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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    The list is a great idea. Please add me too. Greenbrier, TN, just a few miles North of Nashville Speckled Sussex Thanks! ...edited to remove "may be available later" breeds.
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    Wafer Thermostat horizontal or vertical ??

    This is an old thread, but the wafer can be mounted vertically or horizontally. Some Styrofoam incubators have a horizontal mount and the 1502 bators had vertical wafers before they went digital.
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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    Be careful buying sex links, as they are not autosexing. You can only tell males from females in a first generation cross (RIR or NH x Rock). Lots of folks will breed sex links and sell them as such, but it's not the same the next generation. There are a few folks around selling Bielefelder...
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    pararkeet breeding

    I am not an expert by any means, but I did have a couple breeding pairs of parakeets many years ago. They like to nest in a box (Google search "parakeet nest box" to see one). The babies will be born naked, blind and helpless. The parents will feed them and care for them. There may be more that...
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    How to wait before hatching a young pullet's eggs?

    I read in Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens that it is best to wait six weeks after a hen begins laying before breeding. This is supposed to make for better fertility and stronger chicks. Two of my 6 1/2 month old Speckled Sussex hens started laying today. I am probably not going to be able to...
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    I found a great vitamin / mineral / probiotic supplement for our fermented feed, Fertrell Nutribalancer. It has a greater variety of minerals than any other supplement I have found. It contains eight different fermenting probiotics and our fermentation has been rocking since I started using it...
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    Ways to Improve Health?

    I've been adding Fertrell Nutribalancer to the feed for a couple weeks now. I knew that I liked the stuff when I read about it. When I saw the label I fell in love. None of the other supplements I have seen can even come close to this. Here's the ingredient list: Dicalcium Phosphate...
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    Swollen toes, doesn't look like bumble foot

    Thank you for your replies. I should have taken a closer look sooner. It is frostbite. I didn't want the wind to steal their heat so I put a tarp over the house on the days when it got really cold. I have read since then that poor ventilation can raise humidity & contribute to frostbite. It...
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    Swollen toes, doesn't look like bumble foot

    I have BCM chicks that are 9 weeks old. We had sub zero temperatures a couple weeks ago and they stayed very close to the lamp for days. I did not notice until it was too late that they had been pooping and standing in it during that cold spell. They had plenty of house space, but they stayed in...
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    Ways to Improve Health?

    Here's a tip from Joe Salatin: I can't verify it myself because I haven't tried it yet, but I do trust his experience. He raises thousands of chickens & says that since they started using Fertrell's Nutri-Balancer they have stopped using liquid supplements and have gotten rid of their "hospital...
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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    If you tap the nipple once in a while to make a water droplet dangle it may grab their attention ...worked for mine.
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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    Hanging CDs works wonderfully. They spin & flash in the sun. They don't bother the chickens but scare the hawks away.
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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    Mail-order eggs usually have a terrible hatch rate. the bigger the eggs, the lower the chance of hatching. ...could set the little fellow up for disappointment.
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    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    There's an ad on craigslist from a breeder in Murfreesboro, south of Nashville. I've never dealt with them, but it looks like they may have what you're looking for: http://nashville.craigslist.org/grd/4168771032.html They also have a website with pictures of their breeding stock...
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