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  1. La Banan

    Rib Sticking Oatmeal For The Birds

    Ingredients: 3 heaping c. old-fashioned oatmeal 5 heaping tbsp cracked flax seeds 1/4 heaping c. sesame seeds 1 heaping c. raisons 1/2 c. bacon fat or leftover gravy 4 approx. old banged up apples 2 bunches chopped up vegetable parings bunches of whatever you have about - old bread, rice...
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    La Banans Page

    Hi, my name is Jan and I live in Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia. We live in a four season part of the world where spring is long and wet and falls are warm and wonderful. I got my second set of chickens August 1st, 2008 and they spent their early youth in my former study in a brooder I made out of a...
  3. Babes Hideout

    Babes Hideout

    Babes' Hideout This is the story of how Babes' Hideout got built. We began with an old shed which we moved via boat trailer from the home we rent to the one we live in. We hauled the trailer with the shed on top around our house by hand and put it in its final spot using an ingenious system of...
  4. La Banan

    Winter management poll

    Quote: - excellent - they love the winter - we think it is a mistake to let them get used to heat lamps etc...because power can be iffy (wind and ice storms) so they are aclimatized. We have heritage breeds because they are tougher and we use wide planks so their tootsies don't get cold. Our...
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    How to Prepare Your Flock For Winter 101 *Official Thread*

    I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. Now some of the bluenosers as we're called live in the valley where it is a bit colder than those of us by the sea but generally we have a pretty moderate winter compared to ...say Manitoba! Or Ontario! Or for you Yanks - Minnesota. However it is considerably...
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    What do you use to entertain your chickens in your run?

    I'm with emvickry - they entertain us! I gave them my whole yard to play in - almost two acres plus a cliff and a bit of a swamp. I didn't mean to but I gave them a sweet mama squash that had been growing nice and fat on the wrong side of the garden fence - we thought at first it was racoons but...
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    Tell the truth - how clean is YOUR coop?

    hmmm....scary, very scary! I use the deep doo doo method. Whoops I mean the deep litter method. Only not so much in the summer. I will clean it tomorrow or that was my plan -all I'll do is shovel out all the stuff that's there and get new stuff to put on top. I'll sprinkle some DE through it...
  8. La Banan

    What sort of latches do you use?

    We put a three part opener on our door. It has two different pieces of wood that latch it and then a simple nail that goes through two pieces. I have pics on my BYC page so it will make sense. The thing to remember is to make something your average to smart three year old can't figure out how to...
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    Tuf-Climate Coop Reviews

    Yikes! I'm with the gang that says buy a garden shed and make it yours for half the price. I live in Nova Scotia. It isn't cold cold like Manitoba or Minnesota but it is a heck of a lot colder than TN! We don't have an insulated coop. I do the deep litter thing in the winter and I made sure to...
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    When to "kick them out of the house"?

    Hi! I have two chicks that are almost six weeks old. They were hatched by a hen so she protects them. Our gang gets out everyday about 7:30 am until they head themselves home before dusk. The mother hen (probably not the bio-ma but she thinks she is) watches them carefully still. We have hawks...
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    How do I get broody Hen back with the flock?

    Our broody hen hatched two out of the six eggs she was sitting. We've kept the whole works of them together but the broody one and two chicks had a dog kennel within the coop so they could be a little private. Now mama keeps them in the corner under the roost (I know I know!) They range all day...
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    two so far...

    Hi ya all! Fuzz Butts doing good. We took one in as she was a bit slow and either pecked or scraped on the back. We kept her in a brooder box for a couple of days and gave her extra loving. both days we took her out to hang with her mama and sister (yes we are hopeful!!) and all was fine...
  13. La Banan

    two so far...

    Here is Mama Crow and her two new chicks...don't know if there will be any more but we like them!
  14. La Banan

    two new chicks in the neighborhood

    Yesterday, our black australorpe - Crow - hatched a baby chick and today there was another. There are four eggs left so we hope to see the whole brood make it! This is a first for us and we are all pretty proud!! go to www.labanan.blogspot.com to see the photos! I think.
  15. La Banan

    One day old chick several days behind the other with a broody...

    Hi! I think you should leave mama hen to raise the wee one. But I REALLY have no idea and the real reason I'm posting is because we just went outside to check the eggs under our brooody hen, Crow, and found a chick and one pipped! And furthermore I live in Nova Scotia so when I saw your thing I...
  16. La Banan

    July 1st hatching ..DAY 23 for a few of us!

    hi y'all! We've got Crow, a black Australorpe, sitting on six eggs due between June 28 and the 1st. (we put them under as they were laid by the other girls). I haven't candled. Didn't even occur to me or my sweet patootie. Hmm..kind of scared to do it now. Don't want to know. On the other hand -...
  17. La Banan

    If you could live anywhere in the US...

    I was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Too dry, good corn, rattlesnakes. I lived in Rivers, Manitoba - not there anymore, Edmonton, Alberta - really toooooo cold - Osgoode, Merivale Gardens, Oakville and Ottawa all in Ontario - OK especially the Ottawa Valley but too far from the ocean. I lived in...
  18. La Banan

    Canadian!!

    I live in Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia. Buddha country! Jan
  19. La Banan

    Keeping Chickens in Urban Nova Scotia

    Here are two letters from yesterday's Chronicle Herald - the main newspaper of Halifax, Nova Scotia: Voice of the people Tue. Feb 10 - 4:46 AM Issue no joke Your article "Who allows urban chickens?" (Feb. 5) plays up the idea that the urban chicken debate is a waste of time and resources...
  20. La Banan

    Och aye! This'll put feathers on their chests!

    YIKES! I'll have to check my gangs feet - only they just seem to gobble it down so... today I mixed bacon grease in it and I thought they'd swoon with delight.
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