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I was just about to ask the same question. I have 4 one year old hens in an old coop, and have 4 chicks that will be ready to move out as the new coop is finished in a couple weeks. Who should get dibs on the new coop while the outside meetup process happens over a couple weeks?

I do quart jars for my adult birds and keep a rotation going, but I know how much they eat each day. With the itty bitty babies, it changes so fast and this is only my second year getting chicks. Hard to keep up! Tyvm, I will keep using it and just watch closely

Got a new round of chicks and I have been fermenting the organic crumbles i have them on. They love the mash and seem to be doing well at 1.5 weeks old. Since they grow so fast, it's difficult to tell how much they will eat, so to keep the fermentation chain going faster as their needs change, i...

I am growing wheat grass for my rhode island red hens. Because of my gardening habits, the substrate I have most available for this is perlite, which they grow fine in. However, the way the perlite mounds up as it grows actually makes it easier to just rinse the perlite off the roots rather than...

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Thet egg post helped, ty! So flax better but far more expensive. I got a bulk bag of flax that will last the better part of a year, figuring that if it turned out not to be a good chicken idea, i could learn to use it for myself, maybe get a little healthier. I might as well use it up and...

Getting both the worm and sprouting systems (and now microgreens with the wheat grass) was a bit of a pain and took a couple of months to work out to make them convenient, but well worth it. Now they run smoothly and take very little work. I highly recommend both, you will love watching the...

I never got a notification that you replied, thank you for all the work to calculate that. Now at 6 weeks later, I am finding only slight changes in what I am feeding them. I have not changed the formula much that I listed above other than to remove the herbs except as an occasional addon, and...

I tried to do a reply but it went to the moderator and hasn't been seen since. Possibly because i tried to include links. I'm new to forum use. It's a brand of brewers yeast called Now from Amazon. The kelp is Thorvin nature's Icelandic kelp, also from Amazon.

I am new to raising chickens and have done a ton of research. I am hoping experienced keepers can look at my system plan and critique it, and i need to know when to add brewers yeast. Any and all critiques or advice is welcome. The background: I live in zone 6b and got 4 rhode island red laying...