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    I have a double yoker trying to hathc!!! ???

    FALSE ALARM!!! I hate it when I see things that aren't there. Either way the chick needed help because it had given up (at least that's what I'm choosing to believe). I carefully broke away the shell from the membrane and am now going to let it do the rest. My eyes were playing tricks on me...
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    I have a double yoker trying to hathc!!! ???

    One of my EE's lays really large eggs and I have been hatching them with success in my hovabator. Well one of them pipped last night and hasn't progressed all day (getting close to 24 Hours), so I thought I would help it out a little (I know you're not supposed to). I peeled back just the part...
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    Sprouting Grains - Bulk Near Sacramento

    SlowRiverFarms, I live in Placerville and am also looking for a place to buy feed in bulk. A while back I talked to a guy who said he found a mill in Galt that would custom mill reasonably sized orders of organic feed. Unfortunately I don't have the guys phone number any more, so I am trying to...
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    What are differences between buying from a hatchery versus a breeder?

    I'm learning that I don't know as much as I thought I did, but somewhere on another post someone said that saying the hatcheries breed for egg production is giving them too much credit. They pointed out that because the hatcheries continue inbreeding their own birds the offspring of those that...
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    Rabbit Information!!! Bunnies!!!

    Wow! I don't know why I remember them being rodents. Apparently too many years have gone by and my memory is starting to screw with me. It has been like 14 years since I was involved in rabbits. Maybe I should leave the rest of this topic to those who's memory still functions. In my defense...
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    How to improve your chances of getting a cockerel from a feed store?

    Quote: I figured there was someone out there like you. Rooster hoarder!
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    How to improve your chances of getting a cockerel from a feed store?

    Quote: Thanks, it's getting dark now, but tomorrow I'll take some good pictures and see what you can come up with. I've been watching them more than usual today and still haven't come up with anything. Right about the time I think I have him figured out I'll walk up to fake scare him and he'll...
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    Rabbit Information!!! Bunnies!!!

    Quote: I haven't had salt licks for my rabbits for the last 8 years. That's something that should be in the feed they're getting, usually. Ya you're right, salt is included in the pelleted rabbit feed. At that time I was not using commercial feed and was experimenting with individual...
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    Rabbit Information!!! Bunnies!!!

    Actually I should correct how I said that, Rabbit Feed in pellet form is the most balanced thing to feed them and they should have timothy hay free choice for fiber, but what I mentioned above works well if you want to move away from commercially prepared feeds. Just as any other animal, when...
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    Rabbit Information!!! Bunnies!!!

    I don't see feed requirements in your list, but this may be useful. When I used to breed rabbits I forgot for a period of time, that rabbits require salt licks. In my forgetting this I lost 2 rabbits to convulsions much like they were having a seizure. When I realized what was causing this I...
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    How to improve your chances of getting a cockerel from a feed store?

    Well, crap, i feel like a horses a$$ right now. Not an hour after I posted this I was cracking eggs open for fried eggs and looking at the spot on the eggs just to get a good clear picture of what non fertile eggs look like an low and behold there is a perfect donut shape around the spot...
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    How to improve your chances of getting a cockerel from a feed store?

    I was thinking about this today, I bought 24 chicks from a feed store figuring that with the 90% sexing accuracy my odds of getting a rooster should yield about 3 roosters, so I would be bound to get one. Well I got 24 pullets, after considering how this happened I remember reading that even as...
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    Setting my eggs 12.3.10...Christmas Chickies who's with me? UPDATE****

    So sad, my broody was 2 days past hatch day with no chicks yet, so I pulled the eggs and gave them the smell test. Every one of them stank, so I did the float test and all floated, so finally I started cracking them open inside a ziplock. Only one was viable and looked very developed but shrink...
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    Setting my eggs 12.3.10...Christmas Chickies who's with me? UPDATE****

    I'm to the hour on the 21st day right now and still nothing. I've been very patient until now. All day I have been waiting for chicks, checking on her about every hour, good thing since she changed nests today. My other pullets started laying and had made a nice comfy nest next to hers, so she...
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    What is Lockdown?

    Ok, I know this is a stupid question, but I keep hearing references to when lockdown should be done, but no explanations as to what it actually is. I have searched all over BYC and haven't been able to find it. The next question is, my broody is on her 21st day today of sitting on her eggs...
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