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    Best Plants for Chickens to Forage On

    Will alfafa survive during winter? I live in Virginia.
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    Best Waterer for a Mobile Coop?

    For your mobile coop, I think rabbit waterer may work: http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/lm-animal-farmstrade%3B-wide-mouth-water-bottle-64-oz
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    Can chickens eat figs?

    Figs contains 3% of protein, which is not too much! Just for your information.
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    What food can I raise?

    Quick question: How do you raise stuff for chickens using this system? I just get lost.
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    What food can I raise?

    My opinion: If I save grass clipping successfully this year, I will raise rabbits along with chickens. Why? 1. When process rabbit, scrap meat will be for chickens, and their meat are extremely high in protein (more than 90%). 2. It is free to feed them all year. 3. Chicken will scratch over...
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    Sweet Potato Leaves

    Which fodder is it? Is it growing fodder?
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    Informal Survey - What do you feed and why?

    Wheat free choice all day to fill them up. Southern State tradition laying feed 16% free choice from 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm: to make them to eat just what they need since they are full by that time. Clover: about 5 gallon bucket per day since clover is high in protein. When clover is gone, I plan to...
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    Sweet Potato Leaves

    Thank you so much! I think that is it.
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    Sweet Potato Leaves

    Another question: what plant is this? Is it walnut?
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    Sweet Potato Leaves

    Thank you all. It is good to know that they are safe for chicken. They are about 28% of protein. And they are easy and cheap to grow, too.
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    Sweet Potato Leaves

    And they are really high in protein.
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    Sweet Potato Leaves

    Can chickens eat sweet potato leaves? Note: sweet potato leaves are edible for human beings.
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    Commercial Chicken Food Longevity

    How do stores (Tractor Supply, Southern States) do with feed that they cannot sell within 30 days?
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    can chickens eat papaya seeds

    My opinion: feed anything. They don't eat what is harmful for them.
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    Convenient ways to feed 30+ chickens

    Build your gravity-fed feeder with 3 5-gallon buckets stacking on each other, then hang it. It prevent mice problem, and could hold around 75 lbs of feed.
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    Suggestions for a small feeder and waterer for about 4 hens in a small coop

    For feeder, I suggest you to hang about 12 in - 18 in above ground so you don't need to deal with mice, and free up space. For waterer, 1-gallon waterer is good enough, and it needs to sit on 2 cinder blocks. Don't hang your waterer.
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    FIRE HAZARD with submersible aquarium heaters

    I will use metal tank or glass fish tank
  18. nguyenkinhphuc2

    Why do you homestead?

    My opinion: Start your homestead as soon as possible. It will not happen overnight. And when you retire, you may not have enough energy to work on it. For my case: it takes me several years to have garden and chickens.
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    Simple Water System

    Fish tank + fish tank heater
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    Have roost but hens won't use - HELP

    Question: my chicken run with attached chicken coop is pretty moisture during spring time. Is there any way to train young chickens to stay away from ground at night?
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