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    New Coop: Extreme Cold Automatic Door and other 40 below zero suggestions?

    Hen gear has heating mats now available for their nest boxes. Not sure if they are any different from seed starting mats though.
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    Dying silkie chicks

    Is brooding silkies different from other chicks? We are on our third year with chickens and very little loss in the past (usually within a day of shipment), but this year we have lost 2 out of 10 self blue silkies. They cost me a pretty penny, so I'd like to figure out what's going on with...
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    Food Cyclist chicken tractor

    Has anyone made one? Was it as good as it looks? Thanks!
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    Predator proof a Chicken Tractor??

    This was our first year with chickens and built our meaties a 12'x12' hoop tractor. Worked great, except it was too dang heavy to move! We have a lot of predator pressure here, large hawks that keep an eye on our enclosed flocks, bears, wolves, coyote, fox, lynx, coons, skunks and weasels are...
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    Wheat free feed recipe?

    Thanks for the advice. No grit per se, but we use sand as litter in the coop. I'll try to source white wheat instead of red and see if they like it better.
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    Wheat free feed recipe?

    I have been making a whole grain feed for my layers, but they eat everything but the wheat. I'd like to adjust the recipe to reduce or eliminate the wheat, but what should I replace it with? Recipe is: 4 part rye 9 part Barley 9 part Oats 9 part red wheat 4 part black oiled sunflower...
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    How Much Do Your Birds Sell For?

    Price up here North of MN border is $3.75 a pound, course I buy black market birds that aren't processed at an abattoir, since our local one refuses to get the license to do so.
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    Jumbo Broiler

    My source for Cornish X says 7+ pounds in 8 weeks* *= 75% of live weight for dressed weight on average. I think that would just about work out to what you're seeing.
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    Really small Cornish X at 8 weeks

    I should add, we ferment the feed as well. We read lots of good things about it, but it does make it hard to provide enough feed for 12 hours when we are away for 9 at work. Since they are growing slower, do you think that their hearts and legs might be better suited to their body size and we...
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    Really small Cornish X at 8 weeks

    300 pounds of chick starter (that also fed 16 barred rocks, same age) but the barred rocks were getting some 18% homemade feed as well over the past two weeks. I haven't kept track of how much I've made, just refill the pail when it needs it. Grit once or twice a week. Occassional table...
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    Really small Cornish X at 8 weeks

    Yes, they are definitely Cornish rock x, ordered directly from the poultry supplier. They do go bananas when I go in, and feed like crazy for 5 minutes or so, eat about half, then pick away at the rest over the next hour. I'll supplement the feed with something high protein, since 20% is the...
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    Really small Cornish X at 8 weeks

    It's our first year. We started with 29 cornish X and lost one the first night to shipping stress. Everyone has seemed healthy and we are now at 8 weeks. We were feeding as much feed as they could eat in 20 minutes after the second week, twice daily. They seemed small (for what the hatchery...
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