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    Ended The Ultimate Egg Dish Challenge

    I am so hungry from scrolling through these.
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    What do you feed your layers?

    I asked the local shopkeeper for the "ten" picturing ten pounds and got ten kilos of a mash the chicks love, which has wheat, barley, corn, oats, soy, vitamins, and unspecified ingredients. I'm sensitive to soy, so I am mixing this mash with an oatmeal/wheat/corn mix I grind together with a...
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    Sunflower Seeds/Meal worms good for chickens and how much?

    My problem with mixing sunflower seeds into the feed is that the chickens pick them out and waste the rest. Feeding both mealworms and sunflower seeds to the side makes easier calculations, anyway.
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    Hi I start off needing help

    Good luck with her. I know you are doing the best you can.
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    New Member from SW Mississippi

    Welcome back :)
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    New to Backyard Chickens

    Welcome. Homeschooling and chickens can go very well together.
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    Anyone "raising" mealworms to give as treats?

    I did this for years in plastic drawers on the cheapest oatmeal I could lay hands on. Buy one get one? Bring it on! After opening a box of cockroaches, I realized I should either bake the oatmeal or freeze it for a couple of months to make sure it wasn't breeding its own little zoo, but...
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    Tell me about bantams

    I had a trio of chochin bantams, and they were great. Laid beautiful little eggs and came when called. I tried to recreate that trio with other bantams and found them noisy and unproductive. Good luck!
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    What did you do with your flock today?

    Got fencing installed today to contain the yardbirds.
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    Fell off a cliff

    Chick is safe. When in doubt, ask a young kid who grew up here. (And tip generously.)
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    Fell off a cliff

    I don't know exactly where she is now, and a ladder would have to be a flexible ladder, like a fire ladder. I don't know if anyone around here has one. Right now I think I'll cut out a pyramidal fish trap, which might work better than the cardboard box because she wouldn't be able to leave it...
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    Fell off a cliff

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    Fell off a cliff

    No, there's rather a drop below.
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    Fell off a cliff

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