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    Random Thoughts

    Thoughts from down on the farm... Food. What did you have for dinner tonight? Hamburgers? Pork Chops? Chicken? In the past I didn’t give much thought about where the chunk of meat on my plate came from. Now we know that the protein we eat is most likely raised in a dirty, cramped industrial...
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    Around The Farm

    Just Hangin' Out on the Farm This is the new mama hen and 4 of her babies. (3/11) New home for our Silkie babies and the 6...
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    Production 2011

    5-4-11 **chicken** 5 eggs ****quail 7 eggs 5-3-11 **chicken** 6 eggs **quail** 7 eggs 5-2-11 **chicken** 7 eggs **quail** 6 eggs 5-1-11 **chicken** 6 eggs Our white silkie roo crowed for the first time, soooo cute! We gave all our mixed breeds to a lady wanting chickens, but not babies...
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    Shinyrust01s Member Page

    Hi Guys! Welcome to Down Home Farms, our little hobby farm in East Texas. We have 28 Chickens (11 babies), 35 Quail ( 25 Pharaoh, 10Texas A&M), 4 Rabbits, 1 Cat, and 5 Dogs! This is the "Hen House" we built in the spring of 2008...along with the first of our Buff Orpington babies. We started...
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    Fogging with Oxine

    Decided to go with flowmaster sprayer instead of fogger, much cheaper and just as effective, have already misted the birds a couple of times. Thanks for all the advice/feedback!
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    Fogging with Oxine

    I can't believe this, I just pulled up home depot to find out how much a new fogger would be, was telling my friend I didn't feel comfortable that I could get all the residue out of the fogger, you just confirmed what I had just decided, to buy a new fogger to only use on the chickens. Thanks...
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    Fogging with Oxine

    it's a black flag fogger and i used the stuff that came with it, not sure whats in it but it does work on mosquitos, yea, i figured i would need to flush it, the oxine is much more expensive than bleach, so maybe a few times with water & bleach, then oxine. thanks!
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    Fogging with Oxine

    I was thinking maybe of running bleach through it, think that's what I'll do, thanks!
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    Fogging with Oxine

    My question is this, I have a fogger I bought a few years ago, I use it occasionally to fog for mosquitos, anyway my question is, will running a few tanks of water through it make it safe to use to fog my chickens with oxine? has anyone else used this technique? What would you do? Thanks!
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    Premies

    One more baby hatched last night by 10pm, so far this morning no more pips, i'm hoping the remaining eggs start pipping soon. The babies are so cute, 2 black/gray and one white/ yellow.
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    Premies

    thanks for the info.....those 2 are chirping and seem to be doing fine in the brooder, i'm just ready for the others to hatch, lol like a kid on christmas morning. i have 41 texas a&m quail due to hatch thursday along with 9 black copper marans. can't wait!
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    Premies

    I bought a dozen fertilized silkie eggs from ebay, put them in the incubator the day they arrived ( I know in the future to wait a day) took them off the rails sunday, they are due tomorrow, tuesday, however, I was up at 2am this morning, and low and behold one chick was well on the way to...
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    How long from first pip to hatch?

    Thanks, think i'll try it tonight, it's only a couple of days younger than the others, i've had it under the brooder all day today, it's very strong.
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    How long from first pip to hatch?

    Thanks for the advice, yep it'd be hard to let one die, luckily not the case this time, left the little guy alone and when i got up this morning, chick had hatched and doing well, i grabbed him after a couple of hours and placed in brooder, incubator didn't lose any temp which is good since i...
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    How long from first pip to hatch?

    Hi, I had a hen go set, the babies hatched on saturday 3-12, she was setting on 19 eggs, 1 baby died, she has 8 chicks, we put the eggs left on the nest in the incubator sunday morning. 3-15 about 10pm 1 of the 10 eggs in the bator has pipped thru, but only a small hole, LG bator seemed high...
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