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We've just started buying our chickens scratch now that the weather has gotten cold. I'm wondering how much they really should be getting. I know it's a treat. I bought a 50# bag on 11/8 and our friends needed a new one already this week (we don't have chickens at our house--friends of ours have...

Our chickens free range, and we haven't been giving them scratch since their pre-egg-laying days. It sounds like it's a good idea to give them scratch over the winter for added warmth overnight and to replace the extra calories they burn keeping warm. How should we give it to them? Just mixed...

We have some backyard chickens at a friend's house--we share all the costs, we did the upfront work and the research, they do the day-to-day maintenance. We're prepping for winter, and my friend told me: We are not using pine shavings on the bottom of the coop. It was just more mess to clean...

We've gone in with some friends to raise chickens. They have an existing coop on their property that was used by previous owners, so we are splitting costs and we did all the front-end research and work, and they're doing the day to day maintenance. My friend just emailed me with a bunch of...