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    Turkey attacks-- what would you do?

    So, there is a town about 5 miles away that we travel to 2-4 times per month. The first incident about a month ago left us LOL. We are coming along the rural road at a safe speed in our Suburban and there is a flock of turkeys in the road. We slow down. We stop. There is a huge Tom in front of...
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    Mild Panic: FarmMaster not holding temp 5 days into incubation

    Our FarmMaster test run is not looking good:( Tonight it does not get warmer than 93 degrees. The light is on indicating that it is heating. For the past 12 days it has been holding a steady 99/100 regardless of lifting lid,or opening door. What changed? Thermometers are not wrong-- there...
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    Will white guineas get snatched more quickly?

    I traded for some guinea eggs and placed them under broody chickens. we got 12 babies, including 2 white ones. We plan to free range them with the chickens.Right now they are roosting with the hens in the main hen house at 4 weeks of age. We are concerned about the 2 white ones. Would we be...
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    Another reason to mark your broody eggs

    Our young blue orp seemed to be broody: she fluffed, she bit, she squawked, she set, she even broody-pooped! So one night we moved her to her own lil house with her own lil nest of 10 blueEE eggs and 2 marans- -all marked just because I mark them. She is setting nicely now for 3 days. DH...
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    What was I thinking?

    I bought a cabinet incubator off Craigslist. This weekend my two strong sons finally unloaded the monster from the truck and DH started a serious examination of its electrical components. I started cleaning layers of dirt from it. It's an 8 tray 1200 egg Sears Roebuck from the 50s. What in the...
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    ACV- question for a chemist

    I have been wondering. If you pulverized a fresh apple ( food processor?) and squeezed out the juice through cheesecloth, and then added it to a jug of commercial Apple Cider Vinegar, would it ferment and add the mother to the whole jug? ACV is really only fermented apple juice and it has...
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    Fox /Coyote trap experience, anyone?

    DH spotted the large coyote trap at TSC last week and now wants to buy one. We do have large raccoons in the woods next door and foxes with coyotes reported about a mile away. The regular size trap does not look large enough for the raccoons we have seen. What intrigued us is the cage within a...
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    How do we attract crows?

    Does anyone know how to attract crows? Sounds silly, I know, but we have found that crows chase hawks. We had a pair of crows around for the last few years and they seemed to have disappeared- -hunted, perhaps. Now the hawks are cruising for our chickens and we have lost some of the smaller...
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    Yolk color and breeds

    Has anyone noticed a difference in the yolk colors between breeds in a mixed flock? Our single Leghorn girl ( courtesy of granddaughter's embryology project) lays eggs which are definitely lighter in yolk yellow than our orps, RIRs, and marans even though they are all together, free ranged and...
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    One week old EEs: blue / green egglayers

    I have 4 EE chicks hatched from blue eggs. Dad is either tailed Aurcauna from blue egg or Splash Orpington. 2 are muffed. Straight run. I was dead wrong about the sexing of a previous batch so I am not even guessing! Price is for all 4. Don't want to separate. No shipping but willing to meet...
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    We shouldn't do this but...

    We are going to see a lady about a 600 egg old oak incubator on Saturday. How much damage can we do with this? Really? Last used 5 years ago and only $100. Gotta go see it at least, right?
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    Where oh where is my new doggy?

    We lost our perfect puppy Cleo in an accident last November and ever since I have been searching the internet for another dog. I admit, I am darn particular but we are sharing our LIFE with a new dog: always with us, traveling, visiting, tending chickens, you get the idea. And we don't want to...
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    Thermometers

    Last year I bought an LG and its egg turner. Both came with the little glass thermometer stapled on the card. The problem was, the chart was printed on the card and the positioning of the glass was different on each card. Call me crazy, but doesn't that mean the bottom line on each one is...
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    How low can we go?

    Honeybun just built a hatcher and we are having a really tough time holding temperature. How low a temp can those babies tolerate and still hatch? 95? 96?97? Our humidity is good, but we are having much too large (in my opinion) a range on the on/off cycle. I get scared of cooking them at...
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    Can I tell the pure from the crosses?

    This is complicated, so bear with me. I have a pure blue egg tailed Arcauna ( colored mainly black and white)Head Roo and a pure splash Orpington 2nd in command Roo in a flock of 14 hens which includes 2 blue egg EEs, 2 RIR, a splash orp, a blue orp, 2 white orps and 6 black orps. Both roos...
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    Why is it?

    Why is it that the day after I buy 5 bags of chicken feed at my local TSC to take advantage of their 10% off coupon, I get an email offering big bucks off Purina chicken feed? ARGHHHHHHH!! Anyway, thank you to the BYCer who posted about the Purina Rewards program. I will use the coupons...
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    separation anxiety....mine!

    I didn't want to do it, but I don't think we have a choice. Our wonderful splash orp "Splash" [ creative?] has been looking worse and worse after molting and being a favorite hen etc etc etc. Bare back,sparse wings, broken feathers, no tail, despite BOSS supplements she is a real mess from...
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    Purina Scratch

    We bought some Purina Scratch for the first time yesterday. Previous purchases had been scratch compiled from our local mills or our own combination of 1/3 oats/ 1/3 wheat and 1/3 corn with a very very generous addition of sunflower seeds. We were shocked at the amount of corn in the Purina...
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    How do we manage this?

    Here's our dilemma: We want to have fertile eggs to hatch this spring-- about March would be great. We have 3 breeds to propagate: blue -egged EEs, Orps and FBCMs Current housing groups are all the hens cohabitating happily with head roo Barney the blue-egg breeder and spring rooster Oliver the...
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    Is the Black Princess a Prince?

    We have two 6-month old black orpingtons from Jody & Charlie's eggs. One we thought was a hen and named her the Black Princess. She was a victim of a very bad dog/fox/coyote attack on its back 2 months ago and lost ALL her tail feathers. Even now, s/he looks like she is tail-less! S/he is in a...
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