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    Araucana thread anyone?

    You shold have picked up the free chicks Gary L Ramey gave away last week. There were several tufted rumpless chicks.
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    Snowbird posted some pictures of a 55 gallon plastic drum set up for housing individual birds. I can't seem to find them. Does anyone know what pae they're on or how search for them?
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    ATTN: Yokohama Lovers!

    I just came from this breeders farm, and he says that these will be the last eggs he offers this year. These are the best Yokohamas I've ever seen. http://www.ebay.com/itm/331162172317?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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    ATTN: Yokohama Lovers!

    Where do you live rambob59? Campbell is in the Santa Clara Valley
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    ATTN: Yokohama Lovers!

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    ATTN: Yokohama Lovers!

    I did manage to contact the seller, and rambob59, he said you should contact Rick Ferandes in Campbell CA. Although his line is not from Mr Fernandes, he thought that he had some of the best in CA. or at least did when he left CA some years ago.
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    ATTN: Yokohama Lovers!

    Red Shoulder Yokohama eggs on eBay now. Anyone know anything about the seller?...http://www.ebay.com/itm/331156275641?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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    Hawks :(

    Put up a few wind generators and free range your birds beneath them.
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    Question about processing

    When they really get going it's easy to scoop up several cups for treats if you wish. I sometimes set a bucket with offal with a peice of expanded metal over the top in the runs. When the maggots go to seek out a place to pupate in the earth and crawl out of the bucket my birds pick them off...
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    Question about processing

    We process every week so we have quite a lot of offal. Essentially just the intestines since we sell everything else so there are no bones. We dig post holes as we need them with a 10" auger as deep as it will go and make a little compost pit. We soon have BSFs and other fly maggots turning...
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    The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

    The best packing for shipping hatching eggs I ever saw was by an aquaintence. He can put 40 eggs in a medium flat rate box. When he designed this pack, he packed the eggs and then smacked it half a dozen times with an 8 pound sledge, much as if the box were a golf ball and the sledge were a golf...
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    Trio of Geese

    I have a chance to aquire a trio of geese. Do geese have to be raised in in pairs or can a gander handle more than one hen?
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    Black Copper Marans Standards

    I don't get around much, but I was told yesterday that the APA was was judging BCM with both the "American" and "French" standards. When the APA accepted the BCM Standard I printed out the standard as finalized by the Marans club and have been breeding my birds accordingly. Are there now two...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I don't get around much, but I was told yesterday that the APA was was judging BCM with both the "American" and "French" standards. When the APA accepted the BCM Standard I printed out the standard as finalized by the Marans club and have been breeding my birds accordingly. Are there now two...
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    processing tomorrow - what do you do with the "extra" parts?

    Put everything in the compost pile.
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