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    molting/protein?

    Raise your own Duckweed 50% protein .
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    Bad egg ?

    Sounds right thanks.
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    Mash, Pellets or Crumbles? Poll!

    Take the feed away for few days when they start wasting , they learn fast .
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    Bad egg ?

    The white was solid white beside the yolk , there was no clear white in the egg .
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    Bad egg ?

    Just opened an egg and the white looked like it was already cooked . What's wrong ?
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    Feed inside coop or not??

    I run deep litter in coop and run , with dirt floors . Mess is no problem and some dampness brings worms in the litter , and hens learn quick . In summer I wet the litter when it dries , to help in the composting . The food and water is inside the coop .OH I've seen chicken swallow a mouse...
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    How good is a dirt floor for coop?

    Deep liter system is like mulch pile , witch creates it's own heat hens love it in winter, and love to scratch for the worms and bugs that lives there. Concrete absorbs urine smells witch is detrimental to your hens .
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    I need help getting my chickens to find their nesting boxes!

    The only reason I use golf balls or fake eggs is for the black snakes that steal eggs . My coop floors are dirt , so I use the deep litter system , and straw in nest boxes .
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    Deep Litter Method, Please explain, Questions from Newbie thanks Sunny

    Grass, leaves and sawdust is great . I don't add anything in the mix and my hen area don't smell . For dusting purposes I have a box (with no bottom ) filled 1/3 with sand and DE for dusting .My box is 2 X 4 ft. My chicken love to scratch in the run and coop , and dust in the box . OH the dust...
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    How do you keep a clean run?

    I have a 6in edging around my pen & coop . All my grass clippings and dry leaves go in the pen .Let the chicken have fun scratching and picking out bugs . In late fall , I take all loose matter and leaves mixing them in the coop ,creating a compost pile that mixed with chicken droppings heats...
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    Chickens not laying in the summer.

    How many nest boxes , and are they free range ? If not enough nest boxes , they will lay in the brush
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    Egglaying went down why ??

    Forgot molting ,it's that time ,I think .
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    Breed Recommendations for a newbie

    BROODY I want . They are considered by me as a doomsday chicken , lay eggs fairly well , go broody to multiply , and plenty of meat on bone. I let one hen to brood and take the eggs away ,every day from others .
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    Old fashioned Broody thread for ducks 2013 edition

    Finally hatched , all 24
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    Eating muscovy ducks?

    Muscovy is not in the mallard family . The meat is more like veal , very tasty .I cooked them , up to a yr. old , in a covered roasting pan with a little bit of water for humidity at 350 .
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