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    Best feed for older, non-laying chickens

    My girls are older and done laying eggs. I want them to have a long healthy life as pets. What's the best feed?
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    Official BYC Poll: How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens?

    I was watching a TV show about sustainable food and the guest said, “If everyone would have chickens in their backyard instead of dogs. . .” and it got me thinking. Then, without prompting, a cute little coop popped up on my computer screen while searching for something else and the rest is...
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    Is she done?

    Thank you! She seems healthy. Last year her sister Penny molted big time. I was looking for the dead body under all of the feathers. Peep just dropped a few feathers. She's dropped a few this year. Could this just be her style of molting?
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    Is she done?

    My two and a half year old Rhode Island Red caught a case of poultry pox this summer, self diagnosed due to a black spot on her comb. She was stressed and stopped laying. That was a few months ago. She seems to have recovered, but is not laying. Will she ever resume laying? Or is she done?
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