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    Peabody Massachusetts Chicken Ordinance

    Peabody Massachusetts Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed not specified Roosters Allowed No Permit Required Yes Coop Restrictions none provided City/Organization Contact name Public Services - (978) 536-0600 Additional Information...
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    Addison Texas Chicken Ordinance

    Addison Texas Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed Under three if the coop is within 150 of a residence. the wording is confusing. Roosters Allowed No Permit Required No Coop Restrictions none provided City/Organization Contact name...
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    Illensses Problems And Issues

    one of the four chickens started releasing a dark, very liquid poop about four days ago. it had been very cold. I have only see shat of liquid sort once and it has white matter in it. i'm posting a photo of it below. It's the the shat on the upper right (dark brown on apple tree leaf) is the...
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    1st Incubation 1

    Day 8 of incubation: SOMETHING IS UP WITH THE EGG. SOMETHING PIPPED A HOLE IN THE SIDE. OH LOOK. NOW SOMETHING IS ZIPPING A CRACK AROUND THE TOP. WE KEEP SEEING LIKE A LITTLE TOOTH BREAKING THE SHELL. AND "BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, PEEEP, PEEEP." TED'S OUT AND ABOUT! THEODORE'S FIRST...
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    Incubator

    Building a DIY egg incubator. Robin's mother is visiting a sister in another state so i was able to snag a few things: 1. A lamp and an extension chord with line splitters: 2. and got a fan from a compute not in use: Items purchase are shown below (except the replacement fan...
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    Roscos Page

    2009-11-30 here are our four laying hens. Cornbread All Four: The Trouble Maker, but the one producing most eggs: First of use Eggs in Our Food (3rd and 4th Eggs collected)
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    Incubator March 2010

    Six White Silkie Eggs Set March 15th, 2010. This is an incubator we threw together very quickly. A local pet store gave us the cooler from a recent shipment of live fish. Heat Regulation - The hot water heater is the cheap one from HD mounted ~2" above a 60W bulb in a socket i scrapped out...
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    Nasty skin/feather problem

    Quote: that is a good point. i'll keep an eye out for it. the only thing is that it was just one clutch. anyhow, the birds are growing feathers normally now. still a little shiny in some places though. i'm sure it was the heat that caused them to have jacked up feathers. it was like...
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    Nasty skin/feather problem

    Quote: this. or possibly a nutrition deficiency with the breeding stock that those eggs were from. that is what i was thinking. i called the feed store and a lady there reminded me of the heat. it has been excessively hot here. one week it was even hotter than hot. usual has been 100F...
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    Nasty skin/feather problem

    i can't use a pesticide such as 7 Dust. i'd just have to 86 the ones that don't respond to DE and treat the brooder. then return it to service. these quail will serve as food in a short time. my question, i guess, is really, is this an insect issue or is it related to the hatcher...
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    Quail Water

    Quote: yeah, no kidding! Model_A_Tractor, that is a really nice shack. thanks for posting the photos. it gave me and now i have all pens watered automatically, except the brooder. there is another set of grow-out pens behind the camera but same piping. there was just one thing that...
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    Nasty skin/feather problem

    the larger birds in these photos hatched and looked all wet. the feathers looked smeared. i figured out the problem (you can see smaller chicks that hatched a few days later are normal in way of fluff feathers), but now they're not growing feathers normally. even though the problem started...
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    Quail Water

    Quote: according to the table, i need to get the bucket ~7' above the PVC pipe that feeds the nipples? i will say, in all the photos i've seen of people's set-ups, i've not seen one bucket that high. or even very high at all. All - i will not be switching to a set-up that feeds from a...
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    Quail Water

    Quote: according to the table, i need to get the bucket ~7' above the PVC pipe that feeds the nipples? i will say, in all the photos i've seen of people's set-ups, i've not seen one bucket that high. or even very high at all. All - i will not be switching to a set-up that feeds from a...
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    Quail Water

    is this correct? i can't believe it. i must hang the bucket at least 7' in the air? Feet Head psi 1 0.43 2 0.87 3 1.30 4 1.73 5 2.17 6 2.60 7 3.03 8 3.46 9 3.90 10 4.33 20 8.66
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