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    Chicken Banana Skin Feed

    Citation? Never seen such a label on the lemons we buy by the bag full. You can't simply assert such stuff without backing it up. Anecdotally, of course, my hens love the stuff and are healthy egg laying machines. And the folks who eat our eggs will brook no substitutes. "according to lab...
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    Chicken Banana Skin Feed

    As one who has tried 'the patch' to quit smoking, I can assure you that 'the skin' is no barrier to pesticides.
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    Chicken Banana Skin Feed

    Good point. I tried the composting and it drew rats. When I find free-range worms - I tell the chickens. Some of my birds like 'em, some not so much.
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    Chicken Banana Skin Feed

    'The Math' was an aside. At our Food Lion, they discount the 'ripe' fruit by half or more - so, if the skins have less moisture (and, consequently less volume and weight) the loss of value is likely compensated by the reduction in cost. Again, I only add peel as a supplement/treat...
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    Chicken Banana Skin Feed

    Gosh, folks, I never said I was substituting banana peel for cracked corn! I 'did that Math' as an aside. Since I once threw all the peels away (at one time, into a composting bin thing I built) calculating my cost of the peels allowed me tout a second benefit of diverting peels to beaks...
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    Adding calcium when they won’t touch oyster shells

    Tractor Supply and Walmart as well as Amazon offer it or substitutes just 'googol' "Flaked Oyster Shell Calcium Supplement for Chickens"
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    Information Overload + Analysis Paralysis

    OMG, you'll drive those hens nuts! You're so well organized, they'll never be able to keep up! I bought some guineas from a couple the next town over that had an organized layout - they made it look like a Western town movie set! I used to have access to a floor planning application and used...
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    i somehow acquired 2 runaways and i have questions. please help

    I always thought the 'run' should be a place where grass and weeds and stuff grew - frequented by various an sundry 'bugs.' Been keeping chickens for about seventeen years now. Not an expert or a 'fancier,' just golden comets (sex-inked layers) and one or two odd ones born here or picked up...
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    Chicken Banana Skin Feed

    Well, why would chickens want eat cracked corn? Not exactly a naturally occurring item (looking back to when chickens were first - well, who knows.) I throw food scraps down and if they gather round and eat them up, I provide more as it comes available. If they leave it on the ground, it...
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    shook poultry(NC)

    Roger Shook in Claremont, NC was my GO TO pullet supplier for years. Apparently, he is no longer in business. Tried looking for his web site and fb page today 3/14/25 and only found comments indication he closed in (or about) 10/24 I'll miss them!
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    Griddle used to keep 5 gallon bucket from freezing

    For a while there, every Black Friday Walmart (and others) offered an electric griddle for ten bucks or less. I bought more than one because they did get 'used up' after burning this meal or that to a crisp or trying too hard to restore them to pristine clean. So, no problem, I've got 'spares'...
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    My house is 1 acre. Can my neighbr hear my rooster?

    Would it not make more sense to go over and ask that neighbor? I you are within CITY LIMITS, you need to ask the CITY about the rules. If outside City Limits, check with your county or parish. We were surprised to be fined 25/hen when the neighbor a quarter mile from us complained that our...
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    Designing and 3D printing feeders & accessories

    Isolation crates, I'll give you that one. Pet carriers is what they look like to me. I assume lots of places might use them to isolate an animal for whatever reason. And a Vet would be likely to have one or two of them as do the ASPCA Spay and Neuter Programs. "Hospital" just took me by surprise.
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    Review by 'NameIwish' in article 'Alternate method to prevent water freezing.'

    Great idea using manure to create heat in the winter. Terrible idea having the water container so low to the ground where (any of the chickens I've ever owned) scratch the ground and kick anything and everything here, there and onto and into everything in the coop. If you've go enough shit to...
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    Designing and 3D printing feeders & accessories

    You take chickens to the hospital? You have multiple pet carriers for the purpose. Chickens, really. Whatever for?
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