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  1. stewames

    Things you never said until you had chickens.......

    Duncan ( my choc lab) there's chicken on the front porch, go round her up. Bruce, there's a chicken on the front porch, she's really mad because your cat is in her green basket. I think she wants to lay an egg in private.
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    Feed Recipe - Not Sure How Much Of What...

    I hate to say this but your neighbors are hindering your chicken progress. The law is on your side in PA if a dog or any animal worries your livestock. You are allowed to shoot them.
  3. stewames

    Anyone noticing an unusually poor November egg production?

    Seriously folks, other than SIGNIFICANTLY increasing the light for them, nothing is going to work. If the sun's UV rays on the earth is limited, only more light will help. This is not a strange phenomenon. It is nature and the 19 year cycle of the planet, the sun and the moon. It is real and it...
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    Anyone noticing an unusually poor November egg production?

    We have the same problem. 10 chickens 4- 5 eggs/day. I told the girls they might become Sunday dinner and they squeezed out one more the other day! My husband looked up the SUN ASPECT online and found that it is the lowest that it can be in a 19 year cycle. The sun is rising and setting at 18 to...
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    OK to drink from muddy puddles?

    On the same note, but as for food: I was told to never give them anything with the slightest hint of mold. I was told it would kill them. Yet I compost kitchen scraps and those moldy science experiments you find hidden in the back of the fridge now and then. The girls make a point of getting...
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    Dubbing Istructions?

    What is it called when they cut the beak back so severely? It does NOT grow back.
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    Dubbing Istructions?

    I was told that "dubbing" has to do with the beak. I bought some chickens from an unscrupulous breeder who had cut the beaks off of some. The practice, at least around here in southern PA and Northern MD is called dubbing. I was told it was to stop them from pecking one another. I have one bird...
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