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  1. VikingMom

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    I want my children to have a connection to where their food comes from and to have a connection with the land. The original plan was to have five chickens to lay eggs for us and to be natural pest control. Raising your own food is elemental and gives an appreciation to life. To make raising...
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    Very Disturbed by What I'm Reading So Far

    Quote: Amen!
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    Inherited Chicken Coop & Chickens Not Laying

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61144_australorps.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61144_the_leghorns.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61144_the_coop.jpg Hi Everyone! Here are quick pictures of the Older Girls and the coop.
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    Inherited Chicken Coop & Chickens Not Laying

    Quote: We are the third owners of the Australorps and second owners of the Leghorns. According to our neighbor the Australorps only laid an egg every other day. They claimed that the original owners got eggs every day. The Leghorns never laid eggs for them.
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    Inherited Chicken Coop & Chickens Not Laying

    Quote: Based on the exploding pillow description we think the Australorps are molting. My husband went up to check on the Girls this morning and saw a bunch of feathers on the ground and had to quickly count the Girls. Which may explain why they are not laying eggs. Any special additives...
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    Inherited Chicken Coop & Chickens Not Laying

    they'reHISchickens : listen for the egg song, and see if that could be part of the egg problem. Egg Song? What does that sound like or look like? From a naive perspective, the feathers don't look bad. How should the feathers look? All of them have feathers with no raw spots or are plucked. I...
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    Inherited Chicken Coop & Chickens Not Laying

    Thank you Kansaseq! As I read your post to my husband we discussed the current size of the re-purposed Playschool playhouse-turned into a coop. We were thinking that it may have been fine for the original 3 Australorps, but with the addition of the Leghorns it may be too crowded. It would...
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    Beekman Boys show

    LOL! When I first saw the adds for the show all I could think of was "Green Acres meets Bird Cage." (Josh was a New York Drag Queen whose Schtick was goldfish in his ummm-ummm this is a family website- ) So, I started to watch to find out which one would be Eva Gabor (Lisa) and who would be Eddy...
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    Inherited Chicken Coop & Chickens Not Laying

    Help! Last weekend we got a call from our neighbors who decided that their seven chickens were too expensive to keep. Of the seven chickens only one was laying an egg every other day (we were told). Since we have had so much fun with our Little Ladies, who are only 3 months old, we jumped at the...
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    How Many Pounds of Feed per Week do YOUR Freeranging Chickens Eat?

    Be careful with cat food. The ingredients in cat food that are good for kitties are considered highly toxic to chickens. There is an explanation on BYC Treats list in the Learning Center. It is still up to you, but I have chosen not to use cat food as a source of protein. I have using the...
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    Spoiling our pet rooster and his galfriend

    In the learning center under "Treats" there is an article sent in by another Back Yard Chicken person. She really stresses against feeding cat food to chickens due to the chemicals in the cat food. The chemicals that are good for kitties are considered toxic for chickens. On the same "treats"...
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    Look at what was eating my Chicken Feed

    We are bee keepers too. It may be sign that that particular hive's queen is getting old and that the worker bees are gathering as much "food" as possible to make "Royal Jelly" for the new queen. Bees are attracted to alpha, corn and wheat and depending on you feed that is what they think they...
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    Cat Grass as Subsitute for Sprouts

    Hi Everyone, Newbie chicken owner. I have become rather addicted to this new hobby. Ask me a year ago if I would have had chickens and I would have looked at you funny and said, "No." I read on the list that sprouts, oat or wheat sprouts are a good source of greens for the chickens. Would "cat...
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