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Dubrovnik, a poultry swap coming up in Austin mid April. Says I must have Pt papers and TAHC Sales Permit. What are ghose? Not Llowed to sell live animals.at farmers market. Thanks

Due to health and age, time to hang it up. Must dispose of old stew hens first, maybe 300 of them. Any suggestions? Any petfood manufacturers in our areathat would payus something for them? Or do you all have any other suggestions? Thank you.

Hi, Iowans. I am trying to locate Norman Monk, an Amish man in Iowa I bought point-of-lay chickens from . I lost his phone number and want to order again very badly. Can anyone pm me his contact info.

I remember reading an arti le on the mushrooms in the coop. The guy gave the mushrooms a little while to get starte before letting chi kens in. Then he coveredit with some kind of wire to keep the chickens.from destroying the main "root system" (can't remember proper term). Then he covered all...

I bought point of lay chickens from Norman Monk twice and want to again. However I lost contact information. He is an.Amish.man in Iowa who raises and sells large numbers of high-line browns. Does.anyone have his contact info? Please PM.me with it if you do. Thanks.

Gateway, tried to pm u but couldn't. We are about to buy a phoenix 6010 and wanted to know if u could copy those manuals for us too? Gladly pay you. Our email is [email protected]. pls send us your answer and Contact info. Phone would be great.

Well, I raised mine with my chickens.too. they still seem to be wandering off or.preditors re getting them...something isaking them disappear. They get oved our 4' net fence and are theb too stupix to figure out how to get back Frustrating but I will get replacements. We were ovefrun with...

Poultry are ruled by length of daylight for layong as much as temperature. No doubf your days are shorter now. You can try a light on a timer to grf her day length back to normal. But it does sound like she's been thru a lot of trauma. It will probably fake a lot of time to trust her...

HOW DO YOU KEEP THEM ALIVE AND DRY. We tried 5gal Waferer w/ round trough around it. Tjey constantly got in water and cold. So in desperation we bought 1 gal. Buckets w/ 2 nipples each. They still soak their saw dust. Thermomeger sayz 97 during day but I suspect it dips loaer in early morning...

I have tried fwo different electronic devices. Neither worked.

We are building a small poultry slaughter house to do our own various birds including ducks for our farmers market booth and hope to then expand to processing for public. I can find appropriate scalders & pluckers but not duck waxers. All look too gigantic for our size operation. Anyone have an...

Whole lot easier to break. I raise quail. Check your local craigslist or other such pubs. There's bound to be quail raisers around. They're everywhere. That way you can get them locally and not take those risks.

Anybody have one for sale? Willing to travel. Prefer AquaMagic or a model that dries too, but willing to consider others. Must do at least 200-300 eggs/hour. Thanks. PM me with info, price, location and contact phone number. Connie

Hi. I'm in TX, Waco area. Read that Micks Chicks who I have seen here has his own slaughterhouse. And read article about the one the Noels used to have in a Rodale publication. Trying desperately to start our own and would like to connect with people who have been there, done that, for some...

Just sseeing this after so long. Thanks. Will check out TX Quail Farm.