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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
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My parents have 8... some of the best eggs ive ever had. They feed them some chicken meal shit and mealworms as a snack. Every time I visit I throw grass clippings into the enclosure and the chickens go nuts. I told my parents to feed them more veggies but idk...I remember chickens loving rice too. What do you think? They need a mobile coop thing to let the chickens roam the yard.
I'd give them leaves and shavings and short chopped grasses, they need to scratch and peck, I "pasture" mine, they are free to get bugs and they do eat grass, they need some vegetation. They love a bale of hay, eat the seeds grains, but they can swallow long grasses and it gets twisted up in their crops, they can starve to death like that, so long grass can be a problem.
Thank you! I did not know chickens were carnivores like that.. seriously raptors with feathers. My dad lets them sit on his lap. There are hawks that have taken 2 of them so unfortunately we cannot free range them unless we kill the hawks. I'm pretty sure its illegal to do that but not 100%. I have tons of yard waste, once I move out of the suburbs I will definitely take your advice.
Hawks are considered bird of prey. It’s illegal to touch them if they are dead. (North Carolina law, don’t know about other states) Most likely illegal to kill. In some situations you can get a permit to kill animals killing livestock and eating crops. I don’t know the details. We have such over populated deer they eat the farmers crops. About twenty years ago farmers had fireworks going off at night. The deer got accustomed to it.
Funny you mention the black ones. We have 4 black and 4 white. The blacks ones are more skittish and not social at all. My dad says its because they remember their full sized friend get dissapeared by the hawk. I do wish I could just bait the hawk with something to end it..theres two of them that have nests right above their coop :/