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    Rescued silkie cross tips?

    comb is tiny, no crowing, plus i vent checked, definately a girl. I have had chickens for years and have never seen a hen not lay at a year old. That is why i asked. But ty for answering.
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    Rescued silkie cross tips?

    Hi All! Well I said I would NEVER have a silkie (or any other "designer birds") but I just couldn't turn this girl down. I picked her up at the local rescue about a month ago, she was there because she was found to be "ugly" and had never laid. She is a young bird, I was told she hatched last...
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    Hardware Cloth Vs. Chicken Wire

    don't get me wrong I have hated the stuff for years, just was trying to bring the budget and weight of this tractor down. At this rate its going to be a $2000 contraption! Going to have to raise a heck of a lot of birds to break even! Interesting that mice were a problem though. I have seen...
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    Hardware Cloth Vs. Chicken Wire

    I haven't got to building it yet, a little too much snow at the minute! lol I am just in my planning phase! But I think I have decided on just a plain salatin style tractor from pvc pipe just to keep the weight down. standard size 10x5x2 for about 25 birds. I did want to be sure it was top...
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    Beilefelders and first time in 30 years questions!

    thank you! very helpful! So I am thinking for my first attempt 5 is a good number. Likely over a few days. Just to stick my feet in and get a feel so I can then figure out what is best to do.
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    Beilefelders and first time in 30 years questions!

    yup, have a spare fridge! Yes, I did not even think of doing more then one at a time start to finish! I was kind of thinking of doing all the boys on one day before they started to get noisy and letting the girls get a bit bigger, doing them a few weeks later.
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    Beilefelders and first time in 30 years questions!

    I do have a bolt gun to stun them before I cut their throats. I prefer to use a scalpel, I am comfortable with them. My dad used a sharp hatchet. Yes, I was thinking of using my giant stock pot and bbq side burner with digital meat thermometer to scald starting out. My youngest is too young...
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    Hardware Cloth Vs. Chicken Wire

    i w ok if i must, I will! It will be about $1000 tractor though! So to keep the weight down, how do I attach it to pvc pipe? And what do you suggest I use for a skirt? Those nasty things dig nuts! I do use the preditor lights and move the tractors daily. So far only one dig attempt but no...
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    Hardware Cloth Vs. Chicken Wire

    I have heard of people trying double or triple layers of offset chicken wire, would that work in a pinch? Hardware cloth is hard to work with an very very expensive around here to cover a 10x10 meat tractor. I am thinking it would also be a lot easier on uneven sold clay dirt to make an anti...
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    Beilefelders and first time in 30 years questions!

    lol in my house i bake/roast everything save eggs! I traditionally roast a whole bird for Sunday supper, then we get 3-4 meals over the following week. Mine are show quality stock imported from germany at great time and expense. I figured if I was going to do it, I was going to do it right...
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    Beilefelders and first time in 30 years questions!

    So when I was a kid, we raised standard meat monsters. Flash forward a few decades, I am a single mom who decided to get beilefelders as a friendly dual purpose breed for my kids. Plus, as they are sexable as chicks, I figured I could cover some of my costs by selling on female chicks and keep...
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    Quail chicks! Help its an emergency!

    The quail seem to be doing fine. However I have one that doesn't seem to be growing at the same rate. He seems to run around, eat and poop the same... but he is at least a week behind in growth and a few days behind... he is just starting to sprout pin feathers and the others already have...
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    Quail chicks! Help its an emergency!

    jumbos because i like bigger eggs/birds/dogs/chickens/rabbits lol same amount of work, more meat/egg. Pharoah no particular reason just feather sexable for my kids. Bigger animals are easier for small kids too. Generally in my experience the larger the animal the more likely that are to be...
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    Quail chicks! Help its an emergency!

    Yes, most the the google places I messaged don't ship or don't have jumbo pharaoh. I have heard good things about breezy bird farm, but I have to wait until spring as its far too cold atm to ship eggs. I could get easy to vermont, but I am pretty sure if I got caught bringing back eggs there...
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    Quail chicks! Help its an emergency!

    Quebec, Canada... almost impossible to import fert eggs here... I know because last spring I imported very endangered chicken eggs, the hoops and expense was crazy!
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