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  1. BDutch

    Broody Hen with no eggs, can I give her store bought?

    I would wait 3 weeks and see what will happen. I presume you have a rooster and there is a good chance the eggs are fertile. Store bought eggs rarely are. Unless you can buy the more expensive Demeter eggs at an organic grocery store. But adding eggs later in the process gets problematic when...
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    Glyphosate is very poisonous. Much more than buttercups. Researchers from the University of Hawaii have shown that the intestinal flora of honey bees becomes disterted when they are exposed to glyphosate. Glyphosate is a component of weed killers like Roundup, which has long been suspected of...
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    Thank you. This is Janice, a bantam mix, not a pure breed (Dutch x naine de Tournaisis). Dutch...

    Thank you. This is Janice, a bantam mix, not a pure breed (Dutch x naine de Tournaisis). Dutch is heritage breed from the Netherlands and the Naine de Tournaisis is a heritage breed from Belgium. She has the most elegant build of all my chickens. She hatched in 2019.
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    🐣 What Kind of Chicken Parent Are You?

    Offtopic: They do this in Germany. And I believe the Americans often use capitals for every word in headings. In the Netherlands we use less capitals than in English. (Better). My mixed flock has a real mother, foster mothers and kids, real siblings, and a bandolera who crows as acts like a...
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    🐣 What Kind of Chicken Parent Are You?

    I had to share the one question about feeding them (A/B). ♊️ Otherwise I might have been schizophrenic , Twins 👯 or Triplets.🎶 🏆 2.5 points: The Balanced Backyarder 🌿 2 points: The Chill Chicken Parent 🐔 1.5 points: The Chicken Royalty 👑 I do like this outcome! It nails it.
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    Natural breeding thread

    Sorry to hear there is no happy ending. :hugs I wonder if chickens are so clever they really learn from it. Breeding is very hormone driven. I wonder if you learned from it too? Suppose Janeka or another hen goes off to breed in the wild, what will you do?
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    Natural breeding thread

    Buy a (second hand) rabbit hutch or kids playhouse or a new prefab for chickens since there is no time to build one. On marketplace they often offer (almost) free second hand hutches. Be careful to buy a second hand coop bc if red mites have lived in it, you buy yourself a huge problem.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Largely a good article but very focused on the environmental impact of wool produce in china, not saying anything about the environmental impact of acrylic and other plastic fibres, not really comparing with cotton /organic cotton. No word about flax, viscose and hemp which are all upcoming...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    If the wool is clean /prepared for isolation as it should (like Isolena products), no moths going to eat it. The big companies that produce the environmentally harmful rock wool and styrofoam, do a lot of marketing to bring the natural isolation fibres down. Lot of bad things that are being...
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Most sheep in the Netherlands dont give a good quality wool. They are mainly kept for 2 very different reasons and in very different ways. 1 to graze the heathlands and other nature reserves, 2 for meat (commercial) The wool is a dirty byproduct that is not used commercially. The cleaning...
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    Natural breeding thread

    The video is not what I meant to show. This is when the chicks where just a few days old and still inside the small coop, where they had nothing to scratch for. Only wet chick feed and water in a bowl. A few days later they all went downstairs where the mothers scratch and let the chicks eat...
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    Natural breeding thread

    I have to search in my videos from the times I had chicks. If I find a good one I could upload it to YouTube and share it.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I thought the article was about bugs entering the UK. And I guess they are the same in the UK as in the Netherlands. I supposed they import flowers/ flower bouquets from the Netherlands into the US but not pots with plats for the garden. Or do they? Wild flowers (digitalis)
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    MJ's little flock

    It only covers for large diggers. Where I live, with the predators we have, it would be useless. I use HWC 25-30 cm in the ground or flat with soil/bricks/grass on top or large stoop-tiles.
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    Chicken oddities: what’s something you wish your chicken/chickens didn’t do?

    :hit. Stupid cockerels who start to crow loudly in the morning. If they wouldn’t start to crow till after 8 during the week and 9.30 in the weekend, at least one of them could stay and become a real rooster. And some of the thing others have mentioned, like: 💩. Chickens pooping on the terrace...
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    Natural breeding thread

    I hope it will be a great experience in due time. And also interesting to add the whole story as an article (for the contest) about natural breeding in a wild spot.
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    How do you cull chickens?

    I read the most humane to kill a chicken in another thread here on BYC: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/humane-way-of-culling-chicken.1615875/page-6#post-28513157 I bookmarked it in case I ever need it. Like @Bigbluefrog , the TS I don’t harvest my chickens.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Of course there is a lot of Dutch news today about the fall of our right wing government but there was also an interesting article about a change in plants and flowers they sell in garden centres and other shops. The garden should be greener The article is behind a paywall. I translated it for...
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    Natural breeding thread

    This is different from the way my hens raised their chicks. I observed my hens searching tiny worms for the chicks and clucking to them to give to the chicks whatever good food she found for them.
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    Too much calcium

    I can’t find any info about heavy metals in the soil and organic within Europe. I know the organisation (for the official green EU label with 12 stars) test the crops/vegetables every year throughout the food chain. Thanks for the links. I look into it later if its doable for me to read them...
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