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    Please Help! Ive tried everything!

    I think that is instinctive behavior because small chicks are most in danger from birds of prey coming down from the sky. I wouldn't worry about it. By the time they mature and are too large for most prey birds, they will be following you around looking for food from you.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    ANy suggestions to help the coating on my marans eggs. I suspect dietary deficiency but they are fed good layer food plus a variety of whole grains,alfalfa, and BOSS. The coating on many eggs is non-existent along with thin shells. Do the marans require a higher protein level than normal (...
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    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    how accurate would you think a 60 yr old original mercury thermometer is in the Farm Master 1200 we have. Had loads of bad hatches last year even though we ran 3 different digitals inside it. This year I am thinking just use the original thermometer and it's holding temp right at the arrow...
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    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    In our 1200 egg farm master, I used a large floor tile to fit across the water pan area, then used the plastic drawer dividers fit in to cover the area. They are 1 1/2 inches deep and sometimes have to fill hem daily to get the humidity up at lockdown.
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    Tethered Guinea

    If you have a broody hen, let her hatch the keets and raise them. They will think they are chickens and relate more to the chicken flock and be less likely to roam.
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    Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

    Good luck. IMHO, the main places to mess up are first in the dunking: dunk up and down and test feather pulling. It's easy to misjudge the timing here and in only doing one, you are likely to get it wrong. Don't worry about it- if it's too long and tears the skin you can always skin him. I...
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    Processing Day Support Group ~ HELP us through the Emotions PLEASE!

    I Haven't been around here much the past months, but DH is starting to ask when we are sending the batch of late March roos to process in Frystown. I have no freezer room so they need to wait and we need to pick out a flock replacement roo from the bunch. Future SIL is raising a flock of 25...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    I like using Ivomec pour-on for worming: a few drops per chicken. I don't worry about withdrawal time because they use wormers in cancer treatments in humans in combinations with other drugs and by the time it goes through the hen's system it's been refined further. Of course, we don't sell our...
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    Guinea Eggs: How many days incubation?

    update: It was near dark and DD stopped by so I lifted the cover where the hen was nesting. Well, that was the decision: 3/4 the eggs were not under her. I grabbed a nearby container and scooped them up, leaving her 9 eggs. Replaced the cover and she scooted under it before we turned around...
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    Guinea Eggs: How many days incubation?

    hi PeepsCA, I'd like some advice. I was going to let our white guinea hen brood where she hid it, (fairly safe spot close to house)but Dh said her shelter slid off today and he saw the nest. Its FULL of eggs-- he thinks 30-40. A month ago we found the first nest and incubated 42, ended up with...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    @Chad & Ray... pics of our roos posted in the Black Copper Marans discussion thread for critique.
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I hope these are the same two roos DH was holding ( We have 13 in the pen so you understand the confusion.) Ignore any with a yellow tag: we have already nixed that one. Pink tags mean =possible keepers. The heavier one of these roos holds his tail a bit straighter up and I fear it is too...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Dh and I are looking for the best roos to keep. These are April hatch and two of th top contenders by our eyes. Please critique and help us decide. And yes, DH was wondering why I was chuckling while I snapped the pics.
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    Guineas and Dogs

    Totally depends upon the dog. We have a Black Russian Terrier, which is a guard dog, but very very mellow and intelligent. She ignores the guineas because ( i think) she realizes they are brainless. She guards the chickens and even the chicks. We have a resident wild pheasant right now and the...
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    wierd,strange,unusal and just down right wrong names for Kids.

    LOL reading this thread! I tried so hard to give my girls nice but different names: Lynne then named her daughter Ann -- so people wouldn't always forget the E Andrea became Dreya in high school and no one remembers her real name, and Marisa ( one s) is now known as Misa instead of the Isa...
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