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    How much do your chickens eat? :D

    a local salvation army gets donations of out of date bakery products from a krogers. They put the newest stuff on the shelves and the older stuff goes in a bin outside for anyone that wants it. we get about 15-20 loaves of whole grain bread a week (or so) and it all goes to the hens. They get...
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    How much do your chickens eat? :D

    We are in SW ohio. I have 6 hens, 4+ months old. They go thru a 12 pound feeder of 60/40 mix of layer crumbles & cracked corn every 10-15 days. They free range from dawn to dusk in a fenced area, appx 150 sq ft. with a few hand-fulls of cracked corn or homegrown sunflower seed spread around a...
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    Am I looking after my chicken properly.

    I just started with my first small laying flock. we bought a small (3"x3"x3") coop (until i have time to build something larger). the coop is on a concrete pad inside a 10'x10'x6'H chain-link dog run covered with a 10"x12" tarp. I built a brooder 2"dx4"wx6"H it is in the unheated garage...
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