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    About Making My Own Chicken Feed

    Molasses is used in the pelletizing process for various reasons including as a binder. I don't know how much other than one needs to be more careful not to use too much for chickens compared to hoofed livestock because of their different digestive system. Yes, you need other ingredients. There...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    You also don't have to transition the whole yard in one go. He's been widening the borders by significant amounts every year, adding islands of bushes or flowers, and still mowing the rest but less often.
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    My daughter-in-law's father is doing that. He is doing a meadow version of it. He's doing it partly because he didn't want to mow and partly because he is into providing bird and pollinator habitat. I think is lovely, even though it was pretty early in the year for much to be blooming when I saw...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    Two houses/states ago, we were told if we did not water the lawn we would lose the foundation of our house because the ground would shift that much. Having seen the massive cracks the dried clay left at the parks in town, I believe it. I don't think it was just that the soil was clay. i think it...
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    Anyone else worried about microplastics in their chickens?

    Low hanging fruit for decreasing the amount of microplastics eaten. I'm sorry it is a shopping site but not sorry enough to look for a better source when this one gives a good discussion of the info. I switched to wood years ago because of the antibiotic properties of wood. Better for knives...
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    Organic Homemade Feed - No corn or soy - Balance omega 6 to 3

    I called them over like I did for any other offering. Approximating tidbitting, maybe. I started calling them over to their chick feed crumbles when they were one day old. Then other things, starting with tomatoes, spinach, and clover when they were a few weeks old. They love any scraps of our...
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    Comment by 'saysfaa' in article 'Hedges for forage and cover'

    There are still some osage orange hedges in the great plains states. And very detailed info on how to start them and maintain them is online - or, ten years ago, it was still findable with a lot of looking. Look for bodark hedges, bois d'arc, hedge apple. I didn't get past the planning stage...
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    I could use some breed suggestions or a reality check.

    Reality check on this. They are essentially opposites. Like wanting to have a large bird that is small. Or a fluffy bird that is sleek. Flighty birds are the ones that are reactive enough to have a much, much, much better chance of surviving while free ranging. Part of being reactive is being...
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    Switching their feed

    It is too early for layer feed. The extra calcium is harmful unless they are laying eggs or are close to laying. They will do better on starter feed for at least several more weks.
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    Raising roof?

    Oh on further thought... I didn't think all the way through it. A 5x12 (plus slope) roof is pretty heavy. You would need either equipment or post jacks and bracing or... that is getting beyond my scope. Or to dismantle the roof.
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    Raising roof?

    Their website shows all the 5x12 coops have shed roofs. And raised floors. Is that what you have? Is the 4' you talk about from the raised floor? And is it to the top of the lower wall or to the upper wall? You might have options other than raising the roof straight up. Aside from those...
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    Won't the bees that are left raise a queen and keep going?
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    Time for adult grit at 11 weeks?

    I agree they need a larger size than chick grit. You might offer the adult size and see if they take it. If they don't, you aren't out anything because they will need it later. Or just get both grower and adult sizes because it isn't expensive, especially for how much good it does them.
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    I like Firefly as a name for a car. We just sold Robin. Ds had been driving her but he bought Ivy. Dh and I don't need three vehicles. It took me a few weeks to decide whether to keep Robin or Indy (short for GoIndigo; not Indy 500). Dh was driving Betsy when we met. I was driving Pony (who had...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Last week Meijers had watermelon with seeds on sale. Usually all the Meijers stores carry about the same things so you might look there.
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    Dust Bathing

    You might try damp dirt if you haven't yet. And offer some grit if you haven't. Even if they never get food besides their crumble or pellets so don't really need it for digestion, it might be good to let them fill the instinctive need to have some.
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    My cow and calf

    So Toffee, Taffy, and Tootsie are sisters? And you kept them all? When all three start calving you may end up with quite a few heifers in the next few years. You might consider another letter for the next generation partly because there there just aren't very many candies that start with T. If...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    It works well to put watermelon in the dehydrator. Faster than apples, cherries, grapes, blueberries, bananas, zucchini, peppers or tomatoes. I was surprised because I thought the high water content would be a problem. Evidently the lack of a skin makes a huge difference (duh, in hindsight) as...
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    Deep litter method

    If you don't mind them sleeping there other than the dampness, you could add a roost there. A 2x4 or tree branch on cement blocks on each end would work.
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    Favorite Books/Authors????

    Don Coldsmith (Spanish Bit) Dorothy Gilman (Mrs Pollifax) John Flanagan (Ranger's Apprentice) Jim Kjelgaard (start with Snow Dog or Stormy) In the Black Stallion series, start with the first in the series ("The Black Stallion"). After that, it doesn't matter very much. Later books will portray...
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