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    Day 21 - Should I be worried?

    Have you candled the egg recently?
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    11 Hours Without Power

    Woke up this morning at 5 am and heard peeps so I went to bed. When i got out of bed at 8 am there was only one chick. Now there are 4 and I see lots of piping going on. It's day 21 and we had a delay. Running these bators the same as we were for our Dorking chicks last spring and they always...
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    11 Hours Without Power

    Thank you sourland.
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    11 Hours Without Power

    We lost power for 11 hours and the incubators were down the entire time, in the house and the house got down to 67 degrees. Outside it got cold and chicks that hatched Saturday night / Sunday morning were out in the garage and i was sure they died from exposure. I couldn't bring myself to go...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I get an egg almost every day from my hens that are just now a tad over 1 yr old. Don't have enough experience with different colors other than black and white, Have 1 SG hen so my input there isn't any good. My blacks are excellent eggs layers, eggs aren't as white as the white birds produce...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    My black Dorkings are usually right on time but it seems most of the whites have been taking an extra day but not all of them....
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    I would say, most definitely, we feed our chickens fermented grains, fodder, scratch, table scraps, their predators (sometimes), dry bag feed, egg shell etc. They love a well rounded diet. We are working on raising crickets and are also working on the solar lights over a bun pan filled with...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    You are correct to be careful with soy. But as stated once germinated it's a different animal but I don't plan on feeding many soy sprouts to our birds. We ferment our soy meal with cracked corn, oats and wheat. Fermenting also changes the soy into a nutritional feed without the anti-nutritional...
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    Growing fodder for chickens

    Been planting organic non GMO Soybeans and lentils and other grains and pseudo grains to make fodder with. First time we've done anything like this, always planted veggies though. This autumn we plan to plant wheat, barley, rye and spelt. All organic non GMO of course, already have the seed...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    If i catch them in the shorter live trap they can't raise their tail. Either way I shoot the stinky things right in the trap if they spray i just hose the trap off from a distance. I let the trap dry and let the stink die down before i go near it. I don't catch and release.... Use rubber...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Make that 14 whites 2 blacks and still no spots. Maybe I finally got the right birds together. Guess I shouldn't be worrying about the spots so much anyway. The chicks are looking really nice and it sure is cool watching them have the run of the big coop. Know I shouldn't say it but they sure...
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Not to get off topi c but it seems that wood wouldn't be the most sanitary container for fermenting cheese. How are you supposed to clean the barrel between batches? All I can say is YUCK! Thats what stainless steel is about in the food industry. It's not usually about alcohol but about being...
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    If you aren't distilling it, the chance of methanol poisoning is quite minimal.... All I'm trying to state here.... Edited to say: This will be the last time I mention anything about alcohol in this thread, Every time I do, it's the same basic result.
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Skunks will crawl right up a chickens butt to get an egg. I'm here to tell ya, don't do the chicken much good. Was told they will even do that to a rooster..... They don't know the difference I guess...
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    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Yes when it's colder I do that if i have the time. I try and give my birds a well balanced diet and meat is part of it. I'm thinking that possum is better for them than that bag of GMO food I get from TSC. Of course the possum probably ate plenty of GMO corn before he came here. I call it hair...
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