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    Muscovy - How long to reach market weights

    I am looking to add Muscovy ducks to my enterprise and I have been having issues finding info on them. I am looking for Feed to Weight Conversions How long to get to market weight Best age to process for ease. (like Pekings they say 7 weeks, 12 weeks and then one other time) The hardest...
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    Guard Geese... Posted In another thread

    I am looking at some methods to protect my laying flow while in the field. Mainly from overhead predators. In the field I have to keep my layers I can't keep a dog out there so I have been keeping my birds in tractors but would like to let them run free within my electric netting and let them...
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    Guard Geese

    I am looking at some methods to protect my laying flow while in the field. Mainly from overhead predators. In the copule acres I have to keep my layers I can't keep a dog out there so I have been keeping my birds in tractors but would like to let them run free within my netting and let them...
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    Brunty and Others

    I know Brunty started raising pigs a while back and doing some produce. I also know he used his pigs as tillers to start some garden plots. I just got a grant for a hoop house and I have a spot for it about an acre. The hoop house is 26 x 72 and thought about getting few pigs to till up the...
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    Naked Necks as a meat bird

    I raised these one year. I like the flavor but at 16 weeks they only dressed out at 3 lbs. And I raised all cockerls. I loved to look at them as they were all different colors. I would raise these again possibly for our own use but never for sales again. And the first batch was from S &...
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    Feed Calculator

    I seem to be having problems downloading the xls file from teh original post. Could someone send to me at [email protected] I am trying to make my own feed and would like to know where my protein level is at with my broiler mix. Thanks
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    Do any egg sellers grade their eggs for selling to stores, etc.

    Contray, Just so happens that when a few restaurants started purchasing from me at farmers markets that was they number they were taking and I based off of that. Plus, there are a few retail stores around here that purchase and re-sell at our retail rate. So I try to work with them as well.
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    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    So I have tried to read through all of this. But I have my mill grind all of my feed really find for my layers and broilers. So more like a powder. I would like to try this with my birds that are in the brooder. My recipe for my broilers is as follows below. Can I just take this by the...
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    Fencing....

    I know this is not meat bird related but thought I would share. I have always used poultry netting for my goats that I raise. But this year I have been fixing most of my nets that are 2 - 4 years old. Mice eating them, snags and tangling tears, new posts, etc. Plus on occasion I will come...
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    Do any egg sellers grade their eggs for selling to stores, etc.

    I label and sell my eggs as Washed / Ungradred Pastured Raised Eggs. To restaurants that order 20+ dzn per order I sell for $2.40 a dzn. All Retail sales are $4 dzn.
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    1 New Meat Brooder Done, 3 to Go

    I had most of this stuff laying around from old projects. Materials 24 - 2 x 4 or 2 x 2 your choice 3 sheets of 4 x 8 - 1/2 ply or something similar for outdoor use 2 sheets of green house glass 4 x 8 or you can use ply. I used these cuz...
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    1 New Meat Brooder Done, 3 to Go

    I am sure of the protien. I have been using the same mix for the last 4 years. And at 8 weeks they dress out with avg of 5# per bird.
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    1 New Meat Brooder Done, 3 to Go

    I feed a 20% feed from start to finish custom milled at my Mill. And that is 3 lbs dressed in 6 weeks. High in there today was 101 and after I took side off to the left in this image temp hovered at about 93 for the day with a strong warm breeze wrapping around the house Here are the first...
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    1 New Meat Brooder Done, 3 to Go

    Also, I must say I have only had that many in a brooder one time and worked out fine. I normally keep about 150 per brooder at a crack and I normally have one empty every 4 week. I get 150 birds a week for 3 weeks every month Mid April through July, nothing in August because of heat and then...
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    1 New Meat Brooder Done, 3 to Go

    The side that has the board up comes off just as the opposite side. It get full shade all day long with it being on the north side of the house. Plus local cats have been shot by me at my house as they have tried 2 times to go through my electric netting for my personal flock of layers. So...
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    1 New Meat Brooder Done, 3 to Go

    should easily hold 200-250 for about 3-3.5 weeks
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    Chickens and Goats....

    My charger for the fence is a 3 joule on 2 poultry nets. Way more then enough juice. So if any one has made moveable pens that they move with there trucks or 4 wheelers I would like to see them. This is pilot and would like to add more next year. As these are already sold.
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    1 New Meat Brooder Done, 3 to Go

    Well I moved my brooders outside instead of my garages and shed. Needed the space. So I built one so far and 3 more to go. It is 8 x 8 x 2 all the way around and 4 at the peak. Sides pull off as you will see from one photo showing the inside. I used green house glass from menards as doors...
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