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  1. Righteous Rstr

    ISO Wisdom......2 part question. 1.This season is my 3rd ever incubating chicken eggs. 35yrs of natu

    That being said 4 yrs ago my totally free rangers (100%) just add water birds were decimated by the one predator I won't dispatch, Cuban renters. My flock was + or - 85-100 birds who slept in trees, foraged their own feed on 35 acres and best of all set on and hatched the eggs in crude connected...
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    Had a mysterious illness last season that devastated in excess of 150 birds. Contacted FL Dept. of A

    Of course after the girls in haz-mat gear took blood and saliva samples it took them 5 weeks to tell me that ! What they did advise was to innoculate peeps BEFORE I introduce them into my 4 stage brooder. The innoculation was an pump spray in the face just prior to dipping their beeks in water...
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    Losing 1-7 birds a day in Daytona, ANY SUGGESTIONS ARE MOST WELCOME!!!!

    Of late my local feed store has stopped selling Manna-Pro starter crumble. I can't help but wonder as I had an almost non-existent death rate before . I've had a 200+ bird avg this season thanks to BYC "dry method" of hatch ing .I've been told that I should have innoculated at day 2. Does anyone...
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    So excited, first time using igloo cooler for day 18 lockdown !

    Had tremendous increase last season using "dry method" in huge 300+ egg bator. Obviously having only 9-12 eggs a day my hatch dates were staggered at best. This attempt lacked the final lock down bator even so my hatch rates tripled ! Now I'm tweaking an igloo cooler to stabilize temp and...
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    Had great results last season with dry method in a 300+ egg bator! This year I,m building a finish b

    My commercial rig has 3 tray that tip every 8 hrs ,had to fabricate 4 egg cradles. Now as daily duties caused me to open that bator at least twice a day causing a 15 degree temp drop.Took about twenty minutes to recover, hygrometer is inside so ? My question is actually a request for input...
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    $20 PULLET STARTER COOP BUILT ONTO OLD PICK UP BED LINER "FUNCTION BEFORE FASHION".

    Laugh it up. When my flock was 100% free ranging and self feeding I had it made and didn't even know it For me anyway free rangers had a 20% survival rate at six months. Not much I could do about it. Mama would appear one day with a dozen or so shiny new peepers ! About the only help that could...
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    It seems that I've been re-zoned-mixed density housing, however as I've been grandfathered in as my

    This really gets me as usual empty promises were given, the M.O. of Volusia co. FL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if they try to enforce this, God help them ! I was crushed 5 yrs ago, my poultry provide edible protein and eggs. Normally I would sell meat and eggs as surplus to my needs. For you newbies...
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    CORN SNAKE #4 "NO LUMPS" ! (GRAPHIC)

    The first three ate on average 7 per helping .Had this guy been venomous it could have been taken live and given to milkers to save lives. These are the ones who have consistently decimated HUNDREDS of peeps and eggs over the years. Does anyone have a set of tongs they don't need ? I've got them...
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    As I let my many neighbors to the East know thars a bear about they have taken as many precautions

    East of me is a giant subdivision, 5-15 acre parcels loaded with all kinds of critters including an alligator farm and every kind of aviary site you can shake a stick at ! No kiddin my best friend lives on "Chicken Farm Road" the equine populace far exceed the Fowl census but the word is OUT. A...
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    Boy you guys are a tough crowd! Not a single ovation for Lil BILL .

    He's been sulking all day!! RR
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    LIL' BILL GOT AN OFFICIAL STATE OF FLORIDA PAWSHAKE FROM THE BIOLOGIST !! AND A NICE GREASY FAT HAM

    Get this! I called fish and game 2p yesterday, expressed my concern about being the only food source for 2 sq.miles. 10a this morning a pleasant FL.F&G "bear cop"shows up to assess the situation . Takes a real good look around 18 acres or so, returns to the back porch and says your pups a keeper...
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    OKAY KIDS, APPARENTLY BLACK BEARS ARE BREEDING IN FL, I WAS INFORMED THIS MORNING A 350 LBS BEAR RAN

    The fish cops said don't worry they only eat vegetation or trash, I asked if they eat my livestock "what can I DO OR NOT DO" ? It looks like the dog got beat up a little,so that's out. I CAN fire warning shots if he is killing my stock, but no kill shots? A bear will walk right through my coop...
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    Have two Geese that look like giant Pekin ducks ,

    I'm a bit embarrassed after having so many and totally forgot this species. If you know please help me out .RR
  14. Righteous Rstr

    Central FL-Chinese geese prefer 5-9 moth males. Swap for tame mating pair of Whites?

    Have two white geese that look very much like giant Pekin ducks. They are mated and successfully hatched eggs. They will make great pets, I need miserable mean Chinese geese to alert me and the dog of trouble. Best case is someone local prefer that over all, no cash even swap. If you want to...
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    Piglett has an awesome prodedure for hatching box design, a 100 watt heat lamp on a dimmer switch!!

    As I have not begun my finishing hatcher constuction yet, I wonder why an huge igloo cooler would need a thermoelectric switch if the heat were set by a variable heat switch ??? A hatcher such as this would be placed indoors somewhere as it is basically stink proof .Please confirm or deny my...
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    I was wondering why 6/2 eggs popped at day 19 and twenty 5 total for now this is my hatcher-lock dow

    COULD THE POSTURE OF THE EGG BE WRONG??NOT A SINGLE PIP JUST STRIKES ME ODD.THE AIR BUBBLES ARE BIG 78%H AND 99-100 DEGREES. THIS RACK IS STATIONARY AT THE BOTTOM HEAT IS VARIED IN 3 SPOTS.
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    SUDDEN DROP IN EGG PRODUCTION,FL.

    My girls are spoiled for sure they get layer pellets daily,about two scoops for 17 big hens. Over the last ten days egg production has dwindled to one in two days! I have 140 eggs in the bator but my goal is to hatch and raise at least 75 by September. A friend suggested a two day stay in a...
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    Here is a bit of trivia, does anybody know why Opossums decapitate birds and don;t eat them??

    I have profoundly hated these nasty critters based on the assumption they kill chickens for sport! Justifying shooting them on sight. Recently a friend explained the M.O.behind what we considered to be murder. Alligators and opossums share a specific trait, they both kill their prey only to...
  19. Righteous Rstr

    READ "DRY METHOD" AND ADAPTED IT FOR MY HUGE 300 EGG BATOR, RESULTS AMAZING !!

    All the info on this topic was related to small hobby bators. Read it through a few times really helped me to understand the hatching process .My big concern was/is that its not feasible in huge commercial rigs with eggs being added daily. The various dates need different humidity and earlier...
  20. Righteous Rstr

    Old school tried and true solutions to most threats to your flock. Cheap and easy!

    The following may disturb the faint of heart STOP HERE. Now as the rest have real life issues to solve,these solutions are 100% time tested.The day you wake to decapitated birds an Opossum is the culprit, Raccoons will remove the bird and eat it near water if possible.They much like snakes...
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