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    Adding wild bird feed

    I am thinking about adding a bag of wild bird (seeds) in with my layer crumble. I will using 200lbs of chicken feed and was wondering how much bird feed to add to that to have a added treat in their feed. They love the seeds when I use it as scratch. Any suggestions pro or con to this would be...
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    Any Hatching buddies out there? set 6/20 tonite with more coming!!!!

    I have 20 eggs in the bator now. most are brahams and I have a few that are black jersey giants. They are due to hatch on the 26th all seem to be fertile and starting to develop.
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    just set 4 pea eggs and 4 more tomarrow any one with me?

    I will be putting 14 eggs in the incubator tomorrow. Not sure how many are good eggs the person I got them from said they all should be less than 2 weeks old. this will be my first time incubating eggs. Any advice or suggestions would be great. Thank you Philip
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    Chickens and goats together in electric net fence?

    I have 4 goats in with my chickens. The goats sometimes try to headbutt the chickens but they move to quick. They have been in the same pen for about 4 months with no problems. Don't know anything about the fencing you talked about we have ours in a chain link fence. Also the goats have been...
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    new layers

    How long does it normally take for the chickens to start laying large eggs? Ours are laying small eggs still, she starting laying about 6 weeks ago. Thank you
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    FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

    is this the right area to find help with figuring out what breeds I have? I bought 9 chcikens from a lady that had no idea what she had. Told me some where RIR but the older they get I dont think they are. I also have a few that I am starting to wonder if they are roos instead of hens.
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    FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

    New to BYC. I live in Palmetto, Fl looking for a good place to talk with other people that raise chickens. Thinking I might have found a good place here. I am new to raising chickens but my girl friend and I started off pretty big for us. We have 27 chickens ranging from around 3 months to 3...
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    Any Floridians?

    New to BYC. and new to chickens. I am in the bradenton,fl area. Is there anyone on here thats close to my area?
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