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post #2291 of 11360
2/25/12 at 9:51pm

Well I just gotta say with excitement, I'll be adding Shamos to my list of Easter hatchalong eggs I'll be setting. wee.gif

Araucanas, Polish, Shamos

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Araucanas, Polish, Shamos

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post #2292 of 11360
2/25/12 at 9:53pm

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Outside of box.
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Inside lined with foil.

 

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Just a suggestion.. go to Lowes or Home Depot and get an LED light bulb, brightest one they have with a regular size screw in base to fit your fixture..  The LED gives off practically no heat so you don't have to worry about cooking your eggs when you candle them.  A 200 watt incandescent bulb is going to get really hot in that little box...    I made a similar one last year with an LED and it works great..even on dark maran eggs..

 

 

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Plan now to attend the 2nd Annual Rocky Mountain Chickenstock May 4th!!  Order your event shirts now!!  www.rockymountainchickenstock.com

 

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post #2293 of 11360
2/25/12 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by LareePQG View Post

Turkeys are easier to process, but harder to kill. One almost took shane out once, hence his rule that he have two helpers. A big tom clawed him across the throat, and I think it scared him a little.


You don't have a cone for them?

 

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
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Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
Join the Easter Hatch-A-Long http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/625456/mahonris-3rd-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

Join us for fun and prizes........ MAP is HERE

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post #2294 of 11360
2/25/12 at 10:04pm
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Question for all you turkey owners out there.  I have been waiting and waiting for my hen to start laying (I kept a pair from last year's Easter hatch so they are not quite a year old)  The hen has been ignoring all of the tom's advances until yesterday when she finally let him breed her.  Does this mean that I should be getting eggs out of her soon?  I keep hoping that I will have some for this hatch. 



OK, HERE IS MY TIP.   someone said that you need heat to have the turkeys lay...........   not true!!!!!!!!!   you NEED LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!   you need to give the turkeys 14-16 hours of light a day and you will have eggs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    you need to do this NOW becues the turkey eggs in to go in the bater on march 10th.

 

 I am a Java Head, correction THE JAVA HEAD!!!   There's a Right Way, There's a Wrong Way and Then THERE'S MY WAY!!!!! 

 

 

 



 

 

 

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 I am a Java Head, correction THE JAVA HEAD!!!   There's a Right Way, There's a Wrong Way and Then THERE'S MY WAY!!!!! 

 

 

 



 

 

 

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post #2295 of 11360
2/25/12 at 10:09pm
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Originally Posted by ChestnutRidge View Post

One more that might be of interest...

Egg pore Chen 1999.jpg



Thanks for great photos, ChesnutRidge.  Incredible.  We talk about them all the time, but it's the first pore I've ever seen.  Now ... how many pores on a large egg?

-Enjoying eggs of heterotic hens because I lack the ability & patience to succeed in a purebred world. (credit msucares.com/poultry/commercial/history.html)

-As Aunt Augusta says:  I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.  Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.  Fortunately...

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-Enjoying eggs of heterotic hens because I lack the ability & patience to succeed in a purebred world. (credit msucares.com/poultry/commercial/history.html)

-As Aunt Augusta says:  I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.  Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.  Fortunately...

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post #2296 of 11360
2/25/12 at 10:28pm
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Would scare me too!!   AN out of control turkey is frightful, esp if sharp instrument is also of concern.  We have a processor that will do the deed for $10 a turkey. 

 

How do you defeather the beasts?

 

A Whiz-Bang plucker of course
 

 

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
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Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
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post #2297 of 11360
2/25/12 at 11:11pm
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  • Mahonri
  • Platinum Poultry
  • Urban Desert Chicken Enthusiast

Don't "google'  Whiz-bang plucker!

Keeper of 27 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Mama Olive Egger, 1 Olive Egger broody, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucanas, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and exactly 63 chicks of various breeds. and 25 eggs in the bator. YIKES!

 

 

"Look for Miracles"

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Keeper of 27 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Mama Olive Egger, 1 Olive Egger broody, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucanas, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and exactly 63 chicks of various breeds. and 25 eggs in the bator. YIKES!

 

 

"Look for Miracles"

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post #2298 of 11360
2/25/12 at 11:19pm
Don't forget to submit your guess for how many eggs will be set on march 17th! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5FSUpmRmdCWXJZV1BlampFOUxCSkE6MQ#gid=0

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/741090/the-4th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

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http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/741090/the-4th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

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post #2299 of 11360
2/25/12 at 11:37pm
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Originally Posted by Mahonri View Post

Don't "google'  Whiz-bang plucker!


Here's a pictures of the one my friends use.

 

Plucker 1.jpg

 

Basically it's a poly barrel cut off, rubber fingers are added, said barrel is bolted to a washing machine motor in a wooden frame (for stability).

 

Set the contraption on "SPIN" and viola, plucks a scalded bird in about 10 seconds.

 

Plucker 2.jpg

 

Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
Join the Easter Hatch-A-Long http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/625456/mahonris-3rd-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

Join us for fun and prizes........ MAP is HERE

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Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says~~"Oh Crap, She's up!"
Join the Easter Hatch-A-Long http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/625456/mahonris-3rd-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

Join us for fun and prizes........ MAP is HERE

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post #2300 of 11360
2/25/12 at 11:41pm
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  • Mahonri
  • Platinum Poultry
  • Urban Desert Chicken Enthusiast

Nice plucker there!

Keeper of 27 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Mama Olive Egger, 1 Olive Egger broody, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucanas, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and exactly 63 chicks of various breeds. and 25 eggs in the bator. YIKES!

 

 

"Look for Miracles"

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Keeper of 27 hens,  4 PW Leghorns, 1 leghorn mix, 1 FBCMarans, 1 Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Mama Olive Egger, 1 Olive Egger broody, 1 EE, a Barred Rock, a RIR, a CQ, 1 Delaware, 1 Black Star, a Splash Ameraucana, 3 W/BW Ameraucanas, 5 polish, 2 Welsummers and exactly 63 chicks of various breeds. and 25 eggs in the bator. YIKES!

 

 

"Look for Miracles"

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