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    Waterer lid for pickle jar

    Do they make a waterer lid for gallon pickle jars.. the plastic ones they sell don’t last..
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    Turkeys how many males to females

    I started with 4 toms and 1 hen. Now I have 2 toms and 18 hens
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    Silencing a rooster

    With only one rooster he will become aggressive anyway and will fight with you
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    help?!?!?!

    buy an electric fence charger and run wire about 3 inches from the ground... i use a light switch to turn mine off during the day when i let my birds out...critters don't like electricity..
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    Mute guineas

    Has anyone else gotten any of the new mute guineas? Actually at a church function I had a friend that loved guineas but not the racket convinced of this new breed. Until his wife elbowed him.
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    Immediate crisis, abandoned egg, please help

    One of the earliest incubators were egg coats that Chinese women wore to incubate eggs. They had a lot of pockets to keep the eggs apart and body heat incubated them. It required sleeping on their backs and not rolling though. LOL
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    Rooster Training Advice

    With just 1 rooster you are lucky that’s all he is doing. Most like to bow up against something to impress the lady’s. With 2 roosters they will pretty much compete with each other and not you. That being said I have way too many roosters and the one Banty that bows up at me very occasionally...
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    Raccoon Baiting

    They love corn.
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    Low Hatch Rate

    The key is how well the temp control works. If the thermostat sticks one time eggs could be ruined.
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    Testing My Dogs with the Flock

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    How 'extra' do I have to be?

    Washing hands works. Good luck with the reds. They are great layers but roam way to much for free range. My last one dissapeared 2 weeks ago. My other hens stay closer to home.
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    Will a Large Black Rat snake try to kill my full sized BA's???

    I had a hen setting in a 5 gallon bucket... a big chicken snake constricted and killed her before eating all the eggs.. I does happen rarely
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    Incubating Quail eggs: Variations in temperature

    I keep my incubator in an unused bathroom with the door shut to maintain temp better. Good luck with selling eggs and young birds. 100 quail will eat s lot of expensive food quickly and when grown probably 3 to 5 lbs a day or more.
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    Incubating Quail eggs: Variations in temperature

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    Incubating Quail eggs: Variations in temperature

    I added another layer to my desktop incubator. The top layer stays at 100 degrees and hatches at 16 days. The 2nd layer stays at 98 to 99 and hatches on day 17. Both hatch good but the lower temp slows the process down a little.
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