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I was wondering what other people have been using to identify their chicks when they hatch. What do you use to tell them apart? Do you put coloured rings on their feet or put coloured dots on their heads/back? I was going to have all my emu chicks this year DNA sexed at a young age and I need to...

Does anybody know of any ways to deter mink from wanting to come near my chickens? I had a mink take 2 of my speckled sussex pullets the other morning and would like to prevent anymore of them being lost. I have an electric fence and the chicks were within the fence boundaries and inside some...

Hi, Does anyone here have any experience with breeding and growing emus up as an alternative meat and oil production? I'm in the UK and I'm considering starting an emu farm in the South West, as currently there is no commercial production of Emu meat in the UK. Does anyone have an idea of the...

Getting this emu DNA sexed in a couple of weeks, but read something else saying that you can sex an emu chick from it's head pattern. Don't know if it's an accurate way of sexing chicks but thought I'd give it a go anyway :) Would anybody be able to have a guess at what sex my chick is from...