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Plants Toxic to Chickens | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. Plants Toxic to Chickens. I originally made this a post, but I think it’s an important enough topic to have it’s own page as well. Additionally, spring is a good time to review what sort of plants you have growing in and around your yard, to make sure you’re not exposing your chickeny charges to something dangerous. Below, I’ve pasted a list. Of toxic plants from chickenkeepingsecrets.com. EGGPLANT, JERUSALEM CHERRY). This is in ...
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Fight for Food Sovereignty in Ferrysburg MI | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. Fight for Food Sovereignty in Ferrysburg MI. August 5, 2015. August 5, 2015. What entails community change from a ‘bedroom community’ to a ‘barnyard community’. If you’re Roger Jonas. Chairperson of the Ferrysburg Planning Commission, the answer is as simple as 2 goats, 5 chickens, or 4 rabbits. The issue emerged last year when Adam and Amanda Montambo asked the city to allow them to continue to keep pet goats. 8220; Since this h...
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Things Chickens Like | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. Chickens are simple creatures, and it’s pretty easy to figure out what motivates them, makes them happy, or comes second nature to them. Here’s my ongoing compilation:. Chasing a laser pointer dot. Perching on my back or shoulder. Assisted preening (cleaning dirt/debris of eachothers backs). Pecking at the frayed ends of my jeans. Snatching tissue paper out of my hands. Ripping worms in half (or in thirds). Glad to have awesome n...
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Little Girl has died. | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. Little Girl has died. June 22, 2015. June 22, 2015. Little Girl died yesterday. The chickens woke us up with their squawking at around 5am, just as it was starting to get light out. Ben and I both thought they were just yelling to be ‘let out’ of the run into the yard to begin their day. Turns out, they were sounding the alarm that Little Girl was dead, laying on the ground underneath the coop. She’s the only hen who has go...
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Chicken Myths | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. There are a lot of misconceptions about chickens- they’re noisy, smelly, attract rats, etc. This addresses them. MYTH: Chickens attract rats! February 24, 2015. Chickens do not attract rats. Let me say it again: chickens DO NOT attract rats. Chickens will kill and eat mice, voles, and rats. Do a search for ‘chicken eats mouse’ or ‘chicken kills rat’, or watch this video. Uncovered trash = rats. Pet food outside = rats. In the air...
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July | 2015 | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. A Comprehensive Guide to Cleaning Your Chicken Coop. July 28, 2015. Cleanliness is probably the most important and least sexy part of keeping backyard chickens. Things we considered in design:. 2) We had to be able to easily clean the run and under the elevated coop. Again, this meant we needed to have something tall enough that I could rake under it, and the run had to be a reasonable height for us to walk around in. It gives me...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Cleaning Your Chicken Coop | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. A Comprehensive Guide to Cleaning Your Chicken Coop. July 28, 2015. Cleanliness is probably the most important and least sexy part of keeping backyard chickens. Things we considered in design:. 2) We had to be able to easily clean the run and under the elevated coop. Again, this meant we needed to have something tall enough that I could rake under it, and the run had to be a reasonable height for us to walk around in. It gives me...
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chicken | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. First time chicken coop builders, start here! April 24, 2013. September 15, 2014. There’s a lot to consider in building your first chicken coop, and this infographic walks you through some major points. At the very end, I’ll discuss some of my major points for the best possible coop design. These Chicken Coop Plan. Must Haves Brought To. Things I did right on my coop:. 3) Covered run: I used polycarbonate sheeting to cover the ru...
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Chicken Tips & Info | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. Chicken Tips and Info. Info on keeping chickens healthy and happy. A Comprehensive Guide to Cleaning Your Chicken Coop. July 28, 2015. Cleanliness is probably the most important and least sexy part of keeping backyard chickens. Things we considered in design:. Finished easy-clean coop design: using large windows in the front meant it would be easy to pull everything out to clean, and the run is big enough to stand up straight in.
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Weird Stuff | Ferndale Chickens
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Goal: a Hen in Every Yard. Chicken Tips and Info. Plants Toxic to Chickens. The Curious Case of Little Girl. September 15, 2014. June 22, 2015. Little Girl is my problem hen, and has been for quite some time. She’s a pathetic layer, she’s absolutely vicious to the other chickens when they try to roost near her, and she’s the annual winter feather picker. She’s also the one who laid the infamous creepy ‘egg’, which was not an egg, rather, my chicken laid a yolk in a bloody membrane. This year, however, we...
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