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    feeding breakfast cerial to chickens?

    is feeding breakfast cerial to chickens a goood idea because the good cerials contain a high amout of grains or whole grains would it be good for them? could it be good in their diet?
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    grain getting into water via birds?

    my feeder and waterer is separated a good distance. but when i do my weekly trough clean i find a small amount of grain from the feeder in the water. about 15 wheat grains i generally find and it dosent worry me. does any one hav a explanation
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    Grasshoppers - how do you catch them?

    when they are in plauge porportions the locust have trouble flying through i wind break when a wind is up so any gap in the wind break makes the locusts thick and it would be the most perfect spot to put up a net
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    feed/grain cleaners

    does anyone have a home made feed or grain cleaner thatyou use to clean grain want ideas or pictures as im want to make one myself. thinking of incorperating a fan and air supply by air compresser to clen grain along with small grating to let dust out. ideas please
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    Re-using a metal shed for coop?

    our hotes tempreture is about 35 degrres and coldest -3-4 degrees. my shed i tin with a betal frame which is open with one wall not in place. it does get hot in summer but it doset get two hot in the summer as their are tall trees next to it. go for it and im satisfied with my shed. just cut one...
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    mulesing What do you think?

    with the above high rainfall and flooding we are getting more flies breeding on dead drowned animals and infecting the flock. due to the high rainfall we are alos treating sheep on the head, shoulders and hind rump which is a very rare thing to get.
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    mulesing What do you think?

    Quote: Why would they go through four times as much pain?? Makes no sense,... and i dont believe you. Pay attention to your herd and you wont have such a parasite problem that you have to torture a LIVING/FEELING animal....... Lets think.... how DOES it feel to have your SKIN shaved off...
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    mulesing What do you think?

    people should get more educated about this and show that it does better than bad. then we woulnt have any protesters protesting over something that cannot be easily solved. i dont think people could phase out certian breed as it has taken over 200 years to get the ginetics and the main aim of...
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    mulesing What do you think?

    i think people protesting about mulesing dont have the right idea if you dont know what it is then google it. mulesing is a matter of life and death to a sheep. with out it it will go through four times asmuch pain and i have seen it. the odd shepp the one gets misssed is definatly worse off.
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    Skinny hens?

    te problems coluld be above, ticks and worms or coocai. if its cocoai the poop is normally blood ridden. worms symptons include worms in the poop, diareah and look it up more thougholy and their are many mores pages on this problem. Gallo del Cielo has a page on theese two. the others you will...
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    Harassing fox -update - they have decided we aren't good neighbors

    get a ranger or land protection officer im sure they will bate the dens out. another thing they can do and so do we is gas them out. fumitoxin tablets wehn activated turn into a toxic gas that clotts the blood. if they will do it they will put a bit of water into the hole a few tablets and cover...
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    Not your normal RATS!

    i suggest a trap of some sort or semi auto 22 with rat shot. u will get half of them and scare the rest away. but it depends on your gun licence
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    cardboard poop trays? will they absord moisture?

    i use carboard on mesh for my poop boards underneath the roosts and i was wonderin if the carboard would absorb the nitrogen etc when the poop moisure is absorbd by the carboard?
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    Poop Trays???

    my poop boards are under my self constructed roost. i have the roosts sitting on top of a frame which has a shelf built into the frame tat i have large holed mesh sitting on. i put card board on the mesh and when they poop it falls onto the cardboard and the cardboard absords the moisture and...
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    Trashcan for grain stored in coop?

    try to get a sealagle container to keep grain bugs and anything else out without anny losses. like the slating board idea
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