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    How Much Does it Cost You for Organic Chicken Feed?

    You'd have to grind whole grains for the babies (I've heard some people use a coffee grinder and grind just enough for the day - the oils in the grains start to oxidize and loose nutritional value as soon as they're cut and exposed to air) and make sure they have access to chick sized grit. As...
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    How Much Does it Cost You for Organic Chicken Feed?

    There is a distributer for Countryside Natural about 30 min from me and I order everything through her. Right now, I have 8 100% free range hens and over the winter we went through one 50lb bag of Layer Feed and one 50lb bag of Scratch about every 3 months (the bags cost me ~$28 ea including...
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    Fat Hen

    OK, I weighed her this morning and she turns out to be 8 lbs (I was sure she'd weigh more - she looks like a little turkey!). Should I be concerned about the squishy belly hanging down between her legs and her lumbering walk? All the rest of the girls (med and heavy breeds - SL Wyandotte...
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    Fat Hen

    Shes definitely eating, drinking, and sun/dustbathing. I'm not sure about egg laying - I've seen her in the nest box once or twice, but have never caught her red handed.
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    Fat Hen

    Hi, I have a small flock of 8 free range (well, in my backyard) hens and have recently become concerned about my Buff Orpington's weight. She's HUGE! She has a soft, squishy handful of FAT? on her abdomen between her legs and I'm not sure if shes laying eggs at this point. I feed the girls...
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    Fat Hen

    Hi, I have a small flock of 8 free range (well, in my backyard) hens and have recently become concerned about my Buff Orpington's weight. She's HUGE! She has a soft, squishy handful of FAT? on her abdomen between her legs and I'm not sure if shes laying eggs at this point. I feed the girls...
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    Help - Chick Straining to Poop

    Thank you everyone for your responses - the chick seems to be doing MUCH better today. No more pasting, growing, active, good appetite. In fact, I've concluded that she just might have gotten herself into trouble by overeating. Today I threw some pinhead crickets in with them and she went...
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    Help - Chick Straining to Poop

    Thanks Jody and ChickensRFun for your input. I'm assuming she was vent sexed, which must have been pretty tough since she is soooooo tiny. I got her from Meyer Hatchery in Ohio through mypetchicken.com (I'm in NC). When I got my 3 silkies home I introduced them to the water and this...
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    Help - Chick Straining to Poop

    I have a 4 day old silkie who is having a REALLY hard time going to the bathroom - she squats and holds her wings up and shakes and tries to shimmy around and as it finally comes out she peeps loudly. Her poops have looked relatively normal but larger than the other two silkies poos, and today...
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