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    Are grass clippings bad for your chickens?

    I don't use weed & feed on the back yard & had given my hens some grass clippings. I was told that the residue from gas & oil in the lawnmower could be harmful. With mowing season just around the corner I want to know if it is safe or not. I know no better peeps to ask than BYC. I have...
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    Hen acting broody with no eggs

    Last year I bought two EEs that I thought were about 10 months old. Later I found out that one was closer to two years. Now she is 2 1/2 to 3 years old. Monday she made her a nest in the chicken yard & will only leave it to eat & drink. Yesterday she laid a egg. She got off her nest & laid...
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    When to move from brooder to coop

    Let me start off by THANKING all who have helped me with my first year of backyard eggs! Haven't lost a chick or hen. I will be getting some pullets this spring & I would like to know at what age to put the new pullets in with my laying hens? I have heard stories of the hens pecking the...
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    Pecked on old hen

    I have an older hen who has almost stopped laying. In the last two weeks the other chickens have started pecking at her wing joints. The first joint from the tip. They have both sides bloody. I have put her in the isolation cage for now. Can I stop this? Is it because she is old? I can't...
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    Sexlink egg colors

    I have one black sexlink & two golden sexlinks. They haven't been laying for long, about two weeks. My question is, do black sexlinks lay darker eggs than the golden sexlinks for a reason or is it just luck of the draw? The black sexlink eggs are always a couple shades darker. My grandson...
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    Araucaunas?????

    I got two 10 month old hens yesterday. I was told they are Araucaunas. I am a NEWBIE!!! Are they, if not what are they?? HELP
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    Recycle chicken feed bags ideas wanted

    At our local feed store they had the cutiest flake carrier made of old feed bags. Now I want to make something out of my old bags. Any ideas & patterns?
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    Hello from a newbie

    I got my very first pullets a week & a half ago. I turned one of my guinea pig cages into a brooder. Am building a coop & yard on the south side of my garage. The City I live in now allows 6 laying hens. Couldn't wait to start. I have one GREAT concern! My yard has been visited by mnt...
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