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    Topic of the Week - Insulating the Coop

    I have a similar rodent problem from the tarp I had to throw over a leaking roof over the covered run!
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    Sex linked Olive Egger

    Oops! Correction: a Cream Legbar hen only guarantees a single barred allele to her sons, when bred with a solid roo. Her daughters will not get any barring allele, since the barring sex-linked allele is only on her Z male sex chromosome and her daughters will only get her W chromosome. And, a...
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    PUFA-Free, Grain-free layer recipe

    You gotta look at who profits! US corporate farming has insanely invested in corn for cheap animal & people feed. (Also, due to the anti-masturbation removal of animal proteins led by Harvey Kellogg of cornflake infamy, a physician and devout Seventh-Day Adventist in Battle Creek, Michigan!)...
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    Horehound and chickens

    Thanks for the anti-fly info! I'm currently looking to add this Marrubium vulgare, "Horehound" both around the coop (as you recommend) and also mixed in my moderate winter/ long hot & dry summer zone 9 NorCal chicken pasture! Unlike lemongrass, this survives happily unprotected-from-frost/freeze...
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    Comment by 'FlockVillemaire' in item 'Olive Egger'

    Kinda like how a specifically crossbred "labradoodle" is seldom considered just a mutt! LOL!
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    Comment by 'FlockVillemaire' in item 'Olive Egger'

    If specifically bred with a Chocolate Egger and a homozygous OO dominant Blue Egger, you will be 100% guaranteed an Oo olive-laying/carrier Olive Egger F1 (first generation) hybrid. You can breed F1's back to Chocolate for 50/50 olive OR chocolate, but the F2 'olive' 50% possibility can be much...
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    The day we said goodbye to free ranging! 😕

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    The day we said goodbye to free ranging! 😕

    Plant more trees!!! My two just-matured young roos are doing a bang-up job of keeping my flock safe, despite regular hawk circlings. But excellent cover counts for more than I could imagine! Of course tall mature trees are the best. Some grow faster than others. I do worry and carefully count...
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    PUFA-Free, Grain-free layer recipe

    I've read the warnings on how chickens will eat styrofoam till death! Gotta get it all out of their reach! Now my biggest problem is clearing decades of disintegrating tiny plastic bits from my dad's "organic" acre! inflammatory microplastics are helping make us all fat & sickly in so many ways...
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    PUFA-Free, Grain-free layer recipe

    Monopoly Profiteering. It's what keeps expensive health-related businesses above water. Profit rules don't change unless the rules of business change somehow. We can counteract that impulse freely here, just have to find the information that works on our own, if we can. Lots of studies are...
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    A MIRACLE TREATMENT FOR SOUR CROP ????!!!

    Yes, kefir is magical! So magical that a Russian Tsar sent his sexiest spy to seduce a leader of a clan who would not allow it to be traded. She succeeded in stealing it so we all can benefit today. (Way more powerful for health than Marco Polo's pasta theft!)
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    PUFA-Free, Grain-free layer recipe

    My growing flock are crazy about the store-bought BSFL, (still haven't got my own bin started) but whenever I try to entice them into eating any of the many common garden earthworms living here in California, they turn up their beaks and walk away! I wish I could get them to eat them. I've added...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    But on the other (Pacific) coast in Sonoma Co. CA, northernmost of 9 San Francisco Bay counties, tonight is as warm as our cool summer nights (Mediterranean Climate) at 53 degrees, then Sunday night dips down to 39! We usually get enough freezing nights for some fruit's chilling requirements...
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    need advice on how to manage rooster fighting

    Three roos (either completely separated or with excellent record keeping) is considered the minimum for sustainability in the Spiral Breeding System and 20 hens/3 roos is just a bit under recommended. Since they are BroodBros, they'll likely be more accommodating of eachother, so separate...
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    PUFA-Free, Grain-free layer recipe

    Chickens evolved in tropical forests laying a whole lot fewer eggs, so grubs, greens & fruits more easily fulfilled all their earlier needs, with little call for high energy grains. I was thinking high Omega-3 chia would be a good thing to grow in pasture, along with herbs & veggies & fruits. I...
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