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    Orlopp Bronze Turkeys

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    Advice urgently needed here, what can I grow at home to feed my flocks?

    they ate the half my garden that wasn't washed away last year (flash flood), gonna be putting vinyl snow fence to keep their beaks out of my garden this year! Great info! ty
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    The Incubator Thread

    I have a few questions: anyone know a good design for a build it at home incubator? I also need a complete Dummy's guide to hatching....been depending on hatcheries the past few years...
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    Advice urgently needed here, what can I grow at home to feed my flocks?

    We have approx 30 laying hens (mainly Rhodes) and hope to expand into breeding and raising Bronze OR Ridley bronze turkeys. We have been feeding the laying hens a 99% gmo free commercial feed, and it is so expensive. Our flock also free ranges all day ( locked at night due to predators) I have...
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    how do you make your own chicken scratch? Recipes needed

    May I ask what you use for laying mash? And would you have any idea where I could find recipes for : turkeys, ducks, & pheasants? I am very grateful for any advice! I want to get completely away from commercial feeds.....
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    BYC parrot and parakeet club

    I am by no means a "Parrot Whisperer" but I have spent years learning how these sweet birds see things, just offering to help......too many birds wind up in Shelters, who are totally unable to help them...
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    Growing Your Chicken's Own Feed?

    TYVM! I do have telephone access to world class Agricultural College and University, and they would have crop lists for our climate.....Guelph Univ and Kemptville College of Agricultural Technology.....in fact I took a course at Kemptville decades ago!
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    BYC parrot and parakeet club

    arghhhhhh...it will only get worse if you move his cage around, makes a parrot insecure......if I may suggest, that you educate your family on Parrot behaviors and needs? IF you are in Canada or USA I can phone you and we can talk about what could help? (I have unlimited calling through Canada &...
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    Growing Your Chicken's Own Feed?

    WOW! TYVM, did you happen to find a feed mic for meat birds? I know I can buy the wheat and corn from local farmers, gonna price out the other ingredients......if you are finding this info on a website, please share the source? I also need to work out blends for Turkeys and Pigs.....as well as...
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    Growing Your Chicken's Own Feed?

    That would be greatly appreciated! We are on 45 acres here, and are just starting out....
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    BYC parrot and parakeet club

    If you give him what he wants, he will never stop, in fact it will get worse.....you have to ignore him when he screeches. Or try going into another room, when he "flock calls" softly and calmly say "i am here" and when he stops screeching, go into the room and reward him with attention and...
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    Is this early BUMBLEFOOT? (pics) If so... how to treat at this stage?

    The site seems to have changed, so your link just takes me to the cover page, not to the article, any chance you could please find it again?
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    Growing Your Chicken's Own Feed?

    Greetings My Fellow Fowl Friends, I have been looking for, and not succeeding at finding, a reasonably comprehensive list of feeds I can grow for laying hens, and also for meat chickens.....I just can no longer afford the feed bill. I used to go to a smaller feed store and could buy various...
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    How about a new thread for those of us in wheelchairs?

    I just found out a couple weeks ago, that there are new all-terrain scooters with 9" wheels and very aggressive tread, as well as quick on and off "cab" ....if they came with a snowblower I would be set!
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    Making coops by renovating Ice Fishing huts

    WE SURVIVED OUR 1ST PREDATOR ATTACK! Retired Ice-fishing huts rock! Thanks to the metal sheath we didn't lose any Laying Hens, or the young meat birds. We are fairly certain these were raccoons ( though we do have Martins and Minks in our area), they managed to pull out the corner of the door...
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