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does using permethrin require a respite from consuming eggs

what is a nit egg?

does using permethrin require a respite from consuming any eggs?

Beautiful, I have a Wht or pearl Leghorn looking to cross with my Golden Wayandottes. Did you have any successful hatches?

What did you breed with? Mine are 10weeks, and already been on one slim feeding a day, sometimes 2x. Have 7more to butcher but thinking of keeping one to try for eggs with a leghorn or Cochin

Yeah I have the CXs in there own adjacent pen area, so I can feed and mgnt accordingly. So how does one breed broilers or CXs.?

ah, that is helpfull. yeah, looking to keep a decent broiler line on site, something I can incubate, plumps out relatively similar to the CX. I also have a Cochin rooster. if that offers any other genes more compatible with broilers? I was anticipating needing to just find broiler type roo

yeah, how did the off spring turn out?

I'd like to to keep one or two broilers from this batch from McMurray's with a rooster and try to incubate some. I have a mature pearl wht leghorn roo. do they start laying about the the same age as layers? Any good threads on crossing Cornish Cross with others? or tips in how they are...

I'd like to keep one or two broilers from this batch with a rooster and try to incubate some. Are do they start laying about the the same age? Any good threads on that or tips in how they are different to keep vs eggers?

Mine are 8 weeks now, staring to cull some yesterday, whats the coldest they can go outside?, I'm in the high desert and our night are already getting into the high 30s. They don't have coop, just a pen.

What if you separate her from the chick? What if the clutch contains eggs laid over several days or a week? You only get the chicks that hatch together on the first day, others just get abandoned? My broody has been on the clutch for maybe week. I wanted trade some eggs under her.

Have a broody. First time. Likely she's been on them about 7 days. Question is what happens when some eggs hatch at different days? Can I put new eggs under her now, even at this point or up to how many days after she's started keeping a clutch? How long will she sit on eggs after the first...

SO how'd it go ladynthstamp?? did you move them? on Sunday I found a large clutch of 15+ eggs under the top half of a pet carrier we had laying in the open "free-range" zone adjacent to our fully enclosed aviary and coop. likely a range of gestation stages. our COOKU MARAN (SP?) was on them...

I brought home about 10 2 month old birds about 2 months ago. the birds went through a serious pecking spell and many birds had their tail feathers pecked off and several bled,. one worse then all the others. I separated her cause they were basically eating her from the rear. Gross, eh. well she...