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    Cold weather

    If you gotta do something, please consider something like this rather than a lamp, plugged into one of these, of course. I was considering making something similar using a PVC pipe wrapped in something grippy (golf club tape maybe, or a dip in DragonSkin silicone?), filled with sand, and having...
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    Cold weather

    Wholeheartedly disputed (just sayin'): https://www.pinterest.com/TheChicknChick/heat-lamp-fires/ Also, -3 F or Celsius? It makes a difference. I've 5 in a smaller-ish coop, temps down to -5F on occasion with no heat - just windproof and cozy.
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    friend saw this loose chicken--what breed is it?

    I'm not qualified to say for sure, but I'm going to say it is a Blue Black Splash English Orpington with wonderfully striking coloring.
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    Anybody has experience with idealpoultry.com ?

    :th OK, then all I can suggest is that somehow the entries in the backend database got the BO(d) and BO(c) mixed up or entered incorrectly. Imagine some poor sap gets a new job doing data entry... BO is BO as far as I know. Or shopping cart validator is doing a db search by keyword and...
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    Anybody has experience with idealpoultry.com ?

    I'm not the the quickest rooster in the coop, but I only see *15* ducks?? Chickens (10 total): 5 Golden/White Layer Hybrids, all girls 5 Buff Orpington, 1 boy 4 girls Ducks (15 total): 5 Indian Runners, 2 boys 3 girls 5 Magpie Ducks 1 boy 4 girls 5 Ancona Ducks, all girls
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    Is there a way to get rid of a particular ad?

    I usually run many, Ubuntu in the Windows linux emulation layer to compile openWRT from source, a flavor of Debian on my rPi, VMs with varieties of CentOS, Fedora depending on need/want of the day/week. I was Sr. Lab Manager for a CyberSec R&D co. where I manged the RPM repos as well as...
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    Chickens not drinking outside.

    Indeed they do. When mine got their first taste (pun intended) of snow, they were rightly confused. Once I got em kinda OK with walking in shoveled areas, I held out a clump of snow - since it was in my hand, they ate it. Eventually they caught on that it's just a different kind of water. Now...
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    Rooster toe/nail injury (care advice)-nonemergent

    yuppers. Just have to be sure to not have the pad 'stubbing' against the quick, but gently nestled in it (securely). Personally, my knuckles are magnets to all things hard and jaggy, so I have the knuckle bandages on hand in bulk.
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    Rooster toe/nail injury (care advice)-nonemergent

    Step 1: Visit Amazon/walgreens/etc Step 2: Buy knuckle bangades Step 3: toe tip goes in center of square pad, fold over and wrap securely using the long sticky 'laces' like you would tie a roman sandal.
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    Rooster toe/nail injury (care advice)-nonemergent

    I had a BO chick lose a toenail somehow in the brooder. Cornstarch to stop the bleeding. BluKote (2 or 3 dabs, letting dry between), knuckle-bandage, didn't slow her down a bit.
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    Each mealworm weighs about 100 to 110 milligrams (avg), so approx 9k-10k per kg without bedding/feed/water.
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    No difference between pasture raised chicken eggs and caged chicken eggs.

    Lol, depends on which side of the market you're on I guess. After all, don't "Happy Cows Come From California (tm)" ? Here's a link to an article Funny tho, I had to read carefully to catch that they were feeding the cows seratonin to achieve this affect. So, as long as your animal is happy...
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    Selective breeding

    A lot of this is above my paygrade, but the biologists over in the AgriDomes have this as a suggested link on the local Ares-Net : Poultry Genetics for Small and Backyard Flocks
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    Glad I'm not the only one. You don't sift on the stovetop anymore do ya? yeah, me either. One mealworm in the gravy at thanksgiving and ya NEVER hear the end of it. Was good gravy tho. Even wife admitted it .
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    For the shippable product / packaging I use proprietary solutions which are working for me (so far, but still early). For the bulk, I use thinly sliced potato or apple, carrot. Just have to check it bore often. Also if very humid, maybe looks into cans of desiccant or a good/cheap electric...
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    I buy in quantities of 10,000 and just dump em in a plastic bin with grower/finisher crumbles, then in a few weeks (months if it is cold) pick out any beetles and toss into breeder drawer, sift out some worms for packaging or treats, check water supply. pick out some pupae to spread around some...
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    FWIW, I got bored one day, worked out some pricing models which included profitability when reselling vs. farming, registered a business and associated trademarks, and came up with this (prototypes shown, thought the final product packaging doesn't drift far: $5 bag includes: 100 mealworms (or...
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    Question reg. mealworm farming

    Let it sit for a few weeks. to let the worms grow. After they are larvae, but before they are beetlses, sift, toss it straight into your garden, or into compost pile.
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    Is there a way to get rid of a particular ad?

    Indeed. There's not a lot to do out here on Mars, and even less that's funny. Except it was taco night last night (we like it spicy!!), and it's Sam's turn to go out in the suit to clean off the solar panels this morning.
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    Is there a way to get rid of a particular ad?

    lol, Yeah, that's likely to be less frustrating than the two days it took me to cross-compile that openWRT stuff (every binary for every command for the OS, the kernel itself and various libraries). Kinda chicken-sh... erm... scared to install my custom compiled version and risk borking /...
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