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    Thought meet.

    Thanks for the reply. I tossed the bird strait into the freeze and thawed out a week later to eat. Do they need to age in the fridge before freezing?
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    Thought meet.

    I have been raising a few meat birds and the first two have been rather tough. The birds are still pretty small maybe 2 pounds I think they are about 4 months old. I have tried 2 birds. A buff and a RR. Bought pretty tough. The birds live in a coup and run setup they do not get much exersice...
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    Having lots of issues with my baby chicks

    Yes they had a heat lamp in the shed. I am feeding them the standard chick feed you buy at tractor supply. Same stuff I have used on all my birds.... 2 of the 15 lived and are doing a lot better however deformed still eating the feed. I was thinking it was some type of virus or something
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    Having lots of issues with my baby chicks

    So I use to raise chickens in the city and never had a issue. Now I live in the country and I can't grow a bird for the life of me. I first tried qual. Everything went good the first 2 hatches. After that my birds started dropping dead like crazy. I would put a new Batch of 100 quail out and...
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    I am losing quail every morning please help.

    Anyone have any ideas? Lost two more this morning
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    I am losing quail every morning please help.

    I have them ranging from 5 weeks to 9 months. All have been effected. I live in Florida so the lowest it gets is 75ish but it has been very rainy. The cages are quarter inch welded wire with sides and roof covered for hiding locations some are 10 inches tall some are 18. I have at least 1 sq...
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    I am losing quail every morning please help.

    For the fast 4 days I have woke up to dead quail. The first day there was a single quail dead. The second I had 4 dead and 1 dead on each following day. There have been deaths in 3 different cages. When I go to them in the morning they are already cold and stiff. There is no visible sign of...
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    Home made incubator

    So I found the same turner on amazon. in the description it said it needed a pcb controller? Anyone know any thing about them? am I better off just buying a different motor for it?
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    Home made incubator

    So I made a homemade incubator and it's working out pretty well. I just hatched 23 out of 25 eggs. So I decided to buy an egg turner for it off of eBay. Link below. It says the motor takes 110v and rotates once per hour. I hooked it up and it was rotating 3x a minute and the motor was getting...
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