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    Questions on growing barley fodder for the first time

    We're experimenting with growing our own fodder to reduce the cost of chicken feed, but I am having the hardest time trying to figure out how much I should grow for our 6 young girls!! We bought 6 small bins and drilled holes in the bottom. Right now I am soaking 2 cups of whole barley in...
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    Rain and the chicken run

    Please post a pic! I'm in CA too and this rain has been no joke. My girls don't care for the rain or a wet run, thinking of doing the same with clear panels along the sides. How much did it end up costing you?
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    Does my chicken have Bumblefoot?

    It was satisfying to get it all out!! However, it made me and my husband both queasy after! Glad we only had to do it on one foot!
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    Does my chicken have Bumblefoot?

    Just wanted to give you guys an update on my poor little bumblefoot baby! I ended up cutting the infection out of the more infected foot because the non-surgical route didn't seem to work so well. These pictures are from a few days after cutting out the infection. Nice blood flow and pink flesh...
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    Does my chicken have Bumblefoot?

    That's an excellent idea!! I love doing natural home remedies when I can. How much turmeric should I give her??
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    Does my chicken have Bumblefoot?

    So I ended up going the non-surgical route for now. I soaked her feet in a warm bath with Epsom Salt and sprayed Vetericyn on both feet and wrapped them with gauze to keep them clean. I'm going to try to do this every day until I see some improvement. If no improvement within a week, I'm going...
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    Does my chicken have Bumblefoot?

    I let my girls out to free range this morning and noticed my 8 month old White Leghorn limping. I checked her feet and it looks like she might have bumblefoot. The bottom pic of her right leg looks the worse to me but that is the leg she is putting all of her weight on. She can still walk and...
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    Our pullet started laying, then stopped!

    I posted this about 3 months ago when my girls first started laying. Now they are laying pretty regularly, I get eggs from all of them almost every day!
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    Limping chicken

    Please update! My chicken is doing the same thing. Did yours heal?
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    Limping Chicken

    What ended up happening with your chicken? Mine will be a year old in Feb and one of my girls is doing the same thing yours did. Did she heal?
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    Feed store recommended I feed my girls Hen Scratch

    But I've been reading everywhere that scratch is just a treat. I've been feeding them the Farmers Best Hen Scratch with oyster shells on the side this whole time and I get good quality eggs, but now I'm worried they aren't getting the nutrition they need.
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    Wash eggs before hard boiling?

    I heard that warm or hot water draws bacteria into the eggs. Should I "wash" the eggs with cold water before I hard boil them? Or does the boiling water kill all the bacteria? I just hard boiled 6 eggs without washing or rinsing them, they were pretty "clean" eggs.
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    No eggs, 20 weeks old.

    One of our Ameraucana's just started laying at 19 weeks. They are 20 weeks now and we've only gotten 5 eggs so far out of the 5 birds that we have that are laying age. We are still feeding them grower food and just added a tray of oyster shells too. I guess the rest just aren't ready yet! They...
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    Our pullet started laying, then stopped!

    I guess they heard me talking about them. They were free ranging in the back yard earlier and I couldn't find one of them, I found her in the coop laying down, I went in the house and came back out and there were 2 eggs. Yippee! :yiipchick Now my only question is, were they both from her??? Or...
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    Our pullet started laying, then stopped!

    Thanks for the advice. This is our first time with chickens so we didn't really know what to expect. My manager at work has 11 and when I told him ours laid their first egg he was like oh you'll start getting them every day -_- nope, only 3 so far and I think it's from the same girl. But I knew...
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    Our pullet started laying, then stopped!

    We have 6 pullets, 5 (3 Ameraucana's 2 White Leghorns) of them are 19 weeks old the other is 11 weeks (RIR) One of the Ameraucana's laid her 1st egg on Sunday 6/12, she laid every day for 3 days, and hasn't laid the past 4 days. I heard once they start laying that they should lay just about...
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    How to feed both laying and non laying birds that eat together?

    We have 6 pullets: 19 Weeks Old: 1 Ameraucana - started laying on Sunday 6/12/16 (an egg a day so far :P) 2 Ameraucana's - not laying yet 2 White Leghorns - not laying yet 11 Weeks Old: 1 Rhode Island Red How should I incorporate laying food? Or should I just put out a separate tray of...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    First Egg!!! From one of our 19 week old Ameraucana's
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    Letting my chickens free range?!?

    Ok, so we have 6 pullets. 3 Ameraucana's, 2 White Leghorns (19 weeks old) and 1 Rhode Island Red (10 weeks old). We've never let them out of their coop to free range because I'm scared they will fly over the fence. We live in the city so our backyard is not huge, but we were thinking about...
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    Pullet or Cockerel? 9 week old RIR

    Yay, I sure hope she is!! We raised her alone to add her to our flock of 5 pullets 2 months older than her.
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