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    Moving out of State

    I am going to be moving from Virginia to New Orleans in August and would like to bring 3-5 of my favorite hens with me. To start with, do chickens (and cats) have to have health certificates to travel from state to state? I've heard many say, "NO, only large farm animals need health...
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    Dead Chicken!

    Thank you Dawg53. I will keep a close eye on rest of the girls and hope for the best. I will also be sure to keep dusting every 7-10 days until I no longer see anything on them. The coop is ready for its spring cleaning anyways so hopefully that will help to kill off the lice or whatever those...
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    Dead Chicken!

    Since I do not know what killed the hen - would it be better to burry her or wrap her up good and throw her away? Sorry if that sounds cold. She was not one of my named chickens and was just one of the girls. My biggest worry is having the rest of my chickens or livestock get sick too.
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    Dead Chicken!

    My chickens range in age from 4 years to 1 year. The hen that died was 2 years old. The wormers I used were: first time was Wazine and the 2nd wormer was about 3/4 tablespoon of Ivermectin disolved in water then mixed into 4 pounds of layer pellets.
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    Dead Chicken!

    I'm not sure what is going on. Last night I went to go put the girls to bed and noticed one of my RIR hens was walking around real slowly on the ground. I went to catch her thinking that she would run away like usual. She didn't - she just stood still and let me pick her up and when I set her...
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    What do you feed?

    Is it really cost effective to mix your own chicken feed or does it end up costing about the same a buying crumble/pellets?
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    What do you feed?

    Wow - your chickens eat better then I do! Lucky birds!! LOL
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    What do you feed?

    Thank you for the info - I didn't realize that raw soybean was toxic! I'll be sure to keep that in mind if I mix my own feed.
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    Horse and Chicken feed

    Horse feed and chicken feed cost about the same in this area and I have a bunch of coupons for free horse feed. If I can't use straight horse feed with oyster shell on the side, I figured I'd mix 2 bags of horse feed, with a bag of layer feed, and a bag of cracked corn... along with the oyster...
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    Horse and Chicken feed

    I live on a small hobby farm (19 acres) with all kinds of 4 and 2 legged critters. To cut back on the number of feed barrels that I use, I was wondering if it would be safe to feed my hens a high protein no molasses horse feed instead of layer feed and scratch?? They have pretty much the same...
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    What do you feed?

    Wow - Thanks for the ideas! I might have to look into making my own feed too. With the cost of chicken feed going up up up - that might be the way to go. Anyone else have home made chicken feed recipes? What are the best forms of protein? How about soy?
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    What do you feed?

    I just started using pellets because the crumbles looked too much like the bottom of the chicken coop, and when they start digging and shooting dirt everywhere, it all looks the same. As you said, "too much waste". Problem is they don't seem to like the pellets as much as the crumble. I'd assume...
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    Worming??

    Thank you Snozzle. I will have to see if I can find some info on it and maybe give it a try. I was unsure if chickens need wormed or not, but i figgured if all the other farm animals do, the chickens might as well. Thanks Again!
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    What do you feed?

    What do you feed your layers? I was going to do a poll but couldn't quite figgure it out... 1. Layer crumbles? 2. Layer pellets? 3. Scratch/grains? 4. Table scraps?
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    Worming??

    Do you worm your chickens? I'm just curious how many of you out there worm your chickens. If you do, what do you use and how often? Can the eggs still be considered ORGANIC? Thank You!
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