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    Major unexplained production drop in North Texas

    I live just South of Dallas and have 60 plus layers that even in the heat of the summer I was getting 30-40 eggs a day. I had gotten a few weeks ago a drop to 3-4 eggs a day. A nearby farm had 60 layers getting 1-2 eggs a day for over two weeks. Another neighbor with 70 plus hens was in the...
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    Tina Sleeping in the trees **Photos**

    She is sooooo adorable. (normally not a word I would use)
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    Encouraging exercise & sanitation (Getting 'em off the ground) = cotes

    As long as we are giving links to sources in the early 1900's, here is one that is an excellent read. It has about 53 issues if you can find them all. Below is the link to Issues 1-9 that gives research done on poultry housing and construction plans. These are available free on Google Books...
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    My Chicks have Marek's - Should I Now Vaccinate?

    I received 16 chicks from a hatchery 3 weeks ago and we have discovered what we think is the "gray eye" form of Marek's disease in our chicks. All the irises have gone from bright gold to to a dull blue gray. The chicks are not blind and otherwise seem healthy and active. I had originally...
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    Kill a hawk! Win a $10,000+ fine!

    perchville wrote: I've read Silent Spring, sorry you didn't understand that. I don't know who is right or wrong in this discussion but if this was a debate you would be the looser, hands down. So you read it. That doesn't make it true. Q9 has already stated that a onetime supporter he names...
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    Putting ground up hot pepper in chicken feed.

    Thai peppers!!! Get a rope! No Thai peppers for my hens. Gotta be Jalapeno's, Serrano's or Chili's. Texas birds ain't gonna lay more eating those puny little peppers.
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    Have You Ordered Any Of These Breeds From Ideal Poultry

    My step dads dog killed her Well, that is the nature of the dog. Can't blame the dog for what is natural for it to do. Of course at my place the dog would not be in a position to repeat the offense. Preventing a re-occurrence by whatever means is necessary is in my nature.
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    Electricity IN The COOP?Lights?

    I am building a 6X8 walk-in with running water and electric. Modern housing it is. Nothing but the best for my chickies.
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    which thermometer to trust? HELP!

    Digital shows 98F and mercury shows 102F First of all you probably do not have a mercury thermometer. Most people mistake the "lab" thermometers or thermometers with the red dye in them as mercury thermometers. Those are notoriously inaccurate. A true mercury thermometer is typically...
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    Regarding Light in Winter

    Just a note on what is natural. In the fall, in a natural setting the food the animal/bird eats starts on the cycle of being more scarce and an animal or chicken can conserve energy by spending more time at rest. Because less food is available and long, cold nights are hard on the weakest of...
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    Why drowning should not be part of your predator management plan.....

    If you can't hit a relatively stationary TRAPPED raccoon in the head, from the distance of the top of the trap to the top of it's head (usually MERE INCHES) then maybe you shouldn't own a gun at all. Just my opinion, but I've dispatched many trapped raccoons with a .22 and never once missed and...
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    Why drowning should not be part of your predator management plan.....

    For those that live where firearms are illegal to discharge or that do not own a gun, might I suggest a pellet gun. Not one of those that are toys but a .17 or .22 caliber with enough power to quickly dispatch most varmints such as rats, squirrels and coons quickly. If shooting is the answer...
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    anyone know where to get square egg cartons?????

    eggcartons.com carries the square-er type. 3x4 eggs, rather than 2x6. Wow, I remember these from when my family was in the commercial layer business. We used these for some customers. This was in the late50's/early 60's. I always liked those cartons and though they made more sense than...
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    mounting height of auto waterer?

    Any height would be fine as long as it is low enough that the smallest hen or pullet can bend their neck down to drink. Doing pull ups to drink - not so good.
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