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  1. danbaum

    Low Egg Production

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  2. danbaum

    Low Egg Production

    These girls live for scratch grains. To reduce it would break my heart. I have three buff orpingtons, a barred rock, a white brahma, a leghorn (never misses a day), an araucana who's at the bottom of the pecking order and gives an egg sporadically, and two mixed breeds who I've seen on the...
  3. danbaum

    Low Egg Production

    I'm a back-yard grower with nine lovely hens, all about eight months old. The most eggs I've ever gotten, though, was five in a day. All my birds seem healthy. They eat Layena and kitchen scraps, and about a cup of scratch grains thrown on the ground every day. They're in a run because I live in...
  4. danbaum

    A coop-building suggestion

    My coop stands three feet above the ground, so the chickens have some covered space, underneath, to gather in bad weather. They like that. Since the floor of the coop is at about waist height, I put pans beneath the roosts to catch manure, and have long, low doors in the side of the coop that...
  5. danbaum

    Hen stopped laying

    I have a young hen that started laying beautiful blue-green eggs about two months ago, then suddenly stopped. I have nine hens, all of age, but I'm only getting four eggs a day. All of mine are in the Hen's Union (Local 9) and their contract says they should be laying about an egg a day each by...
  6. danbaum

    hens wasting feed

    Thank you all! Terrific ideas!
  7. danbaum

    hens wasting feed

    I know this sounds funny, but my nine hens scoop the feed from their feeder and spread it all over the floor of the coop. I'm going through a lot of feed as a result. I think this started when I began mixing a little scratch grains into the feed on someone's advice. The hens love scratch grains...
  8. danbaum

    Fresh poultry manure and vegetable gardening.

    In all this talk about letting chicken manure compost for a few months, I'm wondering if people have several piles going. Like, one for each season. Otherwise, if you're throwing your manure on the same pile all the time, how do you know what part of the pile is old and usable in the garden, and...
  9. danbaum

    roofed run, headless chicken

    thank you both for such quick replies. we have foxes and raccoons aplenty, but have never heard of weasels or minks. something else to worry about....
  10. danbaum

    roofed run, headless chicken

    We have a secure coop and a run with a chicken wire roof and the wire buried all around. There are no signs of digging or tears in the wire. Yet one of our young buff orpingtons was found with its head torn off. No other damage to the chicken, and no sign of the head. The chicken wire has...
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