Recent content by Tommie Hockett

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    Hi everyone, I am new here, and just introducing myself!

    A big howdy and welcome from north Texas
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    Need help with Rabbit basics please.

    Well I raise rabbits for meat and have been for a good while. I have never had a fixed rabbit. Having said that an unfixed.... is that a word lol. Anyway an unfixed female will get territorial so you may be better off with some males. Rabbits do very fine running around on the ground but you...
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    Texas

    So does anyone here have any experiences with the whizbang chicken plucker?
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    Texas

    @Aggiedusty yeah I'm not to worried about the day to day care and maintenance. That's the one thing about night shift that's good. I will get home just in time to move the tractors and feed and water for the day. Then when I wake up I can check on everything and my wife can take the food away at...
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    Bamboo leaves as food....

    Ok so I don't have any bamboo. However I was thinking about planting some for a dust break on my southern border. I have read several different ways of containing it. However plan to be sure before I do plant any. Having said that I never even considered it as a supplemental feed source. I...
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    Has anyone ever had anything get through 1/4 in hardware cloth?

    Next time you buy look at going bulk. Thats about the cheapest way. Atwoods normally has the 100 to 150 ft rolls for a (gulp) decently somewhat affordable.... kinda price. You might also check out a place called klubertanz they specialize in rabbit raising equipment but one of my buddies buys...
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    Texas

    @Aggiedusty yes sir I sure do. At the moment I have a fairly small flock of older buff orpingtons, however my new flock got in on Thursday 25 buff orpingtons and 25 brown sexlinks 5 transylvanian naked necks ( gonna eat them ugly critters) and I am brooding 40 production reds for my dad. I also...
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    Question about double yolks

    Thanks guys I appreciate it. I wasn't planning on doing it I was just curious and my wife and I were discussing the possiblilities. I am still in the research phase of buying an incubator. All that I know is that I dont want one of the small styrofoam ones from tsc. We are looking into one of...
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    Question about double yolks

    So first off I normally dont hatch my own eggs however we are thinking about buying an incubator this year. My wife brought up a good question. If you incubate a fertilized double yolk egg would you get twins or would one chick absorb the other yolk?
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    Texas

    @Kiki haha my bad I swear I read a post somewhere above me about someone being near Austin. @AllenK RGV that aint no joke. I hate going through the big cities or anywhere near them.
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    New here and to chickens!

    Yeah I forgot to mention that my wife is allergic to eggs and I don't much like them. So we sell them. Depending where you are. I'm sure it says but I'm new and didn't see it haha. But anyway price them anywhere between 4 and 7 dollars a dozen and they will fly out of your refrigerator and they...
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    New here and to chickens!

    Welcome to BYC!
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    Texas

    @AllenK RGV haha thats too funny. Google lies though Austin is about 3 hours away from me
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    Making new and improved chicken tractors

    Ok here are the pictures promised. basically in the crook of it where there is a small piece of pipe. It will go onto an axle stob that I will weld onto each side. Then it will roll under and lift up the rear of the tractor. The next few are of the front steering assembly. There is a piece that...
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    Chicken bloated with fluffed feathers

    We are called to be good stewards to Gods creation and you most certianly were there was nothing more you could have done. Im so sorry
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