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    Rooster help with illness

    You need to call a vet. I know you said you dont have one but you need to call defra or your vershion of it where you live. In the UK defra will help you. They will put you in contact with someone and even come to you free of charge to inspect. They are there to help and will. Ive called defra...
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    Two chicks died, moved remaining to new coop but they won't go in at night

    Put tasty food in the coop a treat like fish, do it every evening and when they are in shut them in. They will know tasty food is in the coop in the evening so when you go in they will follow. They will run in, its also a good idea to keep them in that coop until they know its home and safe at...
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    Why is nobody laying?!

    Yes I sell mine continually. I let them hit peak laying and sell them at premium price. I dont care if it takes a month to sell I always get maximum price
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    Topic of the Week - Cleaning and Storing Eggs

    I tip out nest boxes on the floor of the coop after a check then put new nesting material in. That keeps muck to a minimum and if one has a bit of poop on I wash it with soapy water as I would the dishes but genrally they are clean but I do use lots of wood shavings at least 4 inches thick all...
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    Why is nobody laying?!

    With the trout its oily too and I think that effects the feathers in the chickens. They look very healthy
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    Why is nobody laying?!

    I had the same problem then started to feed my chickens trout a few times a week bone and all cooked, but I catch my own trout and its expensive to buy. My chickens picked up laying within a a few weeks and now lay more than ever. They need lots of calcium protein, fish is packed with both and...
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    Maggots

    Shop for me they eat rotten meat that's why I was asking the weird question can chickens pick up anything from them such as salmonella
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    Maggots

    lol
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    Maggots

    Just hook them head first onto the hook
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    Dry Incubation Humidity Levels

    I wouldn't want to tell you the wrong thing but Id go with the two reading the same. I'm using a digital one and one with a dial on that's used for vivarium's and the always read about the same but if I had 3 and one was reading different from the other two id go with the two
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    Home Made Incubator Novice Hatch

    Good idea I think Ill do that after my first hatch. I'm making a brooder next out of an old fridge freezer it packed up so ill get my angle grinder around it I've removed the cooling element and now I'm going to cut through the freezer and fridge to make it into one unit. Ill post some pics if...
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    Dry Incubation Humidity Levels

    I've just started out myself and I'm using forced air and get the same readings throughout as the air is circulated and any difference is very small because the air is constantly circulated but that's why I went with forced air because warm air rises so it would be warmer near the heating...
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    Maggots

    I was just wondering if they could pick anything up from them but I suppose if there clean what harm can it do
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    Home Made Incubator Novice Hatch

    Hi thanx I didn't think of putting the equipment above so Ill be doing that, I've been turning by hand every few hours, When I'm not in my wife takes over. The eggs seem to be developing fine and I see movement in all ten eggs still, I've put a pop bottle in full of water and that seems to help...
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    Maggots

    Weird question here for everyone! Well among my many hobbies and pastimes fishing is right up there on the favorites list and I was sat there fishing watching the usual Robbin who seems to follow me around my favorite fishing venue come for his usual feast in my maggot box when I realized at the...
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