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Mine get free choice Layer feed. Fodder in the morning with a little scratch to heat up their little bodies. They give me lots of eggs all winter long with bright yellow yolks.

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I have the same question. Right now I am swapping waterers out three to four times a day. But I hate that the girls have frozen water in the morning. I usually don't get to the barn until about a half hour after sunrise and I'd like for them to be able to get a drink before I get out there.

I grow fodder for my girls (and my horses) every winter. At first it was an experiment, but all the animals loved it and I saw benefits within a few weeks. Chickens were laying more eggs and the yolks were beautiful! Horses were calmer and their coats were shinier. What turned the corner for...

Queenie - she's the boss Henri - she was the most personable pullet. She's still got quite a personality . Brownie - she's brown Feathers - she has a couple weird wing feathers Lil Judy - one of the ladies who works for my husband wanted one named after her. :) Greasy - For a long time...

A few years ago, I bought a bag of oats for my horse and put it in a tote. I didn't notice the bugs until a couple weeks later when I had a nightmare of little worms crawling all around my stable. Up the walls.... on the ceiling.... eww! everything I touched had a little worm. It was like living...

We lost one chicken to a hawk last year. I watched it happen. It was devastating! I chased the hawk away so he didn't get to enjoy the fruits. We started staggering the times we let them out. They now get out for several hours, but it's not on a schedule that the hawks can learn.

I feed my girls fodder in the morning and pellets at night. We go through much less pellets than we used to and our eggs seem better tasting. Summer will be here soon and I will not be supplying them fodder while they are able to free range. I will still give them pelleted feed at night. I...

My poop board slides out from outside the coop. I love it! After I pull it out and dump the poop, I sprinkle a little PDZ on it and slide it back in. I bought a coop from Horizon Structures. Here is a page that shows how it works. I'm sure you could build something like this into your coop...

Wow! What a great idea!

It costs very little to jump in and make your own fodder. Do a google search for "fodder for chickens". You will find tons of information. I got an ebook from amazon.com that helped me a lot. It has all the information I needed all in one little package that I can take to the barn with me...

6 for 6 Amazing when you consider we've had below zero temps for 5 weeks now. They haven't even thought about slowing down production. I'm sure the fresh fodder they get daily helps. (It sure gives them beautiful yolks!)

In my experience, one pound of dry seed - soaked for 4 hours and left (drained) in bucket for a day and a half - then spread 1/4 inch thick in a 10 X 20 tray produces 8 pounds of fodder. I know many people do put the seeds deeper (1/2 inch or so), but 1/4 inch works better for me. Once you...

Actually, no. I used about a cup of water. I wanted to make sure they got it all.

I had one chicken who had a little bit of a dirty butt before treatment. I wasn't sure what caused it. We do have a few barn swallows that try to get the chickens to share food.... I wormed my horse two weeks go and held back about 2 cc's of the ivermectin and added it to a bowl of water. I...

zazouse, I love your run!

I'm so sorry to hear about your loss! We've had neighbors dogs TRY to get ours. We can only let our girtls free range when we are out. Burying the fence will probably help and electric fence will also help. I have a friend who actually built a foundation and buried the bottom of the fence in...

We let our chickens free range for several hours a day, but the rest of the day they are in the run. We built it so that half of it has a roof and half is just netting. They can decide which half they want to be in. ;) Good luck!

That's one of those questions that cn only be answered by "It depends...." I get about seven pounds of fodder for every pound of barley seed I use. My friend only gets about five pounds of fodder for each pound of seed. So, "It depends". I have six chickens that eat barley fodder. I have...

I give them a little scratch and about a half pound of fodder. Since the fodder is just harvested, it gives them the needed water immediately. I also pull out their frozen water and put fresh water in, but they seem to want to eat before they drink. The fodder has a high water content so I worry...