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    Strange Incubation

    They were in the house with a/c on, temp about 68 or so, don't have any idea of humidity, most likely below 50%. THANX RICH People say I'm getting crankier as I get older. That's not it. I just find I enjoy annoying people a lot more now. Especially younger people!!!
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    Strange Incubation

    Haven't been on here in a long time. Spend a bit of time on the sister forum TEG. I thought this might be something that others here would be interested in. We have one female turkey that just reached the age where she started laying eggs, she would lay them anywhere she felt like. (our birds...
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    Check out my new coop on wheels

    Quote: I would move out anything that I could. Go to pool store or big box hardware store and pick up a couple of bottles of liquid chlorine, then using a presure washer, siphoning the chlorine through the washer, I'd clean this thing out top to bottom. Then a high press rinse, let dry, and...
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    So disappointed I could actually cry...

    I live a half hour west of St. L. and just finished up my garden planting on the 10th. Most everything I planted then has broke ground. If I were you I'd direct plant seeds and find me some plants at a garden centewr or where ever you can and get them in the ground also. THANX RICH People say...
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    Please Help!! What do I do? CAR ACCIDENT ****ADVICE/HELP****

    Why haven't you contacted a lawyer and have him plead this down to a non moving violation. I've done this a few times and never went to court. The only time I did go to court, I pleaded not guilty, all that did was get me a new court date for a jury trial. I then went and talked to a lawyer who...
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    Started my coop today!!

    Where did you get the brackets? Very nice looking coop!!! THANX RICH People say I'm getting crankier as I get older. That's not it. I just find I enjoy annoying people a lot more now. Especially younger people!!!
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    calling all home schoolers

    Quote: That must be wonderful, homeschooling a college student!!!! THANZ RICH People say I'm getting crankier as I get older. That's not it. I just find I enjoy annoying people a lot more now. Especially younger people!!!
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    Burning Shavings...

    Quote: I don't normally say anything negative on here, but when some one who works for a govt. agency tells me how bad it is to do something I've been doing for a long, long time and it works fine for me, I have to say something Every time you guys (The Govt) launches one of their Shuttles...
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    I need ADVICE!!!

    From my experience, you did the right thing. We have had very few broodie hens that have ever stayed with their chicks for very long. Usually it happens just as you said, keeping 1 or 2 with her and wandering off leaving the others to fend for themselves. About the only time they take a complete...
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    who has guinea fowl

    There has never been any bird I didn't like,UNTIL we got 6 guineas. They were a pest to all our other birds and made more noise than the law should allow. Found homes for all but one, he's not so bad, shows all the traits stated in the previous posts. People say I'm getting crankier as I get...
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    Marking on eggs with sharpie, bad thing?

    We use a Sharpie all the time on hatching eggs, we just never use an incubator, hens only!!! The only reason we mark the eggs is that other hens lay in the nest box the broodie is in and we only let her hatch one at a time. Our hatch rate has been 100% since we've used this method. People say...
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    where are the wonderful st. louis area chicken people ????

    Howdy, on the MO side also. About 30 miles So. of St Louis. Live on 15 acres, have 30 something chickens, a couple donkeys, lots of dogs & cats, and oh yes one emu. I have a collection of old Hot Rods and Vintage race cars. My wife is an artist involved in comissioned pet portraits. We are both...
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    brother/sister mating ok?

    Quote: WOW!!! Sounds just like Judge Judy!!!
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    Help my goat ate...

    They eat cans, don't they? This too shall pass.
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    emu eggs :-D

    Quote: This one only lays in early spring. I eat the contents of the eggs. If you look close at the pic of the egg you will see a small white spot at the very bottom, that is a hole I drilled, along with another one at the other end. I then use a wire bent in the shape of an L, insert it in...
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