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    Comment by 'Tlawler' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    We have an invasive weed know as "chickweed" on the farm. Duiring the winter and late spring, every day the chickens -- 10 barred rock hens -- get cut up pieces of white bread and picked chickweed. They go nuts over the bread, but the chickweed is eaten every day. When the garden kicks in in...
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    Comment by 'Tlawler' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    We have chickweed growing like ... er ... a weed on our farm, and each afternoorn when I collect eggs they get a little bit of "cheap" white bread (their favorites) and some chickweed (they aren't free range, as we only have 10 hens, and we have off leash neighborhood dogs, foxes, and other...
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    Comment by 'Tlawler' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    I meant, of course, harvest, not replace the eggs. This May, we are on average getting about 9 eggs a day.
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    Comment by 'Tlawler' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    Aside from Purina Layeena Crumble in the morning, our ten barred rock hens get treats every afternoon when I give them new water and replace the eggs. The treats depend on the time of year. We have tons of chickweed growing on the farm, so currently they get chickweed and pieces of the cheapest...
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    10 barred rock hens

    I have 10 barred rock hens, got them as a few day old chicks in march 2012 (paid up to get all pullets). Since we got these incredibly beautiful and pretty friendly biids (though April 25, 2013), we have gotten about 112 dozen eggs. The only folks living on our farm are my wife and myself, but...
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    Comment by 'Tlawler' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    I meant our barred rock hens, though our neighbors are friendly as well (or they wouldn't get any eggs!)
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    Comment by 'Tlawler' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    This list was incredibly useful. We had a summer garden as well as a large field (about 600) of sunflowers, and knowing what "the girls" can/should and cannot/should not eat was most helpful. While our tomato crop was seriously hurt by critter damage, that just meant more for the girls! Out ten...
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    Comment by 'Tlawler' in item 'Plymouth Rock'

    Got 10 pullets at Tractor Supply on March 2nd. It's now the end of August, and these ten beautiful birds are laying like it's now tomorrow, with production averaging eight a day. We are out in the country so their very modest noise level (certainly lower than the guinea hens we had a few years...
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    can chickens over eat sunflower seeds?

    The "girls" this summer have had lots to eat, as we have several garden plots. In late spring they got a lot of lettuce; early summer a lot of zucchini; and mid/late summer a lot of tomatoes. Also quite a few grapes from some wild grape vines on the farm. And, of course, other "table scraps,"...
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    can chickens over eat sunflower seeds?

    Can chickens eat all kinds of sunflower seeds? In my big field I planted about 600 sunflowers this year, all types but mainly mammoth. I'm now cutting and drying the seeds for next year's planting and some just for human snacks, but I'm guessing that I'll have plenty over the winter for the...
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    Barred Rocks Hens Now Laying Big Time

    We live in the country, but we have three neighbors who don't have chickens, so we'll be making sure they don't have to buy any eggs! And our barred rock hens are so friendly! And, well, don't mean to say anything about a woman's weight, but they are pretty hefty chickens! Feed them layer...
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    Barred Rocks Hens Now Laying Big Time

    My 10 barred rock hens, now about 25 weeks old, are laying to the tune of about four dozen a week. Interestingly, three of the eggs laid over the past two day are fully and completely "jumbos," and don't fit into my large egg cartons. Most eggs laid over the last week have been medium to...
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    Barred Rock Hens Laying

    I got 10 barred rock hens at Tractor Supply on March 2nd, and on July 21st the first three eggs came in. Can't tell which hens laid the egges, but it was nice to see egg production started. Aside from layer crumble, the girls get bread crumbs, cut up zucchini, cut up tomatoes, and sunflower...
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