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Hi ALL, I posted as Native Yard because I have been involved in the nativizing process in Southwestern Ohio for some time and 'the girls' seems to benefit from the abundance of insects and munchable grasses. I have 14 hens, 9 golden comets and 5 brown leg horns. The girls are entering their third year and produce between 12 and 8 eggs daily which are shared with neighbors and friends. We have had a few health issues. One prolapsed vent that sort of healed itself and one death from cold weather (the leghorns seem more sensitive to cold). They have plenty of room in their pen/coop and get out every day (depending on weather). I do need to find a better feed since I have recently learned (please advise) that we should avoid Purina since that seems to be contributing to their dirty butts. I have incrementally learned that raising chickens is more complicated than I first thought so looking forward to the group's expertise.
 
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Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow

I feed Kalmbach's Flockmaker (20% protein) to every chick and chicken here, and recently had one prolapsed vent on a chick, and have another older one with relentless pasty butt. It's not the feed. Try giving them some probiotics. There's powders available for in their water, or sugar-free yogurt, especially Greek is good too.
 
So you are working on planting native flora in your yard? I wish I was a better landscape tender--I kind of just let whatever grow, grow. Having a property with lots of native species sounds neat, though.

I have fed my flock Purina and I haven't correlated it with dirty butts. If you do change your feed, I would just recommend doing it slowly, if possible, and mixing the new feed with the old feed incrementally, slowly adding more of the new feed until they are adapted to it.

Thanks for joining! Welcome to BackYard Chickens!
 

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