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    Feeding chickens only sprouts

  2. Emmeran

    Feeding chickens only sprouts

    I hate to laugh but my sweetheart and I chose to buy our retirement home out here in New England instead of in my home state of Nebraska because of that, I still dearly miss the plains though. My current novel is set in that area, although it's set in the time period before industrialized...
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    Feeding chickens only sprouts

    You can fix that, but it takes some work. Most places humans live thrived once upon a time. **Edit: I forgot this video TED Talk, that is a great one** Then again, I've lived up on the Mohave and do realize that you need pretty good money to turn even an acre of that back into useful...
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    Feeding chickens only sprouts

    I only use sprouts as a supplement during the winter, during the spring and summer they can till my lawn and grove to their hearts content. However I do not feed my chickens inside except during the worst of the days, I don't need a bunch of rodents living in my coop. They are stuck inside...
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    Feeding chickens only sprouts

    I think the big problem here is that we don't know which precise breed of chicken we're talking about. I favor heritage breeds which don't produce as many eggs per year and are much more self-sufficient. If we're talking about one of the new sex-linked birds that are focused on maximum egg...
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    Feeding chickens only sprouts

    You are correct, chickens are omnivores and require a variety of foods to be healthy. On the same note sprouts are a cheap and easy supplement you can give them during the hardest months of winter. A flock of twelve can go through a cookie sheet full of sprouts a day. At the same time a 50lb...
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    Feeding chickens only sprouts

    Au Contraire, there are many breeds of wild chickens in the world, look no further than the Prairie Chicken out in Nebraska. People will try to differentiate and say a grouse isn't a chicken but it's just a easy to argue that all chickens are grouse. You can safely say that the "refined...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    Yup, we're starting to see the same thing up here, so much for an easy day tomorrow, dang weatherman and his little fibs.
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    The Melt has finally started! 35°F and expected to be there and higher there all week long. Finally the crazy ones out of the coop and back where they belong, I feel like a parent after christmas break again.
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    We got almost six inches up here but that coulda been just one over-achieving cloud, otherwise basically the same. We should start to see some melt off which will make my chickens happy.
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    I want to thank you all for this storm you sent us, looks like the Heart of Dixie warmed it up enough so I probably won't need the snow blower tomorrow. Y'all from down south send us such nice things, not like them folks up in Canadia who send us bitter cold and masses of snow. We'll stay in...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    Snow is a good, sleet and rain during freezing temps is bad. Snow creates a warm blanket on top of your coop, don't scrape the snow off. Remember, just like people - lots of carbs and water and your chickens (if they aren't a fancy tropical breed) will be fine. Bring the tropicals inside or...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    Back to normal here, 27°F and snowing, we are supposed to get between 2" and 12" of snow so we'll probably get none or a foot and a half. Normal February weather, next up for everyone is "March the Mad Scientist" when anything goes with the weather. Chickens don't care. Mine got cheap pasta...
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    I now officially feel sorry for everyone where it freezes regularly!!

    Wait, you miss the "June Gloom" and "Santana Winds" of SoCal? I'll bet you miss parking on the 405 every morning and afternoon just to get to work also. I imagine your just having withdrawals from the lack of police helicopters overhead every night to lull you to sleep. I do miss hanging out...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    Yup, my birds are out tearing up any dirt they can find, now if I could just find a way to harness them I could rent them out as garden tillers...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    Going cold here the next few days the sky is clearing, single digits tomorrow for the high temperature. Might be a few days that I need to keep them inside, cabbage balls and lots of fresh bedding for them to dig through. They definitely will not be happy with me.
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    20°F and sunny in Podunk Mass. Chickens don't care they don't think they even need heat, their roosts are all up in the rafters of the their shed though and that helps. The coop stays about 10° warmer than the outside air until I open it up and let them out. I keep two water buckets and...
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    Rooster question regarding Pinless Peepers

    Very astutely and nicely put, I do agree with everything said. (understanding that there will always be that very rare outlier which was mis-wired at birth, but those are exceedingly unusual.) Additionally: Kicking a chicken. When you kick a rooster you aren't actually supposed to strike the...
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    Rooster question regarding Pinless Peepers

    Keep in mind that you are the Goddess of their little world: You created this little sub-world they live in. You are the bringer of food. You are also the bringer of water. You can be the bringer of the hose if someone gets belligerent. You are also the cooker of rooster if someone is mean. As...
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    Could any of you great chicken people tell me how long I should feed chicken starter?

    We feed ours Starter Crumbles until they get big enough to eat the pellets and free range. At that point we moved them to a 50/50 mix of All-Flock pellets & Scratch twice a day, we sow it in their forage area. They also get kitchen scraps, although we don't put out meat scraps as it tends to...
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