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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2064242
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Between the coosa and cahaba
We just wash ours prior to using


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We don't wash ours either, just put them in a carton and leave on the counter

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2064359
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I didn't know eggs would keep that long. Our game hen eggs are sort of small, but the yolks are almost orange, a little strong tasting but in a good way..

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2064441
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We don't wash ours till right before we use them either.

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2068519
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So, my question today is: do you feed laying pellets/bits or not? What do you feed?


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2068597
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laying crumbles, seems they wasted more with pellets. Also throw out 5 way scratch feed.


I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....

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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2068600
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oh, and I wash my eggs when they get collected. grin

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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: BhamFred] #2068833
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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
laying crumbles, seems they wasted more with pellets. Also throw out 5 way scratch feed.

I can show you how to build a feeder where they can't waste feed.


Yeah c知on. Daniel White
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2068915
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I had the exact opposite feeling...I felt like they wasted more with crumbles than with pellets. The feeders are under cover and hanging about 2" above ground, so no ants can get into them. Laying pellets are a balanced nutrition feed, so I don't supplement with scratch. When I turn my raised beds over, though, any grubs I find go to the chickens, and when I weed the beds, any weeds (along with grass clippings from the yard) go to the chickens. Last year, I was cutting some watermelons that I grew on the overhead trellis, and dropped 2...I put them in the chicken run, and they ate everything, including the rind!


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: tfd1224] #2068995
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Originally Posted By: tfd1224
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laying crumbles, seems they wasted more with pellets. Also throw out 5 way scratch feed.

I can show you how to build a feeder where they can't waste feed.


I would pay attention to that


I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....

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muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: BhamFred] #2069032
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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
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laying crumbles, seems they wasted more with pellets. Also throw out 5 way scratch feed.

I can show you how to build a feeder where they can't waste feed.


I would pay attention to that


As would I!!

I always give my chickens watermelon in the summer. Have a neighbor that keeps three or four on my front porch when his come in and we can't eat um all. The chickens love them!! When I grow cabbage I throw a head of cabbage in for them too and I confess, I also give mine meal worms generally when they molt to help them refeather. They are spoiled and when they hear a bag crinkle they come running!! LOL!!

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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: BhamFred] #2069102
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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
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laying crumbles, seems they wasted more with pellets. Also throw out 5 way scratch feed.

I can show you how to build a feeder where they can't waste feed.


I would pay attention to that

Mine that I built were gravity feeders. I made them out of plywood. They were about 2 feet wide and 1.5 ft front to back and about 2.5 ft tall. You basically make a box of of plywood and on the inside you make a ramp going from the back wall of the feeder to the feed opening which was about 1.5 inches tall and ran the width of the feeder. Make you a box out of 2x4s laid on edge around the opening that comes out past the feed opening about 3 inches. Cut one strip of 2x4 wire fence and staple it over the opening in the feed trough. The chickens have to stick their heads down through the fencing to get the feed and can't sling their heads sideways to throw the feed out on the ground.


Yeah c知on. Daniel White
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2069169
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do me a pic if ya can Nick, I think I got it. thanks.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: BhamFred] #2069174
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Originally Posted By: BhamFred
do me a pic if ya can Nick, I think I got it. thanks.

I would but I can't get into photobucket at the moment.


Yeah c知on. Daniel White
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2069177
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ha, me either. I really hate photobucket sometimes.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2069179
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Yeah c知on. Daniel White
Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2069182
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You can't see it in the pics but I just cut the section of 2x4 fence and stapled it over the feed trough opening. It works like a charm. No more wasted feed.


Yeah c知on. Daniel White
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THanks for the pic; nice design.


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Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: Maggie123] #2069619
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I feed laying pellets and throw some scratch on the ground for them. When I get home I turn them out to free range

Re: Let's Create our own Backyard Chicken Forum!! [Re: G/H] #2072446
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Originally Posted By: G/H
I feed laying pellets and throw some scratch on the ground for them. When I get home I turn them out to free range


Yep, mine free range almost every day too. Lost one to a red tail hawk not long ago while they were free ranging. With this crane fly outbreak they are happy chicken while ranging now!!


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