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if that is how they were raised then yes, other wise it needs to be bred back into them, meaning find a broody chicken, and allow her to sit on the eggs and hatch and raise them, after a couple generations they should get the hang of it! as for laying, my pheasants used to start laying...

ask around at local feed store or ask local farmers... i just stopped in at a amish farm and asked if they had any, and he had a couple he sold me, then i bought a buck off kijiji...

so my newzealand bunny gave birth to her second litter yesterday, the 1st litter did not make it past day 3, have read pretty common to lose first litter... so monday i went to put the nest box in her cage (currently have her inside in a pet rabbit cage, as its -30 up here right now) and she...

have a black lab, love her to death... she's a weirdo... she will give hugs, paws up in the air and all... started off as fighting lol i would say you wanna fight and she would sit back and put paws in the air and we would box, then i switch it to want a hug, and she would do the same thing...

haha your birch temptation reminds me of me last year lol they logged down the road from my house, and left a big pile of birch sitting there all summer... finally in september, i couldnt take it anymore and i called the company that logged it, and asked if i could buy it... $800 later i had...

ive got a husqavarna 455 rancher, its 56 cc, bin a amazing saw... cut probably 3 or 400 face cord of wood with it in the last 4 years, plus brushed my whole 5 acre property, and all i have had to do to it, is i changed the air, fuel filter, and spark plug, as well as adjust the idle. thats is...

yes i understand they are the best, i have raised them in the past myself... id rather have a decent breed though, that i can hatch myself, whenever i want, and could even sell some of the off spring, to pay for feed costs

i currently have a light brahma rooster, that i bred with some red sex link hens, and am raising those chicks now. i figure they should make good meat birds and good egg layers... but i was wondering what 2 breeds would make a great meat bird, that i could breed. so thinking a cornish would...

i think you will be fine... maybe mark it, and let us know if it does or does not hatch... ive had the power go out for about 12 hrs and they did fine, but i think the temp in the incubator only made it down to around 83...

hi all, im going tomorrow morning to pick up my 1st goat, just a freebie off my local kijiji... hes a 6 month old saaneen/alpine cross. most of what i have read, says not to start with a billy but, he's free so figure he's a good start lol am i biting off more than i can chew? my main goal...

hen, you would see some colour in it already if it was a roo... i think mine start showing colour around 8 weeks... pheasant hens will be agreesive to new birds as well...

i thought thats what the fan was designed for was to more evenly distribute the temp... guess not... couple years ago, i had bought a second hovebator, got the fan kit and auto egg turner, thinking all that should drastically improve my hatch rates, was getting around 60 % with my pheasants...

probably muscovies

ya i have had troubles with thermometers last couple years, finally got my hovabator one fine tuned that i have to have it set at 104 F to get them to hatch on the day they are suposed to... best thing is trial and error, if theyy are hatching on time with your digital than use it, and remember...

wow i only turn my eggs twice a day 12 hours apart, my last hatch was 15 out of 19 eggs hatched.