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    Question for those making homemade chicken feed.

    I make my own mix using a base bag of whatever 50 lb corn and wheat scratch and add 25 lb saffower, 2.5 lbs.meal worms . So The scratch is 9.5 % protein, safflower is like 25% and meal worms are really high at 50%. So total protein for a 77.5 lb mix is 84.5%...roughly 10% per lb. I feed 1lb per...
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    Mealworm farming

    I am wondering if I can manage to farm the meal worms I find in the compost I have on my farm. So do I just get some containers and then what? When they are in the worm stage do I dry them like the ones I buy or just freeze them and use them like that? Are they good for the chickens in the...
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    Reasons to get turkeys

    I know how you feel. I was on the "fence" too. I waited a while to broach the subject but it never came up. So I was in the feed store one day and there were these last four poults almost two weeks old and nobody to love them. So I bought them. Not going to say its the best thing I have ever...
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    Preparing for the heat wave

    I am new too. I am worried that my chicks (also about 11 weeks) are getting hot during the day already. I have a kiddie pool I was going to put out for them under a tarp but not sure if they will use it? I also have been freezing some gallon water jugs to put out in the yard for them. I am...
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    I over did it! Need help feeling in over my head.

    Thank you kuntrygirl for the info and links. I am hatching turkeys this weekend and this will help me formulate how I house them along with my chickens. I had already decided to separate them and it is good to see how you have done it. I am still in the design phase of my coops and houses and...
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    June Hatch a Long

    Do you charge them for the incubation?
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    Food and water inside coop or outside coop? Pros? Cons?

    I just did something similar with my birds. I have them in a temporary setting right now since my coop is not done and they dump all their food out in it all the time. I have been taking them out to a temporary run in the yard everyday and sprinkling scratch out there for them. It was not...
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    new from oregon. foster mother thoughts.

    Hello, I hope to have some Narragansette turkeys about the first of June. So far out of 15, one broken and four looking viable at 15 days into incubation. I am from Southern Oregon and just saw your post that you were from Oregon too so thought I would say hello.
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    Hello from northern California!

    Hello from Southern Oregon!
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    Hello from Oregon!

    Hey I am from Oregon too. I purchased my eggs from the lady next door from me for a trial to see if I could even hatch any. I did hatch them and they are such easygoing little creatures. Hope you have good luck with yours.
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    Hey from Oregon!

    Hey there I have been coming on BYC for a while now and love the knowledge everyone has to share! I am a new farmer with a small place but big enough that I get overwhelmed with the possibiliies. I have 9 chickens of various ages. I bought 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes at 2 weeks of age and now...
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    first time turkeys

    Thank you for those tips. I am trying to keep the incubator at or around 100.5 and 50% humidity. Is that about right do you think? I am at the just wait and see stage. I candled them and only see 1 moving and 3 that are of the same stage but no movement...
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    Failing miserably at hatching eggs

    I think that would be very helpful. I know I just posted a thread about turkey brooding but I am also having a hard time just getting them to the hatch without frying or freezing them! At first we had a power outage 3 times and they went down to about 85 degrees. But since then they have been up...
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    first time turkeys

    Hi, I am incubating 14 turkey eggs (Narragansett). I am having trouble keeping the temperature from fluctuating in my still air incubator so hoping they all survive. In hopes they do I have a question: How long do I keep them in the brooder when they do come out?
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