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    Granpa's Automatic treadle feeder

    Thoughts on this brand feeder? Its expensive...is the cheaper version on Amazon any good (its $50 compared to $109). TIA!
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    mealworm larvae in the run?

    With the ridiculous price on mealworms, I am considering getting live ones and breeding them to have a constant supply. My question is my pullets have a 4 ft x 12 ft run where I have grass clippings, leaves, and hay as bedding (deep litter) for warm this winter. I was raking around today...
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    Laying after lock up

    For two days straight I have found a cold egg first thing in the morning around 8ish, when I let the ladies out of the coop. I do one last egg check and lock up at around 5pm and sunsets have been about 5:30ish. I know one girl lays first thing in the morning at 8:39 and she is usually the...
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    Neat box aversion

    So my Barred rocks just started laying last week. Now that they're more of a steady schedule, Khaleesi, the first pullet to lay in the morning has developed a bad habit of taking the dummy eggs out of the egg boxes and making her own nest on the coop floor/bedding. Then the other girls see where...
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    When will my Barred Rock hens lay? Hatched July 13

    They were shipped to me July 15 so they're almost 24 weeks! But! Its Dec 27 and we're in Michigan. We've lost a ton of daylight and its cloudy a lot. We try to let them free range in the backyard still but we had a ton of snow on the ground last few weeks so they've mostly stayed in the run. I'm...
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