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    My homemade inc for 1000 eggs

    Very nice. Good job on the incubator Dmitrys! I built one this spring and am already looking to build bigger like you did also.
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    Poultry automatic drinker cups breaking

    Yes, little orange cups with yellow flippers. I haven't had any problem since putting boards above them. I do turn the water off at night just in case.
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    Advice on type of chick

    We raise several breeds and basically so far just butcher whatever we have extra like roosters we don't sell. Mostly Rhode island reds but we butcher them young like 3-4 months old. Yes their small compared to a Cornish cross but the flavor is amazing and soft. When our Sussex starts laying I'm...
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    Making my own chicken feed

    I've looked at doing this for years. I've came real close to buying a mixer grinder. My only problem is if I buy all the ingredients its a break even or even lose not counting my time. I go through a lot of feed also. I drive about an hour away to get cheap feed directly from a feed mill. Now if...
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    Poultry automatic drinker cups breaking

    Hi, first off this is my first post so hello! I have been coming here for years but just reading this or that. I have a large shed divided up into different chicken pens for each of our breeds and ran water out to it which was a large enough of a project, with some help from my boys we dug a...
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