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    Pheasant/chicken hybrid photos

    Artificial insemination in Galliformes doesn't seem to be terribly difficult, though I've never done it. The Japanese quail / coturnix people sometimes seem to be fans of it, and there's a number of websites and YouTube videos that explain it. Also the common commercial turkey (the broad...
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    My lovely yellow goldens.

    They're beautiful! Thank you for sharing! A game poultry class? I wonder what that's like?
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    Pheasant/chicken hybrid photos

    One of the barriers to this hybrid is that pheasants and chickens speak somewhat different languages. A golden pheasant cock is displaying, and looking for signs of receptivness from the hen. Meanwhile, she doesn't understand why he's "speaking gibberish". Best guess is that time will...
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    Any Home Bakers Here?

    Coffee cake good. Coffee fudge good. (But use instant coffee to flavor it. ) Coffee bread? Maybe? But coffee in the *baker* while making the bread seems like a good idea. I prefer Irish coffee.
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    Need a little help!

    Birds are very visual, and they fly. Move the feed from the front to the back, and as long as it can be seen from the air, they'll find it.
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    Narragansett?

    So a bourbon red split to Narragansett tom (bb nN rr) (looks like a regular bourbon red tom) crossed with a Narragansett hen (bb n- RR) would produce: 25% Golden Narragansett hens (bb n- Rr) 25% Golden Narragansett toms (bb nn Rr) 25% Red Bronze? toms split to Narragansett (bb Nn Rr) 25% Red...
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    Narragansett?

    So looking at that, it's basically got a single copy of recessive red thrown into the mix. I'm pretty sure the breeder has bourbon red as well, but to get the Narragansett pattern in there, it wasn't just a one off mismatch. Thank you again for extra eyes and insight!
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    Any Home Bakers Here?

    Wow! I'm glad we don't have those around here! Seriously though, that's why some people weigh the flour instead of using measuring cups. It just eliminates one more variable (degree of compression in packing the flour).
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    Narragansett?

    Many thanks for that.
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    Any Home Bakers Here?

    If you ever decide to start writing software, LET ME KNOW! I'll hire you. With that attitude, you've already got the hard part figured out.
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    Narragansett?

    These were sold to me as day old poults, and as Narragansett. The one in the foreground has been reliably lighter colored than the others. It also seems like it's going to be a tom? But two others also look to be toms and are the same color as the others. Thoughts? Thank you!
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    Electric Fence for Quail Aviary

    Premier1 puts out a good quality electric fence. They're available in the US. I'm not sure of availability elsewhere.
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    Unwelcome visitor caught on camera

    Glad to hear that you're familiar with black bears. Please understand that those responding here, including myself, don't know your background. If the advice is overly cautious, the person that doesn't need it doesn't get hurt. All the best! And good luck with that bear! One possible...
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    Unwelcome visitor caught on camera

    He's coming back. Just as soon as he's hungry enough to justify the incursion into human turf. Hardware cloth won't slow him down. It's kind of like gift wrap to him. A solid door will slow him down for a while. If you'll hear that and be able to intervene, you can stop him. Otherwise it...
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    Any Home Bakers Here?

    Probably not the ideal time to be experimenting or learning new skills, so ideally make something that you're solidly familiar with.
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    pigeon aviary

    Put in it? Which birds? Species or breeds? Or do you mean as in a planted aviary? Which aviary to buy? I honestly don't know who even makes a commercially available plug and play aviary. For racing homers, I allowed a minimum of 12 cubic foot per bird. Ideally that's about 2 sq feet of...
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    Pigeon Talk

    Beautiful birds! That looks like a Midwest Critter Nation? How's that working out? I had one for rats and I've recently repurposed it for figuritas. I wasn't sure about long term viability though.
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    My lovely yellow goldens.

    I just got another egg from a dark throat a couple days ago. They're stretching the season a bit!
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    Mealworm raising

    Change out the food? I'm not certain I follow. The adult beetles will lay eggs right in the substrate / food.
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    Mealworm raising

    Commercially sold mealworms are treated with a grown hormone that triggers extra larval instars in order to increase size. This works, but the first generation under home cultivation typically has high die off rates. Even more upsetting is that those which compete the metamorphosis into beetles...
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