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    Scratch & Peck feed - Do your chickens eat the healthy stuff or just yummy grains?

    Scratch & Peck makes whole grain feeds without corn that are supplemented with vitamins & such. the website mentions how to incorporate the "leftovers" into a moist mash. Ive seen several posts raving Scratch & Peck feeds. Im just wondering if others chickens actually consume the additives...
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    Scratch & Peck feed - Do your chickens eat the healthy stuff or just yummy grains?

    We have recently moved and need to switch feed brand for our flock of Dutch bantams. In the past they were on mazuri gamebird breeder or maintenance feed. All the vitamins were baked into the small kibbles. The birds ate well on it and kept them in great condition. We moved to Washington...
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    Want Your Coop Thoughts? Moving & Building New Coop

    Were moving to Port Angeles area in WA
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    Want Your Coop Thoughts? Moving & Building New Coop

    We are moving from WI to Wa late this summer and taking some of our Dutch bantams with us. Gotta still have chickens but 12 is the maximum making the move. Were going to need a new coop and looking to pick your brains about what you like or don't like in your coops. Right now we have all our...
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    Opinions on Greehouse Shed Coop in NW Washington

    We are moving later this summer to the Olympic Peninsula area in NW Washington. We are cutting WAY back on chickens and taking only about 10 of our Dutch bantams with us. We don't need a coop to tolerate sub zero winters anymore but still want a coop that is insulated with good ventilation...
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    BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

    Hubby built a new brooder last year, it has worked out great. We have it in a hallway just off the kitchen and we can veiw the chicks from the living room too. When I gave my requests for what I wanted ina new brooder he thought I was nuts having the clear plastic sides, the chicks love it! The...
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    Nipple watering system ideas for large brooders?

    We have been fairy happy with nipple waterers in our breeding groups and want to add them to the brooder box. Looking for your ideas for nipple water system for chicks. We have a 6.5' x 3' brooder.We usually divide it in half as we hatch out about 70 to 100 chicks in staggered hatches. The...
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    Are your Chickens Happy with Sand in Runs?

    Several of our runs are rocky and I am thinking of adding a thick layer of sand on top of the ground. The coops are inside a old dairy barn. The ground where the runs are built is on a rock base, some soil, some larger rocks mostly burried in the ground and little rocks that just poop up from...
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    Showmanship-How young is too young (chicken age)

    What age of chicken would a judge consider to be too young for showmanship? My daughter is starting a pullet to use as her main showmanship bird, The Serama hen she has used for several years is getting older and showing age. The pullet would be 4 months old and would only be used for...
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    My Rooster's butt is very red, swollen and warm . . . I am going to try to post a picture. He seems

    Check the bath water and sink or whatever you soak him in for mite evidence. Tiny black specs, mites or mite poops. Also if you feel scabby type area on his belly-bottom area it probably is from mites. 2 of our boys had mites bad before we realized it, they lost feathers around the vent and...
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    Most Humane Way To Euthanize

    One of my 11 year old daughters hens needs to be culled, she knows it needs to be done but wants to have it done in the most humane way. Snap the neck, ax, ideas please
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    Dutch Bantams Breed Thread

    It's disapointing how little activity there is for Dutch on the forum. They are great little birds. I will have to post some pictures of my daughters Dutch and chicks, they are very cute and sweet.
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    Love my new nipple watering system!!!

    We have nipple jugs in our cops, love them. Started with 1 gallon Apple juice jugs as a trial, hubby is going to build pvc pipe system with heated water reservior for our winters. Just moved 3 & 4 week chicks out of the house brooder to a coop broader. It literally took them two minutes to...
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    Little Scaredy Chicks!

    Our oldests chicks, 3 to 6 weeks, are living in a "brooder" coop in the barn. Toasty warm and very bright with lots of room, they love it. It has been very warm and the side of our stone barn was covered with box elder beetles. I thought, wow, they snapped up the 2 beetles that were crawling on...
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    Alfalfa Sprouts for Chicks?

    Share away! Be prepared for feeding frenzy once they know what they are. My 11 year old daughter got a sprout kit for Christmas for her chickens, the chicks love them even more than the adults. She has bantams and starts giving the treats about 2 weeks of age. The love them, she feeds the little...
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    Good price for hardware cloth?

    The affair 48" did have free shipping in the past. We ordered 3 rolls in fall and was free to ship. Nice galvanized wire. Now it says the 48" is not eligible for free. I will do a bit of hunting to see if I can find it cheaper. It was good quality. The amazon is only 36".
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    Good price for hardware cloth?

    Wayfair! We ordered 3 rolls of 48" x 50'. Just checked them out again because we are putting in some more runs. Hubby made ours 4' in the front and then angled it up to attach to the side of our barn. It is walkable where the door is but then slpoes down. Saved alot on hardware cloth, the higher...
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    Sand Lovers, Advice Please for Runs!

    We are adding 8 runs for our breeding pens and are thinking about sand instead of grass which we know will quickly just turn to dirt= mud. Would love to have we them on grass but cant afford to make runs big enough for that. We do rotate groups out into the yard when were home so they have some...
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    Coop size for dutch bamtams

    You will love your Dutch, especially being able to raise them from day 1. I hope they hatch out well for you, we have found them very easy to hatch, have 40 older Dutch chicks in the barn in a coop we use as a big booder, 25 in the kitchen brooder and I'm not sure how many have hatched out...
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    Is a run important????

    Yes, please let them have a run. Your chickens will be so much happier and healthier. We would not want to live 24/7 in our bedroom nor would your chickens If they could talk they would be down on thier little chicken knees begging to go outside, dust bathe in the sun, chase bugs and do general...
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