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    Sumatra Thread!

    Not yet...camera's in the pawn shop. Probably next week. Body is like a Buckeye, wings even darker...head & tail black w/ that green shimmer to it in the sunlight.
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    Sumatra Thread!

    I finally got a response to my letter to Sandhill Preservation in January about the "Auburn Sumatras" he included in my chick order last year. Here's what he had to say: "Auburns came out of the Frizzles. I don't know what Klaus used to make the Frizzle Blacks. Can send a box of 25 for $30...
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    Moving a broody hen

    Hey, Johnn! Were yours off the floor? My main worry is that the nests are up off the floor and the chicks falling out, even though there's a wood slate rail across the front...
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    Moving a broody hen

    I've searched and couldn't find anything on this...I've got 3 broody hens; I tried to move two of them off of the egg nests into a separate pen, locking them in individual nests for two days, but they abandoned ship as soon as I let them out & wouldn't set, so I turned them back into the flock &...
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    When will they restart to lay?

    They all shut down in early November...8 eggs total in 3 months...now the sunlight's up to 9 hours & I've changed from a pelleted feed to COB mixed w/ pea screenings (includes lentils, wheat, etc.) & 6 (out of 31) have started back at it...including 3 of the pullets!
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    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    Good points. But I, for one, am trying to come up with an alternative (home-made) feed, for several reasons: primarily because I don't know what's in the pelleted feed; if it contains GMO grains, where it's sourced from (I prefer to buy as locally as possible); and a preference to be as...
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    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    Maybe they don't like the cayenne pepper? I know that when I put mine through the garden this fall, they avoided all the hot peppers.
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    Everyone, post your best homemade chicken feed recipes!

    I'd like to see answers to these questions, too!
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    Mixed Flock or Not?

    Thanks, Photoman! Just what I needed in info!
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    Mixed Flock or Not?

    Perhaps a battery-powered camp light? I've got 31 hens - no eggs! 17 are pullets from this past May, of arious breeds, including Auburn Sumatras, mixed breeds & such. We're in the banana belt in Idaho, it hasn't gotten below 20 this winter so far. I'm getting upset w/ no eggs at all - I was...
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    Mixed Flock or Not?

    What can be used if you're off-grid, to extend the hours?
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    Mixed Flock or Not?

    Do you live in Idaho? I'm in North Central ID - I'd say one possibility would be to find others near you & swap - I just got 19 of various breeds from a couple that are getting divorced, added to my 17 I had...I put up the netting, opened up the various pens & the converted horse-trailer & just...
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    Sumatra Thread!

    I'm trying to figure out how to do this off-grid. Any ideas? I don't think any type of 12-volt light would do any good?
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    Mixed Flock or Not?

    I ordered a set of 'mystery chickens' from SandHills Preservation in Iowa - 25 chickens of his genetic crossbreedings (he sells lots of different heritage breeds) as something to get started on before getting Buckeyes. go 14 of them, and then (since he didn't have a full 25) he tossed in a...
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    Sumatra Thread!

    FMP = Very pretty birds!
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