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    Wing Clipping

    Most chickens will have set the first adult flight feathers in wings by about 7 months.
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    Just think about what you post. You attacked the reason behind doing it without even taking time to learn what was actually being done. Even an abandoned thread it not yours to commandeer. I see no clear indications you understand what I was doing.
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    None of what you add has been along the lines of what I set out to do. You simply high jacked a thread with a bunch of random ramblings.
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    If you could only understand my dissappointment
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    Location where applications carried out was well ventilated.
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    Feeding Biochar to chickens... Anyone tried it?

    I did not carry it out long enough. A trial of months or years with more chickens would required. Tracking heavy metals also needed.
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    Feeding Biochar to chickens... Anyone tried it?

    I am not. I provided in four forms. First was as part of dust bathing mixture. 1) The chickens bathed in it and consumed some of the larger particulates. Consumption rate was not known. 2) I also mixed with into a crumbled feed mixture dry. Intake of biochar was less than proportional to...
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    American Gamefowl

    There appears to be no soy in the bird mix. I’ll get pictures and ingredient lists. There is a lot of sunflower seed in one of the mixes. Another is dominated by a mixture of millets. Yet another has a lot of nuts including peanuts.
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    American Gamefowl

    He is a mid June hatch. I think I have seen it before with cocks where they look Hennie during the summer. The stag in this case has poor feathering from being kept to tight at night on an extended road trip to Montana. I wander if one of the grains in the wild bird mix has a lot of estrogen...
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    American Gamefowl

    Something is up with this stag that I think is diet related. He should be black-breasted red duckwing and overall pretty close to wild-type. He’s been given free-choice access to blocks of wild bird seed. He also gets same amount of a complete 20% crude protein feed in the form of pellets and...
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    American Gamefowl

    We had fun with cock above and his two brothers by the same mother.
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    Cycling a Broody Hen in the House

    Egg cannibalism issue. Previous brood is doing it. House lacking behavioral enrichment and is a bit tight too. Alternative nest sites will be provided that are more sequestered. Previous brood will be given more activities away from selected nest site. Hen also molting for second time
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    Cycling a Broody Hen in the House

    I fell asleep in the middle of making the bed. One of the chicks from the previous brew of the pair setting a clutch now decided to settle on me and take a nap on my head.
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    Cycling a Broody Hen in the House

    Probably a wicker basket with soil and straw added. Soil is more for stability so she does not tip nest before enough eggs to weigh it down.
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