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    wood chipper-recomendations/regrets?

    i am looking to buy a woodchipper. the current front runner has a 13 hp honda motor (basically this unit ). they have smaller motors, and china knockoffs (@ 1/2 the price), but my usual thinking, buy quality, and buy it one time. i am not sure if i need so much power. anything over 2"...
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    raising feeder for faster growth?

    let me start by saying we are doing our first batch of meat production birds, and they are scary. at one month, you can clearly see the oversized breast growth, like no other birrd i have ever raised. this might be the last, i might just go back to the slow growing duel purpose...
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    ate my favorite rooster

    RIP big red. It had to be done. i needed to get fresh blood into the flock. he served his purpose very well and expanded a flock from 10 hens to over 30 in the last 2 years. a few of his sons are in another flock, so his line will continue. i cooked him in the pressure cooker and made...
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    humidity is 52% max looking for tricks/tips

    i can not get the humidity above 52% (today is day 18). i have a 9 x 12 baking pan in the bottom of my homemade incubator which is filled with terracotta rubble (an attempt to increase surface area) and of course water. the pan covers about 35% of the floor. i just installed a rolled up rag...
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    3rd time is a charm

    i am trying the third "test" run for my home made incubator. The 1st run i had humidity problems (could not keep it high enough), and hatched 1 of 12. 2nd run i had a power outage on day 18, and the temp dropped to 85, hatched 0 for 24. hopefully the 3rd will be more successful. the...
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    budget chickens

    i just realized that my "country" flock only costs about 30 cents a day to feed. the flock has about 25 chickens! the only input we buy is corn, they get about a cup a day. the run includes our compost area, which gets waste from 3 restaurants and all of our farm waste (animal bedding...
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    are the goners?

    put eggs in the incubator last night. this afternoon, power outage for about 7 hours (temp down to 75 or so)......should i toss the eggs or do the have hope? thanks
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    incubator quetsions

    i have a few general questions regarding incubator design. 1) what is better, hatching eggs vertical (in egg cartons) or laying them on the side? does this matter with chicken breed? i have some very "country" chickens, that i would guess, have never been hatched in a incubator, would...
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    wiring quetsion

    can i wire a fan directly into a ceramic light fixture? the fan is not a PC type, but a regular old plug in fan i am pretty sure that i can. thanks
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    test run-tv bator

    the incubator is done, well close enough to do a test run. wish me luck. the temperature is fluctuating a bit more than i would like (air temp 95-102ish), but i am using a hot water thermo, and have read that it is a common issue. i might try and drill it out. it depends on how successful...
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    collection of eggs

    today when i went to collect eggs for the incubator (first run). the only eggs had a hen on them. she was not broody, just sitting on them. but the eggs were warm. they cooled down before i get them in to the incubator. will this be a problem?
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    mounting hot water thermostat

    i am wondering how people have mounted hot water thermostats in homemade incubators. i have looked at the pages here, and no details on how one is mounted. for testing/calibration purposes i used bailing wire, but i am looking for a more secure fastener. thanks
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    homemade incubator-need help

    i am in the process of building an incubator, and am having issues. first, the only thermo i could find has 5 or 6 screw ports (not 2 like most i have seen used). i think that it can be used for 110v or 220, and 10 or 20 amps. so i plugged in the light bulb into 110v and 10 amps. the...
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    stag house (tractor)

    i want to construct a chicken tractor to run behind the cows. i would like to keep all the young roosters in the tractor, so they can grow out. i was planning on having them fully free range. will they all get along? the tractor will be close (~100 meters) to the hen houses, will the young...
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    rabbit tractor

    i want to start raising meat rabbits in tractors. i would like to raise them on pasture, ideally in the paths of an existing orchard. the problem, we have weeded out all grass. the primary plant is clover. would that provide adequate diet?
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    branch fence

    it needs a few more sticks on the left side, but do you think it will keep in chicks?
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    deep litter method

    how long can i keep adding material. it has been 1.5 years now, no smell, any issues with a deep deep litter?
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    nettle spray

    has anyone used fermented nettle spray to control peach leaf curl? would it be ok to use if the tree has set fruit? i am looking for a natural solution, any success stories out there? thanks
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    drop in egg production

    i have a mixed age flock of 15 hens (13 are laying) and 5 new chicks. we were getting 5-7 eggs/day. this week, that number has been 2-3/day. as i see it, the only change has been the hatching of chicks. also, an adolescent rooster has started attracting the attention of the rooster of...
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    egg turner

    so the tv incubator is moving along. it is wired and mostly insulated. time for the egg turner. originally i planned on using the PVC turner i have seen here. now i have a different idea, wondering if it would work. put the eggs in an shallow Rubbermaid tub, three times a day put a wedge...
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