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    Layer pellets & scratch?? Less eggs or more?

    We used to feed our hens scraps- vegetable peeling, grains, table scraps etc. The quality of our eggs suffered as a result. We now feed them only crumbles with scratch a a treat at the end of the day when we put them in. They LOVE scratch. But they only get a handful a day. We also let them free...
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    What to do about the raccoons?

    We live by a Marsh and have lost several hens to raccoons. Over the years we have modified our coop by laying wire underneath all fences and the coop itself. We also double wired the sides with 1/2 inch grid wire after a raccoon reached in an dismembered a hen through the fencing. We saw a...
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    Sleeping arrangements

    We have an assortment of chickens- a Buff Orpington, RI Red, Silverlaced Wyandotte and an Andalusian. They get along fine as far as we can tell...however, lately, only the Buff Orp is sleeping inside the actual coop. The other three are sleeping on a roosting bar in the pen underneath the...
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    What breed is my grey hen?

    I have one that could be her twin-same color, same short comb, same grey feet.. She was a rescue and I always wondered what she was. We need an ancestry.com for chickens...
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    age of going to roost

    We put our teenagers into the coop at about six weeks. We first put them inside with a heat lamp at night. For a couple of weeks they would not come outside. When they finally did come outside they must have decided it was pretty nice, because now they won't go inside. They are sleeping in a...
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    Food Scraps?

    Everything but the kitchen sink. They have been happy and healthy and laying for 2 years.
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    She is pecking my leg...

    One of our hens , Polly, has started this new behavior. Lately when I come in the yard she runs up to me and pecks at my leg. My husband thinks maybe I have spoiled them with too many treats, and when she sees me she is expecting some scrap delicacy from our dinner salad makings. I can't tell...
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