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    Mobile tractor plans

    It's been working out well other than one security breach which was my fault. I never use chicken wire but only the back side had it because I ran out of hardware cloth and something got in and killed 3 chickens and 2 turkeys. Lesson learned. I move it every few days. Turning it a full 180 is a...
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    The American Bresse...

    Interesting OK. I wonder if I could just sous vide the whole thing. 145 for 4 hours then crisp skin under broiler. That's how i do plain breasts and they're the juiciest breasts ever. For just breasts I just to 140 for 1+ hours
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    The American Bresse...

    3-4 hours? I would assume such a long time would make it tough. I used my Romertopf pot bc chickens are always the best in that thing. I had planned to smoke it but after feeling the meat decided against it
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    The American Bresse...

    i just butchered 5 of my Bresse birds at 19 weeks old. Roasted one yesterday and the meat was a bit tough. It rested in the fridge for 4 days so rigor mortis should have passed. I didn't do a cold soak or salt soak, maybe that factored into it. I just did heat shrink bags right after butchering.
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    Poults just won't live!

    i picked up four from a local lady who hatches from her turkeys. 2 spanish black and 2 blue slate. so far they're 5 days old. longer than the others ever made it. they're on gamebird starter and a water trough with grit on the bottom. looking good. i ended up separating them from my chicks...
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    Poults just won't live!

    it ended up dying. It was gasping in my hands and i was trying to use a syringe to give it more water and yolk. just no will to thrive, any of them. so annoying. a local breeder has some for me next week. No more mailed turkeys! that's 0/4
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    Poults just won't live!

    i should add i contacted some local breeders and they said the feed store ones are difficult bc they are mailed in and usually arrive 2-3 days without food/water. They suggested using a syringe to force egg yolk in their mouths but i can't do it one handed. darn thing doesn't want to open its...
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    Poults just won't live!

    it's a large brooder with heat in the corner. the older chicks stay on the other side. I have never had various ages before. I'm only doing this because I added 6 varieties of chicks and they were available and different times from the store so i kept getting 1 or 2 at a time, weeks apart...
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    Poults just won't live!

    oh i asked for gamebird and she directed me to that.
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    Poults just won't live!

    there is grit in the brooder, but none of them really go for it
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    Poults just won't live!

    It has 30%, the feed store told me to use that. Otherwise i have broiler feed too. the brooder has a mix of 1 day, 1 week, 2 week, 4 week chicks (one of each because various breeds). They didn't have gamebird starter. water is warm, under the lamp also food shouldn't be the thing killing them...
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    Poults just won't live!

    I got two poults thursday morning from the feed store. Tossed them in the brooder with my chicks (various ages 1 day to 4 weeks). Thursday evening, one's dead. Friday morning, the other's dead. Feed store says they'll let me bring them back. Got two more friday evening. Now saturday evening...
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    Mobile tractor plans

    ok re-design. Used the Vevor greenhouse kit which served as the shell. Fastened cedar decking to make a bottom frame, hardware cloth all over, suscovish style but not an A frame with conduit. Much more manageable. Still able to keep food and water totes in there. In the winter I'll wrap another...
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    Mobile tractor plans

    I got the coop in the back now, took me over an hour to get it from the driveway to the backyard because the unlevel ground caused the mild 4" lift to get stuck at times. The wooden hoop is still too heavy. I'm just gonna do an open tractor design like Suscovich but I'm not bending conduit so i...
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    Mobile tractor plans

    I swear I'm gonna lose my mind. first the conduit failed sop i rebuilt it out of cedar. It is solid. Its 7x10 now, so slightly smaller. I cannot for the life of me figure out a retractable wheel option. I've done: -cantilever wheel design - fail -superstrut channels to add vertical rigidity to...
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