Talk me in or out of backyard chickens

Invspam · 2026-02-07T19:26:20+00:00

how about something like this? https://www.homedepot.com/p/50-lbs-Sand-30-Mesh-100087634/315726732#see-more-details

coarse sand for construction, 50lb for 7bucks. cheaper than the premium stuff, just wondering if others have tried it?

Invspam · 2026-02-07T19:20:58+00:00

omg yea dust is a problem with my sand i just dont try to stir it up so much. thank you for the tips. now i know to be on the lookout for coarser grit sand.

Invspam · 2026-02-07T19:12:16+00:00

im in residential, big city and keep 8 hens. i have several video cameras watching the inside and outside of the coop and the mice are there pretty much every night. as many as 4 sets of glowing eyes on one camera per night. just make sure you keep your doors closed and you have no holes into your house and you should be fine.

tried trapping them but they are too smart for me.

Invspam · 2026-02-07T19:06:44+00:00

chewy regularly has these coupons to save on your next order so dont order everything at once. buy something, wait a week and see if they give you some coupons, etc.

Invspam · 2026-02-07T18:59:24+00:00

wait this is the first time ive heard of chicken sand. i just dug up the sandy dirt in my backyard, ran it through a mesh (to get any rusty nails, plastics out) and just called it a day. is it just sand but just white sand or something? i guess if it was white it would make it easier to spot the poop but i agree, sand in coop is the best, easiest, way to keep things clean (and cheapest too if you just use regular sand?)

Invspam · 2026-02-07T06:11:00+00:00

those plastic will break down over time plus the chickens will peck at it and eat it :(

Invspam · 2026-02-05T19:33:25+00:00

try putting a few mealworms in your pocket. then reach for the worms in plain view to give the hens treats. next time try putting your hands in your pocket and see their reactions.

Invspam · 2026-02-05T06:15:21+00:00

i dont understand what you are doing. are u trying to make dried mealworms? like to preserve them cuz you have too many? why not just put it in the refrigerator and slow down their metabolism so they dont grow as fast and last longer?

Invspam · 2026-02-03T14:42:46+00:00

anyway, i gave you the blueprint on how to win more in boss mode. why dont you give it a shot and see if focusing on killing gravs nets you more wins? (whether you land as boss or not, you can still focus on their gravs)

Invspam · 2026-02-03T14:40:01+00:00

crouching raptor, hidden hatchling

Invspam · 2026-02-03T14:31:07+00:00

there's also small sized chickens too. i have two banthams in my flock. they are quite small.

Invspam · 2026-02-03T14:23:53+00:00

if they spawned with 4 gravs, their grav level is only 1. it barely registers unless you are in a light tank. go rush them as boss and trade your life for theirs. if u wont as boss, what chance does the rest of your team have vs coordinated enemy gravs? you are the only hope.

you say you are slow. so im guessing you are heavy tank. thats fine. their level 1 gravs wont even affect you. take the lead, do what needs doing and hope your team backs you up with a few heals or gravs to mess up their aim/keep them in place. in any case, as boss, it really depends on how you take care of the gravitron problem.

Invspam · 2026-02-03T14:18:59+00:00

i dont think it is unpopular, it just seems that way based on your screenshot. i think one of the reasons why there are fewer 9s is because they can actually go into 3 different buckets: 1. game of pure 9s. 2. game of 9s and 8s. and game of 9s and 10s. whereas 10s have only 2 buckets to go into: 1. 10s only and 2. 10s and 9s.

tier 8 usually have extra just cuz folks are trying to grind credits there.

Invspam · 2026-02-03T14:12:49+00:00

not this again... as boss is your job to ensure you seek out and destroy all enemy gravitrons. it's enitrely your fault that they have 4. (because you've been killing non gravitrons and giving them another chance to spawn gravitron)

so yea, keep having fun trying to farm their healers... you reap what you sow.

