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We're Getting Chicks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm a so excited to say that we are getting chicks! Yay! We're getting both meat and laying and I wanted to know if there was anything we should keep in mind. I have the brooders set up in a old shed that has the furnace that we use in the winter. In the summer we don't use it, so right now it is the perfect place since…
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Got my chicks today!
What do you wish you would have known when you started keeping chickens?
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Grinders for grinding own chicken feed...
I hope someone here can point me in the right direction... We have a small flock (8) of chickens that we are currently feeding an organic mix of corn, peas, wheat, etc... (don't worry, the mix covers all the nutritional needs 😊), but some of the whole kernels are too big for our hens and they do not touch them - namely the…
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New babies!
These hatched yesterday & today. Enjoy! We have been. The smooth feathered silkie hen has 5 regular silkie chicks (3 partridge & 2 black) and at least 1 blue jersey giant. The blue (camouflaged) & 2 partridge colored silkies are pictured. Silkies make excellent broodies & moms. Here is mom call duck, about the size of a…
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how long will a 50 lb. bag of feed last for a flock of 6 laying hens?
Can you help me with this math? Laying hens will need about 0.25# per day of approximately 16% protein feed, 6 hens would consume a total of 1.5 lb. per day. So (50 lb. / 1.5 lb.)/ day = 33.3. So 33 days? About a month? Does that seem right to you?
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A free Kindle Book for Beginning Chicken Raising
It's only 27 pages but I'm sure it will be of use.
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how much area do you estimate a free range flock of 6 hens would need not to overgraze the land?
We all know that you have to rotate livestock or they will eat everything that is good until it's gone, gone, gone. But I am wondering if there is a guestimate of a size yard that could support a flock of 6 hens such that the hens couldn't really damage the populations of the yummies? Is there such a size? I was…
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Marradhuna Basques
Anybody else try Marradhuna Basque chickens?
