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    Comment by 'Pokka' in article 'DIY Poopscoop for Poop Boards'

    Nice idea! I too have a question about PDZ, I hope someone could answer. What I've found, it's available as powder or granular. Which of the two is more practical for use in a coop? My gues is the granular type... Could anyone tell me, what size these Sweet PDZ granules are? Where I live...
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    Peeps in Europe!

    Hi to all from Germany too! My flock: 1 Vorwerk, 1 White Sussex, 1 German Sperber, 1 Bovans Black, 1 Maran and 3 Swedisch Flower. This is my fourth year, and like last year I plan to get breeding eggs again as soon as a hen turns broody. Am planning on getting Cream Legbar and Ostfriesian Möwen...
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    What were your worst mistakes when you first started?

    Thank you for the tip, aart! I have just added the location, Northern Europe, to my profile. As far as I know the lawful obligation that exist here to vaccinate against ND is related to the fact that Newcastle Disease can kill chicken as massivly and unspecificly as Avian Influenza does. Avian...
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    What were your worst mistakes when you first started?

    Could you please share with us, what you consider to be 'vaccinating well'? Here I only vaccinate against ND (obliged by law to do so) and IB (since in the same combination-vaccine). When I had a hen brooding eggs, I looked into the possibility of having the chicks vaccinated against Marek...
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    What were your worst mistakes when you first started?

    My worst mistakes: - knowing about lice, but not actually being able to recognize them on a hen, when getting my very first birds. I saw grey balls on some feathers, but didn't realize that they were lice eggs. That single hen infected the 4 other other, clean hens that I got on the same day and...
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    What were your worst mistakes when you first started?

    My advice would be to be busy with/around your chicken as much as possible, so that they get used to you. We have been sitting down with our hens as much as possible, right from the beginning. Not just in the coop and run (that are both high enough to stand in), but also when they are walking...
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    That's an expert talking.... :yesss:
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    To do list: - collect dehumidifying bags from shoeboxes etc. - drill holes in sides of drawerbox, to improve airflow - organise 10.000 mealworms (what wheight would that be, a kilogram?)
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    Here they are kept in the dining room. On the floor, which works very fine thanks to our floor heating. At first my husband was complaning too, by now everybody is used to it.
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    Obviously I need to upscale! What do you use as a water source (and how do you prevent fungus)? I've sofar used pieces of apple, but fungus is a problem here.
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    Thanks for your reaction! That would make sense, as long as I see to it that I on a regular basis remove/exchange the drawer that catches the eggs. That way I could let the mealworms grow up in batches. Perhaps I should get more drawers... With just the 2 drawers with mealworms that I have, I...
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    About 2 years ago I started growing my own mealworms, after noticing how much my hens like these. It's only on a small-scale; I use a system with 3 drawers (1 with beetles, 2 with worms) and I keep the puppae separated from the other stages. The drawer with the beetles in it has a mesh-bottom...
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    Comment by 'Pokka' in article 'Chicken Names list [Over 1,000!]'

    Pokka, Pippa, Pannekoek (Dutch for 'pancake'), Poffel, Pluis, Pletter, Pino, Pletterkwet - all hens (please blame my kids !)
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    Joining from Europe

    Thanks for the welcomes! My difficulties so far: - convincing my children, that some of the older hens will have to leave, before we can have more eggs hatching. I wouldn't have problems slaughtering them myself, but the kids are not going to like that. All chicks that I had left over so far...
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    Joining from Europe

    Hi, I am Pokka and I have joined BYC from northern Europe. During the last years I have visited BYC already a number of times, looking for information. I own 8 hens and understand chicken math. Year 1: started with 1 Vorwerk chicken, 1 White Sussex, 1 German Sperber, 1 Bovans Black. I learned...
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