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    Questions about getting feeder and waterer off the floor

    We have much less food waste with a hanging feeder than one sitting on the floor. Because it moves when they try to get onto it, they don't like it. Have had NO problems with them pooping in the food since the feeder is hanging. It hangs at about chest height so we have little trouble with...
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    Frog legs with wild rice and apple sauce

    Now that...yah, that is a . If you made up a story like that, nobody would believe it. I totally believe it. Chickens and kids can be very entertaining.
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    Tuck 'em in with a drink of water

    OMG! Just when you think you've heard it all... Chickens used to be farm animals and nothing more but as you all know, many of them really have quite friendly and cute personalities. I've had chickens for about 10 years and didn't realize this until about...let's be specific here...Sept...
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    My 22 hens are eating tooooooo much.

    Hi, I have 25 year-old hens, 1 rooster, 13 pullets from this year, and 3 guineas. They eat 50 lbs a week. We had to cut out the high volume of scraps we were feeding cuz it killed egg production and they were molting, too. You are losing food somewhere; rodents, birds, racoons? It doesn't...
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    Do they need grit if free-ranged?

    Tala, Congrats on your job and your interesting assortment of critters.
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    Do they need grit if free-ranged?

    Grit and oyster or egg shell are used for two different reasons. Grit is used to provide grinding in their crops. It sits in the crop and pulverizes whatever they eat. When it gets small it goes into the gizzard and continues to grind up their food even smaller. Eventually, it passes through...
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    Egg production/diet

    I got a bag of Flock Raiser yesterday. Have lights installed in coop. Down to about 13 hrs daylight here in Mich so I am planning to turn them on this weekend. We are cutting out the excess scraps and will give them only what we create...which isn't much. Have a little scratch left and am...
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    Egg production/diet

    Thank you very much for all the thoughtful replies. I'm glad briteday was able to decipher my thinking as to why we are feeding the start n grow... to up the protein content of the diet. I believe all my questions have been answered...except one. Do you ever feed your chickens bread? I have...
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    Egg production/diet

    We have 25, 1-year-old hens. The most eggs we've gotten in one day in 2 months is 14. That was two days ago. Some days we get as few as 7 or 8. Variety of breeds, 3 buff orps, 5 white leghorns, 5 columbian wyandottes, 2 ameraucanas, 4 black stars, 2 red stars, 1 red leghorn, 1 golden laced...
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    What color is a chicken bruise??

    My Salmon Faverolle's wing is doing so well. She is holding it up in nearly a normal position. The swelling is down by 70%. The discoloration is gone. I'm so happy.
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    my own dog is the predator :(

    Reply to the dead chicken around the dog's neck: I've heard very conflicting results with this techniqe. A friend did that with a lab that liked goose. The dog appreciated very much having his lunch conveniently tied around his neck. But still continued to kill other geese. Don't think I'll...
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    my own dog is the predator :(

    I'm new to this and posted my reply/problem at the end of all the posts, in other words, back at the beginning. please read it. I feel terrible about all the chickens you lost. That is so sad.
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    my own dog is the predator :(

    So, I have a border collie/pom mix. Adopted him 2 years ago from a rescue group. He's a great dog. Beautiful, loving, ENERGETIC! Unfornately, he got the energy of the border collie but definitely not the brain. And, he is exceedingly crafty with a strong will to run. Last year he and his...
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    What color is a chicken bruise??

    Three horses, Your prayers weren't unnecessary...they were answered. I'm glad we applied the tincture of time I've heard about so often working in the medical field. She still continues to improve. Today will be her 4th injection of PCN. Then we stop that and see how things are. If her...
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    What color is a chicken bruise??

    Sorry I've been so negligent in my correspondence. We got the operating room ready on Wednesday, sterilized everything we could and grabbed the patient. Flipped her over and to our total surprise, her wing had improved. At that point she had been in isolation and on oral penicillin for about...
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