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    My friend keeps her chicken inside and it poos everywhere!

    Buy her some chicken diapers anyway for the bird and let her know you wont visit anymore due to your health concerns and messes all over but you love her chicken and her and really dont want to not come and visit.
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    Is my hen wheezy?

    could give her fa vaporizer treatment like a little kid, put her in a hole studded plastic tub like at the vets and run a vaporizer with Vicks, maybe 5 minutes and watch and listen daily do as necessary
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    Anyone try to return Producers Pride feed?

    I goofed Producers Feed Co-Op is in Bryan, Texas. Producer's Pride is a trademark owned by TSC, milled at 60 different mills across the country.
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    Should I switch from layer to grower? Hens not laying

    Most folks today dont have any idea about feeds like our forefathers did. They grew what they what they needed for the animal they keep on the farm. Folks just go to the feed store or even Walmart in some places, now for convenience. and buy by cost mostly. Example In the horse world...
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    Should I switch from layer to grower? Hens not laying

    Need to watch chick crumb medicated vs non medicated. Dont medicate the layers. all chickens need a "time off" period. Up north will be more tied to the winter time with less light. Northern folks will get more eggs it they continue with a light in th coop so they are getting more light 12...
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    Just feeding whatever...

    Layers have different needs then youngers or roos. Stick with layer types for your big girls, anything for roos, All Flock just has extra Niacin for Ducks which require more niacin as babies. Roos dont need much cater to your big girls first.
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    Anyone try to return Producers Pride feed?

    Got to remembers about the supply chain problems these last two years. Grain stuff is trained into feed mills, rarely it it totally grown in an area but from all over the country. Each region of country grows something different. Corn could be silo stored for years before use. If your in a grain...
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    Anyone try to return Producers Pride feed?

    As a person who took and Feeds and Feeding class in college, to learn about feeds the real way, the book Morrison's Feed and Feeding, will explain it all. The old way . Producers Pride is a grain mill in College Station Texas. I have been there. , Dumor Grain is actually a sub group of Purina...
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    My (quite short) TSC feed experiment.

    Got to remembers about the supply chain problems these last two years. Grain stuff is trained into feed mills, rarely it it totally grown in an area but from all over the country. Each region of country grows something different. Corn could be silo stored for years before use. If your in a...
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    My (quite short) TSC feed experiment.

    sure, and I goofed Producers is in the next town of Bryan, Texas. Can help get thru this by adding some free choice vitamins and minerals etc . Its kinda like Blue Buffalo dog feed or Iams, you feed about 1 cup to dogs a year old, but Alpo cheap kibble you need to feed 4 cups to the same dog...
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    My (quite short) TSC feed experiment.

    As a person who took and Feeds and Feeding class in college, to learn about feeds the real way, the book Morrison's Feed and Feeding, will explain it all. The old way . Producers Pride is a grain mill in College Station Texas. I have been there. , Dumor Grain is actually a sub group of Purina...
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    Ocean Springs Transplant

    New member but not new to chickens. recently started a new little flock with a new home when I moved to Ocean Springs , Mississippi. Have raised, showed, bred, cleaned, fed just about all the farm animals so far except a donkey but there is hope yet. Animal science trained from college, 40...
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