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    Chicken knives recommended

    When i was a kid [17 yrs ] I worked for an old German guy he had a grain mill and a small farm. In November and December he would send me to the farm to butcher White BB Turkeys. The bird was set into the cone and then we would stick the bird through the mouth and up into the brain. If you did...
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    Good Friday Massacre

    I know a guy who lets his flock run loose day ad night as you did. When a predator comes by they go into the stall with the horse or the cow and he hasn't lost a bird to a small predator, the BIG RED 18 wheelers out on the main road well that's another story. foux
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    Someone Killed One Of My Chickens!!

    Quote: Two leg human or dog. Try putting him in chains and tying the dead chicken around his neck and make him sit there for a while. No I guess we can't do that. Call the cops and show them the picture from the deer cam. foux003
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    soybean meal..

    Ok I may have said the wrong thing. The SOY BEANs that we ground when I was a kid may have been heated just not by us. They were bulk, 100 ton to a load and they were whole and they just looked like dried beans. As I remember we used it in Dairy, Beef and Poultry Feeds that we mixed. foux
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    I found out why there were less eggs since it got warm.....

    Quote: Black Rat Snake is non poisonous snake that hangs around and eats RATS and other small CRITTERS. They will eat chicks and small birds.
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    Hardwire floor

    I have had chickens both on wire and a solid floor. I liked the wire because poop thing falls through to the ground. No bedding to buy, no coop to clean, no shoveling very clean especially with XROCKS After my crop of HERITAGE TURKEYS the wire got so stretched that I had to put 1 x 3 boards...
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    My destiny has changed ! They moved in, pic's on on 36

    I use a 16 foot aluminum truck van body and it works out well. It came complete with a curb side door and if need be as in a Hurricane or Blizzard I can shut and lock the door, keeping the birds safe. It only cost me $100.00 and was delivered to my yard,. The only problem was it was dropped with...
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    oyster shell... or tums... or...?

    Quote: Calcium Carbonate is Calcium Carbonate. CaCO3 It realty doesn't matter where you get it from. We used to add GROUND LIMESTONE in all feed that we mixed, over 200 tons a week in an old batch mixer.. I am sure that the pottery CaCO3 would work just fine, the chickens don't care if it's...
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    How do you get rid or Opssums & Racoons ???

    Quote: My Mother's Black Lab and her Beagle had free roam of our yard. the Beagle would find the woodchuck and the Lab would kill it and then eat the head. The poor Beagle never got a taste. This worked out well until the Beagle died and then the Lab never hunted again. That's when I started...
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    How do you get rid or Opssums & Racoons ???

    Years ago when me dad had his several thousand chickens, if we trapped any predators including rats. We would put them into a barrel with a hose stuck into one end and the other jammed up the tail pipe of the family pickup. Does any one here remember the old feed bags? Cotton with a print. The...
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    Chicken Feed

    Quote: Yes not only very cheap feed but I got paid to load then in my truck and feed my animals. I shoveled all the SPROUTED ACORNS with a side of WORMS into the chicken yard and when they were done I shoveled them into the pig yard. From a pile [a big pile] on the ground headed for the...
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    Do chickens eat earwigs??

    Quote: Nice duck, way when I was still in grade school I had some ducks and one hatched some eggs. Well one duck couldn't pip, so I helped it out. That duck a drake would follow me every place I went. It would even follow me into the house and to the school buss stop. One quarter mile down a...
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    Do chickens eat earwigs??

    Earwigs, Maggots, Meal worms and grubs. all free and fresh protein for chickens. I just fed mine a ton of worms.
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    Chicken Feed

    A neighbor paid me to clean up all the acorns in her yard, it's a very small yard with one very large white oak. I have never seen so many nuts come from one tree. I hauled 3 cubic yards of nuts from just that one small yard. They were sprouting and loaded with worms and my chickens and pigs...
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    soybean meal..

    Quote: I think that is way to much but I don't know about the heated meal that you guys are talking about. When I worked at the feed mill we would run whole soy beans through the hammer mill and make our own meal. We went by recommendations made by the livestock specialist and 1 to 2 is way to...
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