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    Anyone tried DRIED darkling beetle treats for hens?

    So, I bought a bag of dried darkling beetles at a well-known big box online store. I thought I would "mix-things-up" a little and add something new to my girls breakfast blend I make for them, which has a whole host of nutritious things in it. After the bag arrived, I decided to consult Dr...
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    Can't keep my 15 wk old pullets from eating the layer feed, help

    I've read a ton of information that says, "do not feed layer feed to pullets under 18 weeks." And I understand why after everything I've read, but this is nearly impossible to accomplish with a mixed flock. I initially fed everyone the grower feed, but even with available oyster shell in...
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    Brooder Separate Heat & Light Combo - Inquiry

    We built our first brooder. My natural intuition and inclination says baby chicks raised by their mommy go to sleep at night under their mommy's feathers and it's dark. So, we designed the pictured set up with a full spectrum light bulb in the center (on a timer that turns on at dawn and off...
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    EE has had liquid poop for over a year????

    We adopted some backyard hens from a client almost 2 years ago. Our EE, Marge, has been a good and consistent layer and looks perfectly healthy, eats and drinks just fine and does not have a poopy or pasty butt. However, she consistently has very liquidy poop. It is early February in Northern...
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    Hen has liquid diarrhea, she's been wormed, treated with Corid, etc.

    We have a very small backyard flock, 4 hens. We had 5 but our more senior EE just passed away just after Christmas after a long bout of the same symptoms our RIR now is exhibiting. I noticed a little blood in the diarrhea with the EE weeks ago and read several posts that indicated it might be...
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    Introducing new pullets to an existing flock of 4 hens w/limited yard space

    I suppose this is a bit more of an article than a post, but I felt it was worth sharing. In reading through countless posts on BYC and several other Internet resources I was unable to find a suitable solution for introducing hens or pullets to an existing small flock (4 hens) in an urban...
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    Successfully treated our hen 4x for egg yolk peritonitis - here's what I did

    We adopted 4 adult hens from a client in March 2016. One of the hens, Penny (Ameraucana), has now survived a few episodes of egg peritonitis. We're not sure why she has had so many issues with laying (the first issue with her was egg bound and she passed a rubber egg following an epsom salt...
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    Just Completed Our New Chicken Coop

    I spent a fair amount of time browsing BYC's website, Pinterest & YouTube looking at a wide variety of chicken coop designs. I then looked at pre-fab coops (too expensive). After marinating in the borage of design concepts I'd seen, I designed our coop and enlisted the help of my husband and...
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