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    My RIR rooster has a swollen foot

    My RIR rooster has a swollen foot. I bought him last fall as a mature rooster and he came out of a pen of mature breding roosters. At first I thought he had gotten hurt in a fight. He seemed to do alright, I bred him to several RIWs and RIRs, hatched out chicks. Over the winter his foot is...
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    Broody Hen

    I have a hen who has been sitting for a month now. No eggs under her. I understand that she is broody, wants to raise some chicks, but for this long??? Does anyone know of a cure for broody hens. I have about four that are wanting to sit now. HELP!!!
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    WHEN ARE TURKEYS READY TO BUTCHER

    I have four turkeys I purchased at the elevator in April, two BB and twoBW. They are about three months old and pretty big! Does age have anything to do with the toughness? I thought I read somewhere that they should be about 20 weeks old before butchering. Any help is greatly appreciated:)
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    Fryers

    I have about 50 slow broilers which I intend to butcher at ten weeks. The problem is I also have regular roosters, Doms, Delewares, RIR, dual purpose birds, that I want to butcher at the same time. As you can imagine they are about half the size.Just how old are you suppose to let your birds get...
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    It's All Over. Inbreeding????

    Chicks Hatched With Guts Out HELP! Thanks to all that responded. Humidity seems to have been my biggest problem, I got caught up with the air space and didn't pay enough attention to the humidity. Don't know where I got the idea but I thought too much humidity would drown them, go figure. For...
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    Born with guts out HELP

    Chicks are hatching with their guts out. How do you control humidity, how do you raise and lower it. Dissapointed in Michigan
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    Turkeys HELP

    This year I picked up four turkeys at the local elevator, two white, two bronze. I brooded them in the kitchen in a lage plastic tub for about a week and then in the garage for another three, then I turned them out in a fenced area with a little coop I built. They seem to be thriving, Now here...
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    New Chicks

    This is a FYI I live in Davison Michigan and recently recieved several orders of chicks. I got forty from Murray McMurray two extras and a free rare chick, 120 from Welp, 1 extra for every 25 broilers and one extra for every seperate breed, 75 from Ideal, no extras, two dead in order fivemore...
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