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    help me compare feed tags, please?

    Well, that's excellent as 1 is Layena and 2 is the feed mill closest to me. Thanks everyone!
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    help me compare feed tags, please?

    OK Crude Protein 16% 17% 14.7% Lysine .55 .9 .7 Methionine .25 .25 .7 Crude Fat 2.5-7% 2.6-4 2.7-(max not listed) Crude Fiber...
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    help me compare feed tags, please?

    Our layers are 20 weeks today. We are switching to layer feed. I have one tag for Purina Layena. I also have two tags for local feed mills where if I buy in bulk, the price drops dramatically. I don't know enough about this, though, to know if the feed mill ingredients and the guaranteed...
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    nighttime chicken behavior

    Well, its encouraging to hear that the pile up may just be a young chicken behavior. We haven't run power to the coop yet...will do so before the weather gets cold, but for right now, no lightbulb. I guess we'll try putting stuff on the step to keep them from roosting there and see what happens???
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    nighttime chicken behavior

    My flock of layers (17--no roos that I can tell, anyway) have a brand new coop with all the recommended suggestions here (well ventilated from the top, sq. footage is over 4 sq. ft per bird etc) , and a large run, and we are in a rural area with few predator problems. I raised them from the...
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    brooding question

    I watched a dvd recently about brooding chickens and there was a segment on allowing a mother hen to brood the chicks and then raise them. I was just wondering...how come the mother hen lets her chicks out in the grass (presumeably not in 90 degree weather, which is what it would be in week 2...
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    question about lice on chickens...

    I'm so relieved! I have heard horror stories from friends about getting rid of lice on children (and the bedding, and couches, and stuffed animals, etc). Blech.
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    question about lice on chickens...

    This is probably a dumb question, but is this the same kind of lice that get into human hair? I have three long haired girls and we have our first layers scheduled to arrive in April. Should I be worried about this at all?
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    fencing for goats and chickens

    Quote: Hmmmmmmm...I hadn't thought about how the hens would then have access to the goats stalls. I am not too excited about hunting around for eggs. Plus, wouldn't the goats be tempted to eat the eggs? Maybe it would be better to keep them separate. If I keep them separate, is there a...
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    fencing for goats and chickens

    Quote: They made the goats smelly?? Well, if the fencing goes in without too many delays, we'll have a 3yr old Saanen who will be due in August, and a younger kid doe (alpine) for company. I don't think we'll keep the Saanen's babies...but having just seen the pix of those Boer babies being...
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    fencing for goats and chickens

    I shared here earlier that we are preparing our land for goats and layers. I was originally planning on having separate pasture areas for each, but dh (who is also the fence builder) asked me the other day if they needed to have separate areas. I told him I had no idea! But I am guessing...
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    newbie coop question

    Quote: Sorry, perhaps that wasn't the best phrase... but it's SOMEthing like that, IMO, if chickens have less than 1.5 sq ft each fully-indoors. The overall design, the 10x18' roofed and partly walled part, seems GREAT to me-- it's just the indoor space that seems to be designed very...
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    Help with buying a dairy goat?

    Quote: No kidding??? Well, that's cool. I am hoping to make ice cream in the summer and yogurt regularly with the extra milk.
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    newbie coop question

    Quote: It never occurred to me that we might be cutting corners? My friend's coop was not an attempt to cut corners. It was a design she saw in a poultry book and copied, I believe. 10x18 is 180 sq. feet, right? If I had 25 chickens, that would be 7 sq. ft per bird. I'm trying to...
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    newbie coop question

    The entire coop area is 10x18, I believe, sheltered but not completely enclosed from the weather (two solid walls). The roosting area, which is a smaller little house for at night and when the weather is too cold, is the area I'm trying to determine a size for. This nighttime spot will be...
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