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    Comment by 'seuferer' in article 'Nabiki's Black Soldier Fly Project'

    Thank you for the heads' up about vermin liking the larvae! I would not have considered that! I am now looking to place my bin inside my chicken run - I will just have to figure out how to enclose the lid snuggly enough that the voracious girls can't get into it before I want them to have their...
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    Wintering Black Soldier Flies?

    Ah, and I was searching more this morning and found this 12-page 'how-to' guide! Haven't read through it yet, but this may be exactly what I was looking for! https://ie.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/277/2016/03/bsfl_how-to_guide.pdf
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    Wintering Black Soldier Flies?

    I am wondering about this/looking into this, too. I live in North Central Iowa, we get very cold here in the winter! I have seen documented wild black soldier fly sightings as far north as Canada, so I know there must be a way to help them overwinter. I am continuing to search online, and so far...
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    Chicken-feeding plants zone 4

    Hello! I would like recommendations for plants to grow around my chicken run. It is quite large - 12'x25' and fully enclosed with hardware cloth including the top. It is on the south side of the building that houses the chickens, so it gets too much sun and too hot. I would like to 'vine' things...
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    Fodder Question?

    Hello! I have been reading some of the fodder articles and blogs and would like to try this for my chickens. I live in Iowa and there will be no greenery for my free-range hens for several months! It seems fairly straight forward - but how much fodder should I try to grow for twenty-six...
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    "Sandy" egg shell?

    Thanks! I'd already dusted off today's egg before I posted, so I don't have a picture, but I will take one tomorrow. I read this article, and it looks like the photo describing "calcium deposits", except that my girl's "sand" is not so condensed as the photo - it's more evenly distributed...
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    "Sandy" egg shell?

    One of my EE hens is laying 'sandy' eggs. The exterior of her shell has literal grains of 'sand' that can be dusted off. The 'sand' is in the same light-green color as her shell, and dusts off when I rub it, though the shell remains coarse/rough even after I've dusted off all the loose bits...
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    How long does mamma hen need to stay with her babies?

    Hello! Short version question - after a mother hen has hatched baby chicks, how long do I keep her with the babies? Do I have to wait until the babies are large enough to integrate with the rest of the flock? I have three sets of mother/babies in a small, enclosed coop and run that is...
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    Chicken Nipples question

    Can you tell me where you bought these? This sounds really ideal.
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    Making poultry nipples!

    This is an old thread and a dumb-ish question - but how do you teach the chickens to drink from the nipple? Do they just figure it out? Also, what do you do in the winter to keep it from freezing? Right now, we've used one of the big metal waterers on the big metal heater for the last 3...
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    Hens brooding

    Ah, darn. I didn't know that about the RIR. I have 2 barred rocks and one hen that is all black, I can't recall her breed. Maybe one of the girls might be coaxed to sit? Every spring, I've just bought a handful of pulleys from the farm store, but last fall a friend gave me a Rooster and I...
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    Hens brooding

    I have rhode island red hens and one rooster. I really would like one of my girls to hatch a clutch of eggs. I know Pete has "serviced" them all. It did not occur to me to separate a hen with a batch of eggs. Is there a time of year it is best to try this? We live in Iowa, planting zone 4...
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    Rooster died!

    Thank you!
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    Rooster died!

    I'm still at work, but hubby called me and said when he got home and let the chickens out, the rooster was dead. No marks on him of any kind, he was fine yesterday, normal activity, and crowing his usual call this morning. We have 10 hens and him, and a small shed with a fenced in 'yard'...
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    Chicken Housing - not exactly a 'coop'!

    I am in north-central Iowa on an acreage but am not a farmer though all of our surrounding neighbors are. Several of our neighbors and my co-workers keep small flocks of chickens. Thankfully none of us were hit by the bird flu. This year my kids got the bee in their bonnet that they wanted...
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