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I plant mariglolds in my vegetable garden and when I feed my birds greens from the garden, I grab a few handfuls of mariglold leaves and flowers. They eat it when its mixed with the other greens, but when I let them loose in the garden later in the season they tend to mostly ignore them. I...

When only three of my six birds started laying, I would find yolk on the nest but no shells or anything. So I had my son ( who is home during the day) check for eggs more frequently, to try to head whoever was eating off and he found a broken egg in the nest two days in a row. I have linoleum in...

I think for a perch to help them get into a nest box you should use something that they can grip but too small for them to be comfortable enough to roost on. If they like to roost on it you will end up with poop in the nest box. I use a 3.5 inch diameter tree branch for their roost, but for the...

I have 6 hens in a 4x6 coop, with a 6x10 attached run. 4 feet of the run is covered by the coop (about 3feet above the ground) the other 6 feet of the run is caged but uncovered in the summer, but I have a 2x6 removable ridge beam that I add when the leaves start falling and bungee a tarp over...

I think just about anything that will give off enough light would work, as long as its safe. Landscape lights seem well suited to the purpose. Its already weather tight, some even come with built in timers. Some can be very bright, probably too bright for supplemental coop lighting. I think its...

Ive been looking at solar too, but its hard, for me, to justify the cost. Theres no reason it wouldnt work, using LED bulbs would allow smaller system. My issue is that I use a water heater that would require abit more wattage and would cost a couple hundred bucks to set up.

I use CFL, on a timer to get 16 hrs. It uses only 13w and doesnt get hot. Plus they last longer. A coworker whos kept chickens his whole life told me to use blue or green, to keep them calm and prevent pecking and cannibalism. Not sure if theres any truth to it but I havent had any issues so...

The Agway scratch grains comes in a kind of generic bag the says " Agway organic feeds " or something like that, with silhouettes of animals on it. The specifics of the contents are on an attached tag. I keep my feed in big bins so the bags get tossed as soon as i get it home. The layer...

In NH we have Agway, a feed store that sells organic feeds and scratch grains. According to the USDA, organic means non-GMO http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/what-is-organic.html The feed is not cheap, running just under $30 for a 50lb bag, but my wife wont eat the eggs otherwise. we have six...

When I built my run,in March, it was an area of my garden that I gave up for the chickens, so it was already just dirt. I backfilled the run with peat (from a garden store) . By the end of July, even though I raked the poop up weekly, it became hard packed and started to smell. We let our...

Laconia, NH that is

Sorry to revive an old thread, but there was a story in the local paper about the city of Laconia considering allow permits to keep chickens and veggie gardens in residential neighborhoods.(It was discovered earlier in the year that an old zoning ordinance outlawed both within residential areas)...

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I am new to raising chickens and have found BYC to be one of the most helpful sources of info I have come across. I don't usually join forums or post things on the web, but, I read the forums here alot and have some questions I could not find answers for. More on that later. We have a small...