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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Beans! My chickens love beans! They also got some left-over salad and half of a cucumber. Happy chickens!!
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    Molting.Hen.Poor thing is sad looking.

    I live in Southern California and the weather is been very warm and dry. One of my six hens started molting this week…feathers everywhere! But she seems fine and is eating up a storm (and still producing eggs) so I'm not too worried. I think it's funny that she's on a different cycle than her...
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    How do you vacation when you have chickens?

    We try to get a neighbor to come visit the chickens at least once a day to check food/water and give them some love. As a bonus, they get all the eggs! In a worse case scenario, we fill the water feeder and food bin to max capacity which will allow us to go away for 2-3 days (but this is not...
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Tomatoes and cucumbers from our garden (the cold nights here have made the veggies a little bitter for humans but still loved by chickens).
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Half a water melon, a peach (no pit) and some saltine crackers! But their favorite things is when I "help" dig up worms in the garden.
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    Hummas and veggies...left over from our bbq last night!
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    What treat did your chickies get today?

    figs, bell peppers and and shrimp shells (which they were not as crazy about as I had expected)
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    How often can I feed my chickens table scraps/treats?

    I give mine all our veggie scraps. They love it and they still eat their regular food too. Now that some of the plants in my garden have seen better days, I let them forage for worms. Some times I help by shoveling up the deep dirt to get to the good stuff...seriously spoiled chickens!
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    Approximately when do bantam cochins start laying eggs?

    Thanks for all the info! I have two cochins that are almost six months old...no eggs yet!
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    how do you teach chickens to use the nipple waterer?

    Adding a nipple water feeder to the coop was the single greatest thing we did for our chickens (and for us). The regular water feeder would get really gross throughout the day and I worried they'd get sick (Alfredo liked to sit on top of the feeder and poop into the water tray...nasty!). I was...
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    Horn Worms eat Tomato Plants - so are they still good for chickens?

    My hens love, love, love horn worms. We've only had a few this year, but I picked them off the plants and gave them to the chickens as a treat. I checked online first and it sounds like they are safe (if I read it on the internet, it must be true, right? ha ha). And good for you saving the...
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    What Special Treat or Yummy Did Your Flock Get Today?

    My chickens seem to eat everything, except onions! I save all my vegetable scraps for the chickens...the really love the seeds from inside peppers.
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    Vegetarian Chickens?

    Thanks for this post. Someone just asked me if my chickens were vegetarian and I asked if they considered insects meat?!? I don't feed my chickens meat, but they do eat a lot of bugs (which they love). I even help them dig down into the soil to find the big, juicy worms! I can't imagine how...
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    SO new!

    Hi there! This site was hugely helpful to me when we first adopted our chickens. I knew pretty much nothing and suddenly had a flock of 6 that need my love and attention!! My best advice is to read up on keeping your chickens safe...there are many predators out there that are looking for a...
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    San Diego family of 4 dive into a new world of self sufficiency

    Hi Sara - I'm in San Diego too!! We got chickens over Memorial Day weekend, so I'm fairly new at this too. It is super fun and very rewarding. We are in No. County and have had great luck with supplies at Hawthorne Country Store in Escondido. And our friends even got their baby chicks from...
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