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    help for a newbie! sick hen

    I feel terrible! I just inherited some chickens (abandoned by neighbors) a couple months ago. Because of wild life attacks they had to no longer be allowed to free range, and seeing them peck each other I assumed this new boredom was the cause of a couple of the hens losing feathers. But about...
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    Switching to a whole grain feed

    Question I read this on the site of the food I am planning on changing my girls to: " Use whole grain for 5% of the diet for the first two weeks to adapt the gizzard, then, over a couple of weeks more, increase the percentage to whatever level you have decided to feed. Birds fed whole grains...
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    Hens with clipped beaks - feeding veggie scraps

    I have been wanting to get into having chickens for a while - and some just landed in my lap! So I am a newbie with 8 hens and a rooster - neighbors are moving and couldn't/wouldn't? take the chickens with them - so they have been given to us. And the hens' beaks are all clipped. They have been...
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    Truly natural quail - anyone with experience?

    Getting ready to start some quail - and if we are going to do this work, want to maximize the healthy natural nutrition that can be gained from the eggs. That being said, I'd like to avoid commercial feeds even so called organic ones. For the older quail we have a large area to tractor our small...
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