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    2014 BYC Calendar - Your Pictures Needed!

    My Rhode Island Red, Penny, and my Black Australorp, Thelma. They day they joined our family this spring. Goldie in the early spring. She was the kind of gal who made chicken people out of people who otherwise don't really think much of chickens. We lost her shortly after this picture...
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    SPIRULINA do you feed it to your chickens?

    I have given my ladies the Sea Kelp from Treats for Chickens before. But I can't quite justify the cost, especially of the shipping. Having a bunch of spirulina around that I bought for much less from Nuts Online, I was wondering if it would give similar benefits as the Sea Kelp. Stands to...
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    One of my hens has stopped laying

    In a related issue: when one hen is molting, do other hens sometimes stop laying too? I can't figure out why one of my hens has stopped laying. It's winter, and production is down a bit from my small flock, but this one hen hasn't given any in almost 2 weeks. I have searched the free range area...
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    Raising Guinea Fowl 101

    This is a great thread! Thank you! I have 2 questions. one about noise and one about predators. I'm thinking about getting 2 Guineas to help protect my small backyard flock. I appreciate your honesty if they are right for us. Q1) This is a true backyard: middle of neighborhood, albeit a woodsy...
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    Whats the weirdest thing your chickens have eaten or tried to eat??

    LOL- last night we were installing an additional nesting box. My husband, crouched over, had his bottom pecked at repeatedly and he yelped in dismay, "why in the world are they trying to eat my bum!?" It took us a while to catch on, but as it turns out his bike shorts (he was fresh off a bike...
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    Pecking order - caring for the chicken at the bottom

    I'm also having an integration problem. I had 4 hens, hatched last October, and added 3 more, which were hatched this spring. Now, at 20 weeks (they are big- especially the Wyandottes) they are still being bullied my my other ladies so that I worry about their health in the warm weather and...
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    What do I do with all the chicken poo?

    I have closed compost bins. One is a very large square unit and one is a set of two smaller rollers. Since the ladies came into our lives it hasn't smelled because we add the poo and bits of pine shavings and hay that are used in the hen house and run (shavings in hen house, hay in run). That...
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    How to make Chickens to lay in nesting box...

    Thanks for the thread. Just recently, one of my hens has been laying most of her eggs outside of the nesting boxes. I am pretty sure I know who she is, and I have reason to believe that she is being bullied out of the nesting boxes by my dominant hen. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to...
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    Have you ever had a group of chickens that's just smarter than the rest?

    I don't know, but I will tell you my ladies listen to me better than my children do. Does that mean they are smart or very very dim? ha ha
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    BYC Cookbook- Going to be re-released! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 25!

    What fun! I'm new in the past year to Backyard Chickens so I didn't even know there was a cookbook. I can't wait to buy one. The call for recipes sent me into the kitchen to try to recreate something that was made for me as a welcome breakfast when I first moved to California. My hostess...
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    Finish this sentence: "You know you're addicted to chickens when..."

    The pool guy tells you that you have interesting conversations with your chickens. This happened today. Further building evidence that I am addicted, instead of being embarrassed, I smiled and told him they appreciate intelligent conversation.
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    Sponsored Post Protecting your chickens from predators in your backyard!

    We have coyotes, raccoons, skunks, foxes, and mostly a lot of rather irresponsible dog owners (free-range dogs? -ah no, folks), and hawks. We're in the middle of a 160,000+ city. Do we are not allowed to harm them (not my style anyway). Despite the rocky ground, we installed 6 inch vent wire...
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    Comb Contest - Single! ***WINNER ANNOUNCED!!!***

    Beauty, our Golden Sex Link Hen, is pictured at 5 months old. Her single comb is a tad floppy at the top due to an earlier hawk attack.
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    Sponsored Post Congratulations MamaNini! You won a beautiful coop from Handcrafted Coops!

    Big reasons for raising backyard chickens were so that our two little boys (ages 5 and 7) would grow a new level of respect for food supply (our veggie garden and the chicken eggs), and also respect for all of earth's creatures. Sometimes the boys seem to be the real wild animals, so we wanted...
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