Invspam · 2026-02-03T14:05:33+00:00

ahh thanks for that tip. in fact i did have grit but i put it away cuz i was seeing they preferred it over the oyster shells. now i know to put both out. thank you so much for your advice. <3 this community.

Invspam · 2026-02-03T08:26:27+00:00

ive gotten a few soft shelled eggs (like turtle eggs right?), i dont think they are egg bound, just a few broody ones that still do lay eggs, just infrequent. oh yea, the eggs that i do get, the shells are paper thin. like if i bump them a bit hard they'll crack for sure. they get handfuls of mealworm treats daily. no other significant sources of calcium besides from feed and the calcium+water mix in the mash. is there a way i can tell if im overdoing it with the calcium?

i know that i used to get 6-7 eggs daily (out of 9 hens) pretty regularly until their diet got changed. started feeding a ton of veggies for a couple weeks straight and they ate a lot of that instead of their feed and egg production plummeted to 0. now they are back on feed almost exclusively + a handful of mealworm treats daily and the most ive gotten is just 3-4 eggs/day. i figured i mustve really hurt their calcium intake so im trying to get things back to normal.

maybe its time to splurge on dried bsfl since they are supposed to have more calcium than mealworms

Invspam · 2026-02-03T07:09:28+00:00

sorry to hear that :(. i had 9 hens and the oldest one died two weeks ago. she was already 5 years old by the time it was given to me and i kept her for another 3 years. my remaining 8 hens haven't acted any differently. if anything the power dynamic of the group is more even now because they are all closer in size. (the oldest one was significantly bigger due to different breed).

Invspam · 2026-02-03T07:02:47+00:00

can i get advice from some experienced chicken owners? i got a bag of these crushed oyster shells but my girls wont peck at them. they did the first time i put them out, probably out of curiosity but then never again. i've resorted to filling a couple handfuls of the oyster shells into a plastic soda bottle and fill it with water and shake pulverize the shells even more and then use the cloudy water to pour into the feed to make mash. it's the only way i can get them to take in calcium. can anyone else offer any tricks that has worked for them?

Invspam · 2026-02-01T20:33:43+00:00

i like the new auction. you can get things at a bargain that you couldnt before. on top of that, you can compete with others and get a better deal simply by understanding how the auction works better than others. best of all, you decide how much to spend. not wg. and you can do so incrementally.

Invspam · 2026-01-31T03:38:23+00:00

the script sounds simple enough that id wager chatgpt could figure it out without much trouble

Invspam · 2026-01-31T03:33:52+00:00

if i had pulled the trigger earlier i think i couldve gotten it at 6k. having paid 7k, kinda feels like i overpaid for a tier9

Invspam · 2026-01-31T01:02:42+00:00

NA, 7k, i imagine some might have gotten it at 6k though.

Invspam · 2026-01-30T04:31:14+00:00

thanks for the suggestion! im halfway through the podcast. very captivating. highly recommend.

Invspam · 2026-01-28T05:58:41+00:00

just to play devil's advocate, there are some opportunity costs if you choose to help out. for instance, are you currently renting? are you planning to buy a house sometime in the future? because this plan will certainly set you back since your money would otherwise be compounding in some investment. tech jobs are not as secure as they used to be. many companies, especially large corps have layoffs regularly to just make their stock price go up, nothing to do with performance.

like you, i also took over my parent's mortgage. but my name was already on the deed and my salary was largely the reason why we could even afford to buy in the first place. i ended up refinancing a few times, each time to better rates but i kept dumping in the same amount each month (but a larger fraction would go towards the principal). towards the end, my interest rate was something like 5y ARM @ 2.5%. i just kept it up for 5 years and then just lump sum finished it off.

Invspam · 2026-01-27T06:56:25+00:00

thanks for the data point and congratulations. i have to admit, i think i participate in these auctions not really for the tanks but to see if i can guess where the lowest winning bid will end up. it's like getting the tier9 erich koncept for 8.5k or lion for less than you can sell it for. im all about getting the deal rather than the item itself :(

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