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    Hydrogen Peroxide on eggs?

    I’ve tried it on 3 or 4 hatchings. I can’t say it’s increased or decreased hatching percentage. I’ll wash dirty eggs in clean water. I just use my hands and as gently as possible I dry them with a clean towel. It’s got to help some those mud covered eggs ain’t hatching so whatever hatches and a...
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    Hens scratching all the hay out of nest boxes. Any help?

    I’ve decided it’s so hit and miss that I just reline the ones that kick it out. No rhyme or reason why certain ones do it. I’ve got over a hundred single mating pens like the one in the pic and something less than ten are going to do it no matter what. My flooring job is just about done in the...
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    Hens scratching all the hay out of nest boxes. Any help?

    Problem is it’s several hens I picked up some different bedding material. It’s bigger chips of wood. Not as fine as I’ve tried before. I also picked up a few milk crates. I have pens that are fully protected from the weather. I’m probably try to move the hens that are doing it into some of those...
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    Hens scratching all the hay out of nest boxes. Any help?

    This is what I’m using mostly. Just like I’ve done for years. I can put the bucket like it is in the pic and I guess the bottom is 6-8” from the bottom edge of the hole. With some hens I put it right side up to make it easier for new chicks to get out and back in the bucket. Anyway have at it.
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    Hens scratching all the hay out of nest boxes. Any help?

    My hay seems ok. It’s clean. Of fresh but not moldy. I have tried putting a kind of wadded up small towel I. The bucket but she drug it out of the bucket I. A couple of days. I do like the idea of carpet stapled to the bottom. I may try stapling a small towel in. I think if it’s not stapled...
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    Hens scratching all the hay out of nest boxes. Any help?

    I’m still working on it but so far no luck. I’ll try to get a pic maybe somebody can spot the problem. I’ve raised these things since the 60s. Maybe someday I’ll figure them out. Thanks for the ideas guys.
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    Hens scratching all the hay out of nest boxes. Any help?

    I’ve tried the wood chips and I cut the hole probably 6” from the bottom to contain the bedding. But thanks for the ideas but keep em coming!
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    Hens scratching all the hay out of nest boxes. Any help?

    Game hens. I normally cut a hole in a clean 5 gallon bucket for my single mating pens. Nearly all the hens scratch the hay out of the buckets. Anybody got any helpful experience or advice? I’ve raised these birds for probably 50 years and don’t remember it being this bad before the last couple...
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    Any idea what caused this weird egg?

    It’s probably the first or last egg of a clutch Nothing to worry about
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    Living with a paralyzed chicken

    A little cider vinegar will do good things to her Intestional track.
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    Show Off Your Games!

    This is a blue mug stag I think. He’s from my snake line. He was one of seven eggs I got out of the belly of a big snake I caught in a nest. I killed the snake cut it open got the eggs washed them off and incubated them and all seven hatched. This is the only one I’ve seen with their toe mark...
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    Show Off Your Games!

    A few stags I had to pen. Wish they could have free ranged longer but, they can’t
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    Show Off Your Games!

    It’s been sunny here. With a thunderstorm every couple of hours. I’ve been on a clean up project in the yard. I’ve got to get three pens out of the pasture and try to straighten them up enough to use. There’s 16 pens that were damaged. I’d like to get a dozen of those back useable. Removing big...
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    American Gamefowl

    Thanks. Lots of carnage here. Still finding damage around the place and lots of birds unaccounted for. Still coulda been lots worse. There’s plenty of folks that had it worse than me. I’ll pick it all up and build or buy new pens. Then the hard part figuring out what broodfowl I still have and...
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    American Gamefowl

    I had some pens blow over and a big oak blew down in the yard yesterday in the hurricane Then this morning a tornado touched down in my yard. Blew more big trees down blew a bunch of pens over. Big heavy pens. A tree blew down onto some brood fowl pens and killed a bunch of brood fowl. Lots of...
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