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Rabbit composting
Well, you can use the droppings and ,if you have them in a solid hutch, the wood shavings or straw from bedding as injection to your regular compost. The rabit will transform all vegetable scrap in good and useful manure. I use the clean out of our two pet rabbits as mulch in the garden. Especially in fall I apply just a…
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Eggs not hatching -- what do I do?
Hi Merin Other hens slipping in new eggs...sly girls! This makes a mess. Different eggs will be at different stages and the hen might just keep sitting and sitting and waiting for everything to hatch. If there are dead eggs in the batch, they can explode and contaminate the good ones. This is a horrible thing to clean up…
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Odd Chicken Behavior
Hi Scott! I tend to think of the interaction between roosters and hens in terms of "dominance" and "submission." If they are squatting around you, I consider that a sign of submission. If they are adolescents, it could also mean they are about to start laying, although there are other signs to look for that indicate that,…
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Breeding mealworms -- any tricks for actually getting them out of the box?
Hey Merin, We use a colander with wide holes for the wheat bran to move through, we got ours at the dollar store. You still have to pick out the beetles, but the meal worms that are big enough to be fed to the chickens wont slip through the holes. Hope this helps!
