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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Some "crops" are very sensitive to temperatures and wont spout unless everything is just right. Too hot or too cold and they just won't sprout. Also, if the oats are designed for feed they may have been "clipped" where they cut the end off the oat so that it is less bulky. If this has been done...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Oats rarely sprout well (except in the paddock where you've had hay - for some reason they sprout really well there). Most of the oats that you buy from feed stores are clipped and dressed. It makes them transport much better but takes some of the kernel off the oat - they tend not to grow after...
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    Chicken Swollen Eyes

    aside from anything else, she cant see at all and the others will pick on her
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    Chicken Swollen Eyes

    Done that
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    Chicken Swollen Eyes

    I let my hens out this morning and all were fine. I've come home late this evening (right on dark) to find one of the hens has both eyes swollen shut. I've rinsed them with saline until I could open them and put some antibiotic eye ointment in them. Just wondering if there's anything else I...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

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    Australians - Where are you all????

    How old is she? This time of the year a lot of them go off laying (comes with the cold weather). They stop laying, may or may not moult, then start laying again as the days get longer again (after the 21st of June). Once they're past a certain age - usually between 2 and 3 - their laying can...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Provided the oats aren't "clipped and dressed" they will grow (basically treated by cutting off the end to make them smaller so they will fit in the bag). The only problem with oats is that they don't form a good root mass so the sprouts/fodder doesn't hold together as well. They also seem to...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Cook it like rice. When you can squish/break it with your finger it's done. So long as they have grit they can break it up and digest it. Just don't overfeed them to begin with. Are you feeding a starter crumble with or as their feed?
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    Growing fodder for chickens

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    Growing fodder for chickens

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    Growing fodder for chickens

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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Yes you need to feed grit if you're feeding fodder to chicks. I feed it to mine from about 3 days old. By the time they're a week old they mob you for it.
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    Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

    Sooooooo cute! Congrats
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    Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

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    Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

    Congrats to 8 what has she called her?
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    Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

    Congrats - I've got a single lone gosling running around with 9 protective mumma's and 1 protective dadda.... Where abouts are you (I'm out Bakers Hill - near Northam)
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    Egg Laying Issue

    If you get a raw egg (shell and all) and put it in a jar with vinegar it will turn rubbery (feels very odd) So that may be part of the problem. Personally I agree with the "needs more greens" which will provide folate which will increase calcium absorption. Also, most greens have large amounts...
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    Geese Housing

    I put a whole bale on a wooden pallet in a corner then lean a heavy gate over it (wire with 1 inch gaps) as they pull the hay through, the gate moves down. When it gets low I take the gate out so they don't get trapped by it. I also use this for when they're nesting but leave a gap behind the...
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    Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

    sounds like it might be time to clip a wing
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