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    What is your chickens’ favorite scrap treat?

    Popcorn! And oatmeal, the goose lives to play in oatmeal!
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    How do you gather your eggs?

    Yup, the cans and buckets and all are too much of a handful and get left behind, my T-shirt never does.
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    How do you gather your eggs?

    I usually go out when I get home from work in my dirty work clothes, do I just lift the hew if my T-shirt for a handy pouch, it’s in front of me so no running I to anything, tho it’s dark and I have put an already cracked egg in my pouch, all in all it’s the best solution I have.
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    Official BYC Poll: With Winter Upon Us, What Preparations Have You Made For Your Chickens?

    My chicken house had a temporary cardboard roof which was working well, but every time I get it set some cat thinks it’s sturdy enough to jump on, it’s not. It’s still occasionally used by the chickens but they prefer to be under since I out cinder blocks with 2” limbs thru the holes for them to...
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    Muddy coop

    I’ve heard using bark like you use in gardens, the bigger the better. I got some for my back garden when I got a huge greyhound pony…er, puppy who would bring regular sized bark in the house between his toes. These chunks were almost as large as my palm
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    Is DE safe for chickens

    Diamonds have a hardness rating of 9, DE has a hardness rating of 7, if diamonds get wet they do nit lose their hardness, neither does DE. If you research DE you will find out why. I have given DE to chickens with runny poop suspecting parasites, clear the next day or so, sounds like it’s...
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    DO YOU WASH & REFRIGERATE YOUR EGGS?-

    I live in the Central Valley of California where we have clay soil. In the winter when it rains the hens often will get the clay on the eggs and it stains the shell. If selling the eggs I happily eat these myself
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    New pullets, night lights advice?

    Try eBay!
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    Bad bad snake

    Kinda over the top for a snake, not even poisonous or a large constricter, wouldn’t you say?
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    Neighbors Dog is Back Again

    ive been with BYC for a few years now, awesome advice for new backyarders and this if us who started again after DECADES! I’d like to respond to a post a woman is having with the lab/pit chicken murderer. I live in what’s called the city, lol, but there’s an alfalfa field 4 houses down, and...
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    New to the coop

    New to the coop, About three weeks ago I bought a brown sex link I was told she was seven months old but my information show that a brown sex link ought to be laying at five months. She looks mature enough to lay but she hadn't given me anything in the 2 to 3 weeks that I have her, and I don't...
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