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    strange eggs....then dead chicken....and now strange eggs again....

    they have a huge bowl of oyster shells always available. I give them their own egg shells back too, after being crushed up so they don't recognize them. I feed mostly layer pellets but supplement with "Cardinal mix" bird seed and scratch to get them where I want them to be. They free range...
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    strange eggs....then dead chicken....and now strange eggs again....

    About 4 weeks ago I started finding one egg every day or so that looked like a deflated basket ball. Usually in the nest but sometimes on the coop floor. There were also eggs that looked like an egg and a half. Think of an egg then graft another half egg on top of that. So..one day I let...
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    How to tell Buff Orpington from Isa brown?

    The breeder last July sold me 6 "Isa Brown" hens. My neighbor who also has chickens said "nice Orpingtons" Is there an easy way to tell them apart? Here are some picts:
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    Pictures 10

    I'm going to upload some pictures. Yup....that's my plan for the day:-) This is my 1987 Buick Regal (Grand National). Her name is Petunia. Me trying to get rid of some 'dry rot' on the tires. Getting ready for some winter fun with a few of the dogs: My aquarium: My awesome...
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    worms in trash can???

    Didn't look like the white maggots I usually see. These were golden brown. I guess it could be them but with temps around freezing at the moment there are not a lot of flies buzzing around No cause for concern to the birds??
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    worms in trash can???

    So I clean the coop weekly and dump the poo covered paper into a trash can outside. Can is lined with a plastic bag. For the first time since July I opened the lid and there were several hundred small 'grubs' or maybe 'worms' on the inside of the lid and on the plastic bag up by the lid...
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    how to sanitize eggs?

    her main concern is when we crack the eggs to put on the dogs' food, some of the 'white' touches the outside of the egg, thus picking up any bacteria on the outside of the shell and transferring to the dogs' food. The bloom may protect the inside of the egg, but I doubt it does much to the...
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    how to sanitize eggs?

    I'm not using cold water, I'm using hot. that causes the egg to expand and doesn't allow bacteria in, while the bleach does its job...or so I read.
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    how to sanitize eggs?

    My ladies began laying a few weeks ago. When I gather the eggs, they are clean to me, but my wife is concerned about bacteria. I read that you want to use water that is warmer than the eggs to make them expand, or else they can shrink and draw microbes into the egg. I added enough bleach to...
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    They have begun to lay, or at least one has :)

    We have been averaging one egg a day from the 12 hens. I put my game camera in the coop and it's the same hen or at least one of the browns. Looking at her coopmate's combs and waddles I would think more would be laying by now. Some still have to develop combs but at least half have them. My...
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    dimming chicken coop timer??

    You can dim the compact flo's. I have them in my strip lights in the living room. The key is buying the kind that say "dim able" I use these...
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    Ramp question please!

    when mine jump, they also flap at the same time. When flapping, they won't fit through the coop door without banging their wings to I need a ramp
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    how best to feed cut grass and alfalfa?

    I tried snipping them up with scissors but it takes a lot more effort than I wanted to put into fresh grass Maybe I'll try the hanging bunch method. Is a 'flake' one of the smaller 'chunks' that you get when you pull the twine of a bale? There are like 8 of them or something right??? I was...
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    how best to feed cut grass and alfalfa?

    I have a lot of long grass and alfalfa around the house. I cut some up and tossed it into the run. They seemed to really enjoy it but some of the blades of grass are 8 inches long. They eat those like spaghetti and I wonder if that's good? I would think it might ball up in their crop and...
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    Are oats good good or a snack?

    "Groats" are what they are indeed. I just did some reading and learned something new I feed them when I get home from work in the late afternoon. From morning until then, they free range and eat their crumbles.
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