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    How do you manage your compost to stop your chickens eating rotting food and getting sick?

    I had seen this and it looks brilliant. I'm guessing that he maybe doesn't deal with much mould due to climate, or perhaps the sheer number of chickens means any tasty mould prone fruits (like strawberries) just don't last long enough to get mouldy.
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    How do you manage your compost to stop your chickens eating rotting food and getting sick?

    Thank you everyone for your replies. I'm quite happy with our current set up (except that it takes up a lot of space in our chicken free area) but was curious about those who choose to have open set ups that their chickens have free access to (I've read more than a few posts in here where people...
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    How do you manage your compost to stop your chickens eating rotting food and getting sick?

    I'm interested in hearing from people who allow their chickens to free roam on their compost heaps as I'm confused about the risk posed by them eating rotting or mouldy food. I know we aren't supposed to allow chickens to eat food like this, but I'm completely confused about how to prevent it if...
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    Keeping Them In? (Master Escapees)

    We had a fence that was about the same height and I watched one of my girls jump straight up onto the top of it (bare wire), and then flap down over the other side. She hadn't even flapped her wings getting up there, it was just a straight jump. If I hadn't actually seen her do it I probably...
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    Good buy?

    That looks really great.
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    I Need Some Advice

    ...understand why this leaves a bad taste in your mouth as it sounds like they are saying to expect to be disappointed with their product, but what I *think* they mean is that sometimes when looking at photos, people can make incorrect assumptions about scale even if the measurements are clearly...
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    Unusually Large Egg - Surprise! 1 in 25 million!

    That's really cool. She's a pretty hen, what breed is she, please?
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    Before and After!

    Looks fantastic!
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    Review by 'Squeakles' in article 'Dust bathing – Why, where and how? Keeping your flock clean and happy.'

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    Review by 'Squeakles' in article 'Chickens Loosing Feathers? Managing Your Flock's Molt'

    The photos really helped clarify the difference for me between hard and soft molts.
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    Leaner hens since increased ranging space:

    Further update: it's likely worms are an issue, despite no other indications. I have since sighted worms and eggs in one's poops so will be working tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who replied.
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    Is this worms in her poop? *Photo included*

    As an Aussie I'm probably not in the best position to comment. Have you seen the wing nuts we generally elect?
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    Is this worms in her poop? *Photo included*

    Odd Canadian humour sounds very similar to odd Australian humour.
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    Is this worms in her poop? *Photo included*

    I spent the afternoon watching my chicken's poop (I know how to party, clearly) and I have found the possible cause: worms. Whilst I didn't witness any of my girls do the watery poop, I did see eggs and worms in a fresh poop. Glad I saw it straight after she did it, as the sneaky buggers had...
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    Is this worms in her poop? *Photo included*

    I haven't been able to find another that looks like it. I just went out and poop scooped my yard, and all the poops since I looked this morning are normal looking (solid, brown, white cap, or the occasional dark brown, stinky cecal poop). The chicken I suspect it came from (our oldest, ex...
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    Is this worms in her poop? *Photo included*

    I found this poop on our path this morning, so I'm unsure of which of my three girls it has come from (could also be a wild bird as we have a LOT of big, wild birds where we are - galahs, cockatoos, corellas, crows, magpies etc). All overnight coop poops are good (firm, btown with white cap...
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    Raising mealworms

    I ended up making the setup in the following video. I found the one tank technique got messy quickly for me ( what with all the skin shedding, pooping, and dead mealworms,) but I didn't want a three drawer system as that seemed a little too complicated for me to maintain.
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    Raising mealworms

    I started doing this a month or so ago and was starting to lose faith that they'd ever turn into pupa, but they finally did. It's quite cool to watch them grow. I agree, the article above is great. I'm super excited to see if they make it to egg laying beetle stage.
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    Leaner hens since increased ranging space:

    I'm very keen to hear about how this has worked for you. I'm sprouting some seeds of this in the next few weeks so I can get an indoor headstart on them before planting in spring. I'd always rather go as natural as possible as long as it's still effective. Do you just give them handfuls of it...
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    Leaner hens since increased ranging space:

    I'm posting here to update, in case anyone finds this thread and wonders what the outcome/cause was: My chickens are all ok, but were definitely suffering from a lack of sufficient calories from all the grass they were eating. My hens were purchased from a less-than-reputable source and we...
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