layer

    Every time I go - the wonderful older man laughs at me and tells me to just get Purina - he thinks all the "organic" people are crazy :)
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    Green Mountain Soy Free Layer

    OK - just got back from Eriksons ... GM soy-free is $27.98 - GM regular is $28.98 Where are you? I'm in Hudson
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    Green Mountain Soy Free Layer

    Not sure (I've only gotten 1 bag and don't recall price since I got it with a bunch of other stuff) - I'm getting more tomorrow morning (it's in - yay!) so will let you know exact cost then :)
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    Green Mountain Soy Free Layer

    I MUST be selling well - they (Erikson Grain Mill - MA) were sold out last week .... Thank goodness I have enough to last until they get more!
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    Green Mountain Soy Free Layer

    Great to hear! I only have 1 laying (6 are almost there - 19 weeks old). She started 10 days ago and has missed only 1 day (followed by a double yolk egg) - They love the GM feed :)
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    There are definitely different schools of thought on natural plant estrogens in people/animal diets - the body metabolizes them differently - In my experience, flax is not a bad thing - especially organic golden flax :)
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    Green Mountain Soy Free Layer

    Thank you so much for your quick reply - I think I'll do that. Since I only have 7 chickens, I store the unused feed in the freezer in plastic bins, so doubling up when I buy feed and then mixing the 2 together and storing in freezer should work just fine. And thanks for relieving my calcium...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Thank you for the welcome - and when I read back, I see you did answer my question - force feeding calcium (via layer feed) is not a great idea at anytime! Thank you - need to rethink this :)
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    We've been having this canola - soy free discussion on another board. I just switched to Green Mtn. Organic Layer and here is what Eric who makes this feed said We do add DL Methionine to the ration. And it does help to keep the Canola meal to a minimum. Thing is, we are regulated on the...
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    Green Mountain Soy Free Layer

    Thank you so much for peeking in here and answering our questions :) My girls are just at point of lay and are totally switched over to your Green Mtn. soy-free. So far so good! Quick question - I'm not totally against soy, just don't want so much of it, so I'm thinking of getting one bag...
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