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    Crushed autumn leaves for bedding?

    They work very well in the coop as deep bedding. Poops dry quickly in them, even in a damp climate. They don't mat. No need to crush them. It doesn't hurt to crush them. The only downside I've noticed in four years of using them full time is they will mold if you pack them super, super tight...
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    DIY whole grain feed mix

    If you can feed them some animal protein - more than fish once a week; think 20% of their diet - it becomes much, much easier to get the rest to work well. Chickens did well fed carrots, cabbage, beetroot, or turnips as part of their diet. Potatoes can replace up to 30% of the typical maize...
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    Netting Recommendation

    Pheasant flyway netting as a search term will get you some options. I didn't end up buying any so don't have a specific company to recommend.
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Most likely. And you have a lot more livestock than 9 chickens. At 9-chickens scale, beds separated from the native soil and amended enough are a lot more doable.
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Tractor Supply Company Teffco.com Bakers Authority Foodtolive Newcountryorganics Wilco farmstore Allhay.com If I didn't mix up the results in my search history and inadvertently put in one of the sites that wasn't helpful for this. I neither recommend nor warn against any of these. They are...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    And I didn't factor shipping. That might be horrendously expensive. Or zero, if local stores can add these things to their regular orders. Or taxes.
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Sigh, I got curious. I know I can find most of the following for quite a bit less cost than I put here. But my best sources don't put the prices online - various kinds of co-ops, amish stores or similar, neighbors, and such. The quantities are mostly large for 9 chickens. All (well, most) of...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    The above plan might not be less expensive per pound but they will like it, waste less, and be healthier. I don't know if it will end their laying problems because those may or may not be related to nutrition. Also, barley, like rye, has some gluten.
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    Can yall give me ideas for stuff to bake with our eggs were getting more than what we know what to do with!

    Recipes like pancakes, lasagne, and potato salad can take an egg or two or more than the recipe says without issues. Others, like bread (including muffins, biscuits, dumplings and such) and brownies can if you don't mind it turning out somewhat different because of it - often better.
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    So. Short version. If I were so allergic to wheat and had 9 chickens, in the winter I would offer each of these in separate crocks: three or four grains, maybe some other seeds, mineral salt mixed into something, crushed eggshells, alfalfa or clover hay and/or alfalfa sprouts, maybe also...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Sunflower oil meal looks very promising. It is as high in met as soybean oil meal. Met is the hardest amino acid to supply via plants. It is low in lysine but, as stormcrow says, that can be found over the counter. It is also easier to find in plants than met is. Best to get the hulled version...
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    Need good recipe for gluten/soy free feed

    Research done after those books were published found peanut oil meal is not a good choice.
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Yep. That is what I go for also... aluminum foil, parchment paper, glass cleaner, old towels for rags, used paint brushes. Food (gotta be careful with that). But I like(d?) to go the first day because I only go to the ones where I see something else I might want. It isn't worth the gas to go...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Estate sales seem to have changed. When I started going to them semi-regularly, 10 or 15 years ago, I thought most of them were not far from garage sales in feel and pricing. Actually, garage sales have changed too but that is another topic. Then we moved to where there basically weren't any...
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    Vent sexing?

    One of the cons is that it takes a LOT of practice even with instant feedback. I saw on a documentary that some professional training programs don't provide any pictures or instruction other than having the students watch pros for a short time. Then they just do it. They do many thousands a day...
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