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    milk for chickens

    Interestingly, milk is sometimes given to create diarrhea in chickens and is then given for seven days straight, as a Coccidiomycosis flush. It's used exclusively as a TREATMENT (it won't PREVENT Coccidio).
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    milk for chickens

    Although milk is given to Bresse chickens as part of the REQUIRED regimen, I have read that goat's milk or mare's milk is easier for them to digest. In any case, milk is fed to those chickens. Mine were surprised by milk but took it better once I tossed I some bread crumbs. It looks like yogurt...
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    milk for chickens

    ...but they HATE weak cocktails...
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    milk for chickens

    The Bresse chicken ("The Queen of chickens, fit for a King") is routinely fed MILK later in its life to help add fat to the meat, and therefore better flavor. It is renowned as the World's Best-Tasting Chicken. Also, the bread you give to your chickens can easily contain milk. They do fine with...
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    Silver Laced Wyandotte question

    This is a view from the side of the back of my Silver Laced Wyandotte. Her feather tracings are unusual. I see no photographs of this color pattern of white feather shapes traced onto black feathers. Is this rare? Is there a name for it?
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