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    Green Eggs and genetics

    Here he is, grey with copper, white accents clean feet with large spurs. The hens from his run were grey with some copper tone, silver feet.
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    Green Eggs and genetics

    I’ll try to find a picture, we had to cull him do to aggression issues but were surprised at his appearance as well. When we called tsc when he feathered out they confirmed he was Sapphire Gem, they didn’t sound too sure of the breed though.
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    Green Eggs and genetics

    We have a blended flock and have a second generation hen, her Roo was a sapphire gem that looked like a cooper maran, and her hen was obviously a buff brahma because she carries most of those characteristics. My question is, where did she get the green eggs?? Our gem and brahmas lay pale...
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    Adding DE to chicken feed?

    I use DE as our all animal dewormer, serve it wet with the food for intestinal parasites. For the cat and dog we use coconut oil and DE in the dry food for one week seasonally, visible results. For chickens, as needed, water not oil, and if they eat crumbles you might could put it in dry. I...
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    Ok so 1) we decided we are probably going to drastically reduce flock size and work on managing a smaller flock in hopes of prices going down in the future. We will be keeping our homemade barnyard mix hens and retiring the original flock ladies. Hopefully bringing in some new blood next round...
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    Lol I mean it really isn’t if using for internal parasites, only external. And I’m not, just mentioned that we do use this
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    Experience has proved otherwise, and you mix it in wet feed.
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    It sounds absurd right? There’s literally folks one street over selling them that price, so can’t manage higher and get sales. Grocery stores cost more, but have consistent stock.
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    Would large breeds like brahmas and australorps need more? Half the flock are those
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    They may could use? If that’s what you meant we do add diatomaceous earth on occasion (that is our wormer for all our animals)
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    We store it in plastic containers to keep the rodents etc out. My husband has been putting the feed out every morning and it’s gone in a matter of minutes. We’ve never been able to free-feed these hens because they don’t stop eating. They also free range part time, and get scraps. I’m thinking...
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    This makes me think we are really overfeeding them. This means my hens should be stretching that bag at least two weeks…
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    I live in Eastern NC, and so even now we still have greens growing around the yard, we have woods full of bugs and piles of wood chips, compost, etc. I think they should be able to find what they need out and about with the feed as a supplement, but husband has been in the habit of filling...
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    Can you ferment the pellets?
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    Can’t afford rising feed prices

    We have a large family and need the eggs, though we’ve managed to sacrifice and sell a dozen here or there, at $2 a dozen (local value) it’s not offsetting anything. I’ve mentioned just reducing the flock and maybe getting some younger hens before summer (stretch the feed till the foraging is...
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