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    Anybody have a peanut butter granola recipe?

    I've recently discovered the joy of making my own granola...it's relatively cheap (compared to store prices), it's delicious, and it's fast and easy! I want to try making some peanut butter granola, like a boxed kind I've bought before. Anybody have any good recipes? Amy
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    Any other cheesemakers out there?

    I just ordered my beginner's cheese kit from www.cheesemaking.com, and I'm about to make my very first batch of mozzarella after watching the DVD and reading the instructions 8,000 times. I'm very excited! So I'm wondering if anyone else out there makes their own cheese? Any thoughts on where I...
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    Japanese beetle trap for chicken run

    Hey gang, I haven't been around much lately because of school (I finally graduated from college--it only took me fifteen years!), but now I'm FREE. We have a serious Japanese beetle infestation on our property, the worst I've ever seen it. I now know it's too late to try anything like...
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    Are these guineas?

    Hi everyone! I need help identifying these birds. They showed up in my yard today, a total surprise. There were two, and they had made a nest next to my driveway under a large shrub. They were VERY noisy and also seemed kind of stupid (no offense to guinea owners if that's what these are!)...
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    HELP: blackening comb

    Someone recently posted about black spots on their hens' combs, and I also had the same problem. My girls (8 months old) all have small black specks on their combs. Well, this morning when I went to let them out, my poor Ophelia's comb is in bad shape; it's half black, and she also now has...
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    Anyone else do Square Foot Gardening?

    We're getting ready to build beds for our first vegetable/herb/flower garden, and I plan on using the mix the author of the SFG book recommends for soil (1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 compost). Anyone else ever used this? Success/no success? I can't use our soil as it's very heavy clay and...
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    Free adult Araucana bantams, breeding pairs and trios

    Hi everyone, I've been talking with a nice breeder in Eaton, Ohio who has several show Araucana bantams that he needs to find homes for; the birds are currently in Lexington, Kentucky, and he's giving them away for free because they're not in an ideal situation at the moment. If anyone is...
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    Show me pics: silver duckwing Araucanas

    Okay, this is the next one I want to see. I can't find any good pictures when I google this color. Anybody have any of these? Amy
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    Show me pics: blue/red splash Araucanas

    I'd love to see what this color looks like, gang...anyone out there got any to show me? Amy
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    Mixing standards and bantams

    Okay, I tried posting something along these lines earlier and got no responses. I have an opportunity to add 2-3 bantam Araucanas to my flock of 4 standard pullets. Can you "mix" standards and bantams? Also, if I have 4 standard pullets in a coop that has a 20' footprint (large run big enough...
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    Getting Araucanas: have questions about sizing, colors, etc.

    Hi everyone, I've contacted a breeder who shows Araucana bantams; he has several started chicks available, but I have some questions for you all first. Right now, I have a 4x5x7 foot coop (20' footprint). I have four large fowl birds in there now; could I fit two more bantams in there, safely...
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    Anyone have any chicks/pullets in Ohio?

    It seems like everyone who has chicks or pullets for sale lives everywhere but Ohio! I'd love to find another two chicks; I don't want day-olds again if I don't have to, but anything over a few weeks old would be great. I just want a good egg-laying breed, and I only want one or two pullets...
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    Egg overload: ack! Ideas?

    Hi everyone, I have 3 dozen eggs in the fridge, and no idea what to do with them. I'm going to hard boil a dozen of them, but that still leaves me with two dozen. Anyone have any ideas on recipes to use up eggs? I've cooked some and fed them back to the girls, I've fed some to the dogs, but I'm...
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    Ranch Eggs

    This is my all-time favorite egg recipe. It's so darn simple, and it tastes divine. These eggs are prepared like scrambled eggs, but don't taste the same; they're much creamier, and they actually keep quite well in the fridge as leftovers. I eat them wrapped in a warm whole wheat...
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    Bitter cold on the way: girls in the house?

    Geez, I'm gone for a week or two and I come back to find 37 pages about a dame with a crocodile in her yard...but not really. Good stuff! This weekend it's supposed to go down to 0, with wind chills at -10 to -20. My 250-watt heat lamp can't keep up with that kind of cold, and I'm afraid my...
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    Weird pre-laying behavior

    Zipper, my 6.5 m/o Dominique, has begun exhibiting some weird behaviors since she started laying about a month ago. It seems like it's bordering on obsessive-compulsive, and she's the only one who does it. She steps in and out of the coop, repeatedly. This doesn't sound weird, except that it...
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    How much scratch?

    I keep a standard-sized coffee mug in my bag of scratch, and I've been giving one or two mugs a day to my girls. But in this cold weather, is more okay? Can I give them four or five mugs a day? I have four, 6.5 month old pullets...I know you're not supposed to overdo scratch or they can get fat...
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    Wyandotte combs?

    I got Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens as a Christmas gift, and on page 3, there's an interesting chart with the different styles of combs listed. It says that Wyandottes are supposed to have rose combs, but my GLW girl has a huge single comb! Apparently the chart says that some breeds have...
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    Monster egg!!!

    I got an ENORMOUS egg from one of my girls today: 2.7 ounces! USDA jumbo, according to the website, is 2.5 ounces!! The others are in the range of 1.5-1.7 ounces. I have no idea who laid it, but geez, it looked painful. Anyone else ever get eggs this big? Amy
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    What time do your girls lay their eggs?

    Well, I've gotten a grand total of three eggs now: my very first egg was yesterday, and then I got two today. I always assumed that chickens laid their eggs in the morning, but yesterday's egg came about the same time as today's second egg (late afternoon). This morning I found one when I let...
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