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    Winterizing Nipple Waterers? UPDATE Really? No One Knows?

    My husband built a waterer with a recirculating pump, it has one rather long pvc pipe with around 30 nipples in it, and then it recirculates back into the main trash can. It's not insulated. The recirculated line kept the trash can from freezing, and the pipes are not frozen, but all the...
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    Amputated a chicken's leg today

    I am gonna try this with my chick. She is good spirited, and her leg is all bent crazy and flopping around getting caught on things. The foot itself is cold, and withered and looks dead. I don't know if she'll make it, but it's really a last attempt before I cull her. I have a LOT of little...
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    Baby chick not doing well

    Hmm, you might be right, I have been keeping an eye on her. This round of chicks I ordered 300, and I'd say about 20 of them were malformed in some fashion, the worst few had badly misshaped jaws and died within a month. There are several crippled, I tried to boot as many of them as I could...
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    Baby chick not doing well

    I have a chick with a screwed up leg. It's bent to the side, and generally useless. She walks on her elbow on that side. The foot is withered. My bigger problem is, that she is half the size of the other chicks. I do not think she is able to compete for food well. I could cull her, but...
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    Egg Washing Methods.

    Hi! I'm new here. I'm just trying to figure out how to get my eggs washed, I've got enough birds to do a couple dozen eggs per day (as soon as they all start laying.) I've been reading up on the laws, and I've got a guy who wants to sell my eggs in his store. I guess in Colorado that means I...
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