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With the nationals here this year, clerking is the one position we always have people wanting to do... we are always short other volunteers, but never clerks.

This is true for ALL livestock... hard to help those who think they don't need help. Good piece of advice.

There are many ways to do this. .. I find it easier to label the pens. Toe punch according to pen number and simply document who was in each pen each breeding season. Then rotate pens. Bob has a great explanation of this with a chart somewhere. Ideally, to maintain closed flock genetics you...

New breeding pens are almost complete...

I think this is a very accurate statement. I use d'Ucclebators for my mixed breed production layers... hardy little buggers... ya can't kill em if they survive the first week. After that they are very hardy. The purebreds get hatched in a bator and raised in a brooder. I had excellent hatching...

Thanks for all the pics and feedback about the breeding pens. New pens will be built this weekend and if anyone is curious I will take pics as we go. I need 4 new ones for pairs breeding, so I believe the overall size will be 6x12 divided into 4 pens.,. that will make each pen 3x6. It will be 5'...

I'm building new breeding pens and would like some opinions... What is the minimum breeding pen size per pair/trio? (lg breed fowl) I have seen Chris's breeding pens (beautiful btw), and each pen is 6x4 I believe. Will 4x4 work? 6x3? I don't want to crowd them, but would rather not go bigger...

This is where raising Black Soldier Flies can be so wonderful... free, easy to raise and harvest, very high in calcium and protein, and they freeze well for feeding over the winter - I have an entire freezer of them right now in preparation for cooping my birds for 90-120 days over the winter.

No offense, but this is totally untrue statement. The turkey vulture problem here is tremendous. And they hunt both day and night! In addition to doing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to the rubber on boat trailers and cars (bumpers, wipers, etc), they take down live animals...

Absolutely NOT... quite a reality... you simply need quality lgd's. We keep several Italian maremma specifically for protection for both poultry and sheep and they will not let hawks or turkey vultures anywhere near. Couldn't imagine life without them. Of course these are just learning the...

I have stock tank deicers I drop in each of my water buckets (I use chicken nipples). Then those deicers are plugged into thermocubes for the winter. LOVE my thermocubes... they are thermostatically controlled to only kick on when it's below a certain temp. If I have a heat lamp (which I rarely...

And here... type, color, correctness, brick shape, etc... that all gets you nothing if you don't lay an adequate number of eggs. I grind, mix and ferment my own soy free, non-gmo feed (in addition to BSF), so I charge a premium for my eggs. The demand is there since so few folks around here...

I have a layer flock... extra females go in with them unless I have something someone is specifically looking for. I normally keep 1 or 2 roos out of my best production layers and use that roo on my production birds to maintain a production layer flock. I not only sell a lot of eggs (which pays...

Banding chicks... I use different colored strips of vet wrap. It doesn't get tight accidentally and is easy to change. Adult bands. I use spirals for my production birds and bandettes with numbers for my heritage and rare breeds. For production birds I want to know their age at a glance so the...