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    Introducing young pullets to older hens

    Sounds good. I do have 1/2 bag of medicated feed left. Would it hurt the adult hens for me to mix it with the grower feed until it is gone. It's either that or toss it.
  2. marie

    Introducing young pullets to older hens

    It is time for me to introduce my pullets (16 weeks old) to my older flock. So far I have been feeding the pullets the medicated chick feed. My older hens get 20% layer feed. I have heard that it is not good for young hens that are not laying yet to eat the layer feed because of the calcium in...
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    my rooster has collapsed and cannot get up

    Went out to the coop this morning and my rooster was just sitting on the floor. I tried to help him to get up but he has no muscle tone in one leg and just a little in the other. He just sits there. He is able to eat and drink if I put it all near enough to him. None of my hens seem to be...
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    Feeding chickens for cheap

    Good grief! I can't believe that I am feeding my chickens so much more than any of you on this thread. I have 18 chickens (one is a rooster) and I go through a 50# bag ($20) of Albers Layer pellets (20% protein) a week! That's $100 per month! My chickens are outside in the garden (50" by...
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    BOSS or Scratch?

    Do chickens eat the BOSS shell and all or does it come shelled? I've thought of giving my girls some but worried that they wouldn't know how to shell them.
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    egg laying

    I have 12 hens and was getting around 9 or 10 eggs a day in the summer. But, now that the days are getting shorter and darker there are days that I do not get any eggs. My average is around 2 eggs a day. Most of my hens are Americaunas. Are there breeds that continue to lay in the winter...
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    broodiness

    Yes, Sally, you are right. The book was written by Minnie Rose Lovgreen and she and her husband did have a farm on Bainbridge Island. In it Minnie also suggests putting a bunch of plastic/glass eggs in the nest and saving the real eggs in a cool place. Then, when the hen is setting pretty...
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    broodiness

    I have an old booklet written by an 87 yr old woman who had chickens most of her life. In it she suggests that you can encourage a hen to be broody by not feeding her egg layer food, increasing her diet of grains, and providing her with a quiet, dark place to set up her nest. Has anyone had...
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    clipping wings

    I hate to do it but I'm going to have to clip my chicken's wings. There are times that I need to keep them in their yard and out of our gardens. Their yard is too huge to cover. I hear that you can clip just one or two strategic feathers. Can anyone tell me how to do this?...........Marie
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    is my hen setting, moulting or what?

    One of my hens has started staying on the nest. She gets off maybe once a day. I know this because when she gets back on she gets into a different nest each time. Since she has started staying on the nest I've been putting eggs under her. She now has around 6 eggs under her but she leaves...
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    new/old member

    I joined BYC almost a year ago but have not spent much time at the site. Recently I've been thinking how nice it would be to be more interactive with a group of people who love raising chickens as much as I do. I have tried to find others locally who have chickens but (other than the neigbors...
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    weak legs

    Okay, I will move back to the chick starter & see if my feed store sells the chick vitamins....Well, the feed store sold me 9 Araucana chicks but after doing some research I'm pretty sure they are not Araucana. They do have the puffy cheek feathers (sooo cute) but it looks as if they have tail...
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    weak legs

    Hi, I've just moved them from Albers Chick Starter to Albers All-Purpose feed. Their droppings are brown and abit loose. I realize now that I made a mistake in not handling them when they were younger because it was quite an ordeal getting ahold of the one with the problem. The guy at the...
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    weak legs

    I'm raising my first 9 chickens (Araucana-supposedly). They are now 8 weeks old and fully feathered. One of them is a bit larger than the others and I suspect that it may be a rooster. I have noticed that s/he cannot stand for long before he sinks down on his hocks to rest. S/he is able to...
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