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    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    What is the Name of the Book? And the article?
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    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    I have found all of your input very helpful!!!!!! EDITED to try and keep myself from getting in trouble.
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    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    It would be fine to gather eggs from a hen that is almost a year though right? Here in WA the hens egg laying is just starting to pick up. On a different note do any of you guys practice trapnesting? About half of our hens are laying and I don't have the time to sit out there all day and watch...
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    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    No you haven't, everyone is just super busy getting more chickens at the moment!
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    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    We just make ours thick enough so that there is no extra fluid.
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    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    Does he have a rose comb?
  7. jbkirk

    A Bielefelder Thread !

    Alot people just give away the males. (mostly complimentary when buying a female) When I bought my two females the breeder threw in 7 males she didn't want I think that $25 a hen is a little exorbitant unless you have good quality birds. I am planning on selling some for around $15 and will see...
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    Australorps breed Thread

    Not trying to be critical but isn't his back a little flat for the standard?
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    Australorps breed Thread

    The "mystery" chick looks like it has the color pattern of a auto sexing breed, like a Beilefelder of something similar.(I know that they don't sell Beiles but as an example)
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    The only reason that I use a lid is to keep the ever plentiful rats from helping themselves to the feed We actually found some drowned in it one time. Marshall
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    Australorps Breeding for SOP and Exhibition Thread

    Just so you all know, I'm officially lurking here now. Marshall
  12. jbkirk

    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    So, what has been going on of interest with relation to your chickens? In my flock I have a batch of chicks almost ready to hatch, and will be able to start pasturing my adults soon!
  13. jbkirk

    BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

    Ever heard of dry incubation? there is a article on here about it and it has really helped me improve my hatching!!!
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    A Bielefelder Thread !

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  15. jbkirk

    Australorps breed Thread

    Agreed. You can call a hybrid just about anything you want. Although most named ones do have specific parents there is often no way you could tell the end results apart. Marshall
  16. jbkirk

    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    What????? Ours never grow mold, and they sit around for quite a while...maybe it's because we use our finger to scrape out the extra white.
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    1 It's just Purina Layena and if you still want to know all the details of the feed they are Purina Layena Pellet Crude Protein 16% Min, Lysine .70% Min, Methionine .30% Min, Crude Fat 2.5% Min, Crude Fiber 6.5% Max, Calcium 3.25 - 4.25 %, Phosphorus .45% Min, Salt .3 - .8 %, Manganese 100...
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    No I don't provide calcium. Country Acres All Stock 14% Textured Ingredients:- Wheat Middlings, Malt Sprouts, Grain screenings, Flaked Corn, Cane molasses, Calcium Carbonate, Soybean oil, Lignin Sulfonate, Salt, Magnesium Oxide, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin A supplement, Ferrous Sulfate...
  19. jbkirk

    Essential oils and chickens

    There is a lot of folk lore out there. If your chickens free range then they probably have the ability to stomach it(ours ate all of the onions out of the garden one year) but not if they have been fed only store bought feed their whole life.
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    I use livestock feed mixed with layer, then I get the best egg production(and it's cheaper) Our local farm store actually is cheaper than the TSC.
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