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    when to start feeding grit to pullets

    I have 14 young pullets of about 14 weeks of age. I was watching them eat today and started wondering... How old should they be to start feeding some sort of grit to them? Im sure it has been answered before but I have not loged on in a while and still figuring this new look out.
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    Looking back at silly questions

    I was just thinking now that I have gotten used to chickens, about some of the silly things I have asked on here. Of course at the time they were not silly to me at all but now that I am more educated on it they are. So here is my challenge to you all. Reply to this thread with one of the silly...
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    When to start offering a dust bath to young pullets

    SO I have aquired 10 GC pullets that I put in with my 4 youngsters I hatched myself. Out of the 14 there is one cockereal. One of my GC will eat for a while, then start rolling in the feed. Im guessing for the dust. Are they too young to be giving a dust bath or should I put something in there...
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    whats this mean?

    Now I know this is probably not the right place for it but I can not figure out the best place for it. SO I am posting it here because the people in this thread are verry helpful and friendly. Now I have seen this abreviation DH all over this site. What in the world does this mean?
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    laws bout selling to markets in KY

    Can anyone tell me where to start my search on selling eggs and meat birds to a market? I want to see what all is involved to see if it will be worth the headache and my time. Thank you in advance
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    Total confusion

    I have black sex-link hens, 1 banty (looks like a blue Del, cross.) and 2 of the full size versions. and one what i thought was a white leghorn cross. I have no idea what the crosses are because the crosses We got from an amish guy that did not know exactly what they were. Since I have been...
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    size requirement

    I was talking to a guy today that had chickens. I met him at walmart. Never before in my life had I ever met this guy. He just came up to me and started talking. He found out that I had a few chickens, and boy was it on... ... He wanted me to see all his chickens. So he invited me to his house...
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    effects of feeding black pepper?

    I was talking to my mom yesterday morning and she was telling me that her grandmother used to give the chickens black pepper when the egss started slowing down. Now keep in mind this was back around the 20-30's. So I got to thinking what would it do to my chickens if I fed them black pepper. So...
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    feeding Chickens Black pepper

    I was talking to my mom yesterday morning and she was telling me that her grandmother used to give the chickens black pepper when the egss started slowing down. Now keep in mind this was back around the 20-30's. So I got to thinking what would it do to my chickens if I fed them black pepper. So...
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    Great link on marek's disease

    I have a 11 week old chick that I witnessed I believe vomit earlier. So I began a search of what could be wrong. Decided to look into symptoms of marek's disease. I found this page and amazingly enough it is in fairly easy terms to understand. Just thought I would share this with you...
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    Nesting Boxes

    Now I know that Chickens like privacy as they lay an egg. I also know that they prefer their box to be up off the ground some. But is there a certain type or design of box that they prefer over others? Or is this just a guess and check game?
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    keeping water from freezing

    Im sure this has been talked about before, but is there anything you can add to water to keep it from freezing that will not harm the chickens? i was wondering this in an attempt to not use a water warming device. not that im anti water warmer they are just expencive.
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    I probably messed up but I think its fixable

    Ok My MIL has 4 chicks a little over a month old. Im not sure of the excact breeds because the person I got the hatching eggs from wasnt sure herself. It was more of an experiment to try my hand at hatching eggs. Well we had a terrible hatch rate, but it was a definate learning experience. Out...
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    hens laying in the rafters

    I have my hens in a green house with open rafters. my egg count went from about 10-12 eggs a day from 12 hens to 2 every other day. Now I know it is getting to be winter but that was too drastic all at once. So I began investigating. Even though they have 3 nest boxes( in which I have only...
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    5week old chicks inside

    My MIL has 4, 5 week old chicks in her basement now. She had them in the kitchen for a week in a rediculously large pot. setting on the stove. and yes oven stayed on low for the week. I finally built her a small cage for them. It is about 18 inch cube with 4 inch legs keeping it off the floor...
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    First Chicks!!

    We just got our first 3 chicks today and lastnight, The first one came yesterday about 3pm CST and one last night sometime in the night. The other one just came fairly recently. My MIL decided to bring them in a shoe box to show me.. lol I will post pics once they load or after work
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    getting rid of mites

    my hens have mites. i have tried de but nothing happened. what else can i do?
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    confuzzlement

    I am hatching eggs athat are on day 21 today and can hear some of them peeping in the shell. There is no pips zips, or anything of the nature. Is this normal, wired or what?
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    humidity question

    I kinda bit off a little more than I think I was ready for trying to incubate eggs. Well not really just wish I was a litte more prepared. I was given some hatching eggs to try my hand at incubating. Come to find out after 4 days of incubating one group of the eggs had been set on for" about a...
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    LED's and candling

    Im sure it has been brought up before but do LED lights work any better for candling eggs? I have brown eggs and a regular flashlight works but barely
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