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    Geese and trash can chicken feeder..

    We just purchased a new trash can chicken feeder for the chickens and ordered a couple geese and now I’m worried. Will the geese be able to feed out of that feeder? I was going to switch to flock raiser feed and now I’m worried the geese might not be able to use this feeder because of the pvc...
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    Our backyard coop and mandarin aviery.

    Also..the chickens are never in our aviery. That is strictly for the mandarin ducks. Right now we have 7 hens that are in our group and we have a final three that we are going to introduce later that arent quite up to size yet to put with the others. The ones in the coop now are a Light...
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    Our backyard coop and mandarin aviery.

    Actually at one end of the coop we have two small trash cans that we store feed in. One has chicken feed and the other has Mazuri Waterfowl feed in it. Both cans have their own scoops and under the coop we have a dust bath for the chickens that contains a mixture of potting soil, sand, and...
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    Our backyard coop and mandarin aviery.

    Maybe. They do chew on things so you would want to use metal hardware cloth for the sides.
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    When do chickens get their final adult coloring?

    We are raising an assortment of chicks up right now for our small backyard flock. I have noticed that many of them that are on their three week mark don't have feathering that looks like what the final adult pattern and color should look like. I am really noticing this on the light brahma...
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    How long until fully feathered?

    Hello. I'm new here and new to keeping geese. We got ourselves four little gosling's this year for our backyard and so far they have been a lot of fun. I have an aviary in the back also that houses a small group of ornamental ducks so this wasn't a far stretch for us. My question is about...
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