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    Elector PSP Offer

    Someone suggested that my girls had lice. So I bought some PSP. It seems to be working. BUT, I feel like I got ripped off. I spend $150 on 8 ounces of PSP. I only used about a teaspoon of it. So... If anyone wants/needs PSP, let me know. I can send you a little (1-5 teaspoons). Or I can...
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    Another... Found bird dead. What killed it? Heart attack?

    So, my coop and run are very predator proof. All openings are poultry fence with 1/4" opening. Poultry fence is buried 1' out of all sides. All doors are latched shut. This morning, I found that something had pawed the ground around the entire coop. It did not dig far enough to reach the...
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    Do neighborhood covenants expire when all lots are sold

    Someone told me that covenants were mostly for builders and that they expired when all lots were sold. After that, the neighbors had to get together to decide if/how to extend them. Has anyone ever heard this before?
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    When do they start laying regularly after first egg

    Hello, I have 6 red sex links. They are 21 weeks old. We found our first soft-shell egg 10 days ago. We found our first hard-shell egg 8 days ago. It has been 8 more days. Since then, we've got about 5 total eggs. They have all been in the same nest box and quite small. What's up? I...
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    Skunk odor removal

    I saw skunks mentioned in other threads. Folks talked about a 2 week quarantine for dogs that tangled with skunks. Such a quarantine is not needed. This remedy really works (much better than typical solutions like tomato juice). I have bird hunting dogs. They've had several run-ins with...
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    Fermented feeds - does it really cut food use in half?

    Hello, I've seen ths claim many times. I'm skpetical... Do factory chicke farms use fermented feeds? They work very hard and constantly monitor growth per pound of feed. Factory farms also have large university research groups behind them. They have plenty of resources to evaluate...
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    Chicken poop and asparagus plants

    Can I put chicken poop directly on asparagus plants? Old timers tell me that asparagus loves nitrogen and can't really get too much nitrogen. So they said to put the poop right in the asparagus bed, the more the better... thoughts?
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    "biosecurity" and chicken coop tour

    Madison Wisconsin has a fairly active backyard chicken group ("backyard" with small B because i don't think they are associated with BYC.com). The group is MadCityChickens.com The group is a having a coop tour. http://madcitychickens.com/images/coop_tour2014.jpg The tour sounds like great...
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    Solid walls for run to hide chickens from neighbors

    My hen house and run are framed: I was planning on using T111 siding for the hen house and just hardware cloth for the run. BUT... Chickens aren't officially welcome in my subdivision. So I was thinking of just putting T111 around the entire thing and making the coop look like a 6'x10' shed...
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    Building a coop that hides chickens from neighbors

    I am building my wife a coop. She has always wanted chickens. I bought her 6 chicks on her birthday. Now, they are living in a brooder in the kitchen. We went around and round. Finally, she selected a coop. It is basically a cross between three coops in the Backyard Chickens book...
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    Is framing needed for small coop

    Hello, This is my first post. I have 6 chicks that are about 1 week old. Now I'm working on building a coop... I am thinking of 4' x 6' coop. I have looked at nearly all the plans on backyardchickens. I've seen some coops that have full 2x4 framing like a house. But I've seen others...
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