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    Confused on different feed selections

    "Feather Fixer" if its the Nutrena, is a higher protein "layer"-type formulation. The best thing you can do is learn the nutritiojnaal needs of your birdss, then learn to read guaranted feed labels - so you can skip the product placement claims and market segmmentation and go straight to the...
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    Giving chickens corn that is soaked in 5 gallon bucket of water good??

    You don't need me, @Ridgerunner has more than adequately covered it. To summarize - Yes, corn contains some valuable nutrients, no it is not a compleete diet, and soaking in water won't magically make it so. Bird seed is not a balanced diet for chickens either. It suffers some of the same...
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    Can an NPIP breeder buy non-NPIP hatching eggs and would those chicks be NPIP certified still?

    Yes they can buy them. and their NPIP certification ends as soon as those eggs are on property, until they are next Certified [there is a tiny excpetion - 145.4(d)] Except as provided by this paragraph, participants in the Plan may not buy or receive products for any purpose from...
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    FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

    The "Hen or Rooster" game is one that will remain challenging aas you continue your chicken journey. Good luck and welcome to BYC!!
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    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    replacing old hens is why I'm hatching.
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    Running out of grower feed for 9 week old chicks

    Starter or All Flock would be better than grower, but there will be NO ZERO ZILCH NONE visible impact on your birds if you are forced by necessity to offer layer to 9 week old birds for a few days.
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    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    and in terms of advancing my project, unless the bird in front shows some pattern in the next few weeks, its going to freezer camp. I have anotheer whose pattern is black, not brown. Freezer Camp. The others are varying degrees of "possibly", depending largely on gender. I have eyes on a...
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    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    Just delivered three flats of eggs to the neighbors, willl start incubating anotheer batch tommoroww.
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    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

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    The Cheapest Place to buy Chick Feed?

    I believe you. I was just curious as to which products you were comparing. I can't think of any really unusual aspects of your geography that would result in a mill not being cheaper than a chain store. In any event, those seem to me to be very good prices. I just picked up feed at my local...
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    The Cheapest Place to buy Chick Feed?

    that is QUITE unusual. Where in the world are you located, and are the feeds you are comparing in the same market segment???? I'm vary curious as to the markket forces that would result in such a disparity.
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    Coop Ventilation

    THIS. So much this.
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    Goodbye aart

    @aart was part of my welcome to BYC. As soon as I saw her helpful, "no bones about it" responses, I knew this was where I wanted to be to learn. She leaves a legacy of better chicken keepers (and better chicken coops!!) eternally grateful.
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    Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

    Definitely not my ugliest batch of birds.
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    Thoughts on Cicadas, more Protein, less Feed...did Not work for us. Less eggs

    Sustained boosting of protein normally results in minimal increase in production - 1-2%. With the size of OP's flock, and the time measured (a couple weeks), such a small change would disappear in statistical noise. As this experiment makes clear, protein alone does not a successful egg make...
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    Which seed blend would be best for cover crop?

    Letting the birds eat them (they don't), adding to the polyculture (look, I spelled it!!), and looking pretty. There is also lemon grass, chard, turmeric, parsley and basil in that photo.
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    Anyone plant crops for chickens

    I just posted this in another thread....
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    Which seed blend would be best for cover crop?

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    Anyone plant crops for chickens

    I've had an adult beverage [__ tea]. I can't type that. But yes, thank you for the correction.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    My acres of weeds are getting tall too - taller than the chickens, the ducks, and as tall as the shortest goats. As soons as they grasses drop more seeds, I'm taking the flail mower to it, knocking it down to 6" or so. Its 15-18" right now, 20" in places. Goats ate my attempts to sprout 50#...
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