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    Permaculture Talk and best $1.99 E book ever!

    Hello. I'm wondering how your garden is coming along. I have a back yard garden and a plot that is long and narrow 60" x 120 that i would like to develop.. it has some old apricot tree's that have produced 1 time in the last 4 years.. ( frost has gotten the blooms other years) I would...
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    Mealworm farming

    I have a similar set up. I dont know how to "collect" the eggs, so I've just been saving the frass in the bottom drawer or(because it gets too heavy) in an empty chick feed or dog food bag that they cannot climb out of. I am curious to know how you collect the eggs. I thought they would be...
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    For Marek's clean up, is DC& R just as good as Oxine as a disinfectant?

    Hello. I'm wondering if you had chicks in 2014. And how they fared after your cleanup with oxine. .I have similar coop with dirt floor and suspect mareks for loss of many of my may hatchings. Thanks for the great thread. Debra
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    Gauloise (Bresse) eggs due to hatch on 19-20th

    My My .. what a lot of heart ache! I do hope you've recovered.. and re built your flock.. I h'ad some loss due to 2 large roaming dogs .. while on vacation.. last fall. my sympathy for your losses. I just found / read your thread today.. and was unable to see most of the photo's you...
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    I had to sharpen my tools in the kit.. mine were not sharp.. and not easy to put an edge on.. Most of mine were older/ larger birds.. much thicker to get thru in comparison to the 2 month olds we did in wk shop. - that may have influenced my choice of tools. Though i have a scalpel -...
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    YEA! Ksane.. congrats! on the good job. your closing on the suture looks fan tastic ! I'm going to look into that vet bond.. ? I'm wondering if - Vet bond - dry's out like superglue does? seems my would dry up before i needed to use it again and ended throwing most of it away. ? is it...
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    Jersey Giants thread for pictures and discussion

    Isnt that the truth...!! great looking chicks.. do show us progress as they grow up..
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    Thanks for posting.. you lurker you..( grin ) many folks have that .. I'm going to try and avoid that I did get the nitrile.. they were right there with the others.. and update.. here at the working chick ranch.. there is peace and happy hen's again.. egg production up.. and I'm on to other...
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    Sharing thoughts about the "right time" to Caponize. Advantages to younger and older. After doing several 5 mo old Roosters.. and looking to the future, I had thought the best time if you know your going to raise capons .. would be the younger - 1 lb stage of development. I am also...
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    good point.. Hapless.
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    Up Date.. Caponizing in Kansas.. yesterday. I completed 7 more of the 5 mo. old Roosters. . I think that puts me to 5@ work shop +23 here at home. <for those considering this is different that doing on the young.. birds.. due to size of organ and size of hole that organ must come out of>...
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    I wish you were too.. I certainly had my hands full.. and even the dog is stepping lightly after last week. First time plucker.. here.. and i can certainly see the benefits of a NN X with any thing.. to give a minimal plucking job on Capons..
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    I found this today.. about skin healing.. -- - People apply vitamin K to the skin to remove spider veins, bruises, scars, stretch marks, and burns. It is also used topically to treat rosacea, a skin condition that causes redness and pimples on the face. After surgery, vitamin K is used to speed...
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    McMurray Mix - 5 mo old what could they be?

    yes.. but the cuckoo hens.. you can cross with a black bird.. ? for the sex link.. is this correct? I have black Jersey Giants and several barred hens.. I'm hoping if they are Marans I will be able to differentiate the eggs from the other hens.. is that possible? < I have hen's too.. tho...
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