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    Peanuts for Chickens??

    My daughter's science teacher is wanting her to do a science project by feeding some chickens a small amount of peanuts and the other no peanuts. The idea is to see if those that are fed the peanuts would produce larger or more eggs than those who don't get the extra protein. I am sure we...
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    Gardening and Chickens

    I had a garden before chickens the first year wasn't bad but after that I affectionately call my chickens the bulldozers of the yard. They dig, scratch, sit on and eat everything in site. No matter what kinda of a fence you put up they will get over or thru. I am going to attempt to make...
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    Help from Chicken Veterans...No Eggs

    Thanks for the encouragement. I don't think they are eating their eggs because I do get an egg maybe one or if lucky two a week. If they need the extra protein and calcium how do you buy that?
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    Help from Chicken Veterans...No Eggs

    I have 5 chickens that are about 2 years old. They used to be great layers. But this winter I didn't give them the allowed light for egg production. I didn't give them any additional light other than natural sunlight. I thought the egg production would pick up after the daylight became...
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    troubles laying eggs

    We have had a predator scare lately. Approximately two weeks ago we had a racoon visit and after about three days we caught him in a trap just out side the coop. Do you think they are affected by the racoon?
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    My lab just tried to kill one of my hens!

    We had something similar happen our dog (red healer) has been with our chickens for two years and then suddenly one Sunday afternoon my daughter screams and the dog comes up to the house with her favorite chicken "Matilda" in her mouth. Her neck was snapped and we had to put her out of her...
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    troubles laying eggs

    I am wondering if anyone out there as had a similar problem that we are having. We now have 4 chickens they are almost two years old this spring and they have been great layers all of them very predictable. But this fall things started slacking off in the egg laying department due to molting...
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    Need Help with Racoons

    Thanks for your help. I thought about setting my boys out there at night with the .22 but it's getting cold to sit out there. We may have to resort to that if the other doesn't work. Thanks for the help.
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    Need Help with Racoons

    I have had trouble with racoons getting into our dog food. We bought a body trap and have been setting it up with tuna fish in it. Every night it gets the tuna and sets the trap off but we have no racoon in the trap. I don't know how it's setting off the trap and getting out. Last night we...
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    Chickens are not laying much...Help

    Thanks Mrs. Puff... We have had a few feathers laying around and maybe that is what it is. I thought when they molted they lost a lot of feathers at once but this maybe the problem. We are going into winter here in Utah and are planning on adding some more pullets in the spring time. Thanks...
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    Chickens are not laying much...Help

    We have 5 chickens they are little of two years old. They have all laid so well getting 4-5 eggs daily since they started laying. But now in the past couple months they have slowed down to laying only 1-2 eggs a day. We haven't changed the feed, which is layer pellets and some scratch as well...
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