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    Mail Order Birds

    Does anyone know any good winter-time delivery hatcheries? I am interested in rebuilding my flock possibly with new breeds or species but Americaunas and Orpingtons/Australorps worked so well for me. Open to suggestions!
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    Starting from scratch

    Hi! I've been traveling for school and family and had to sell off my flock, I do still have the coops, though. I was gifted (to put it kindly) my first chickens and moved on to ducks having realized my hobby could be slightly more profitable. So I was getting my chicks with my ducklings in the...
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    yikes

    hatched a chick with messed up feet and some body parts hanging out its cloaca. I forget if this means temp. was too high or low?
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    numbers game

    How much do birds cost outside of initial price plus food? rather, how much are they worth at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months? From what I've seen people will pay $4 for a day old chick. now they only eat maybe a dollar's worth of food in the first month (conservatively). does this make $5 a...
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    Duck food volume per

    How much do white Pekin ducks eat in the first 3 months (12 weeks)? tryin to do some figurin' and I settled on 10 ducks eat 20lb. in 3 months? that sound about right?
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    Can rabbits coexist with poultry?

    I wonder if it is possible to put them in the same housing at least for a short while untill I get proper shelter or would problems occur? Orpingtons are pretty nice birds and so are my Pekin ducks. Looking to integrate large-ish meat rabbits (Flemish or Chinchilla) for possibly a one...
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    Depth of Biosecurity

    I was at Hannaford's (chain grocery store) and I saw a poster looking for farmer's to accept "food waste". Old produce and bread too I think is what this means. I was wondering if anyone else had this type of agreement now or in the past or at least knew if it was a good idea. Anyone in the...
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    dressing and such

    Any auto pluckers out there worth getting for small scale (100 birds) operation? mostly concerned with $ i suppose, I only really know they exist from my poultry raising book. :)
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    chickens n pigs

    Can a chicken pass a deadly disease on to a year old sow potbelly pig?
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    Pekin Duck Broiler Feeding

    Just bought 10 American Pekin ducks from local Tractor Supply on the cheap because they were "too big". I've had ducks before but they were for eggs, now I would like to know the best way to feed them for butchering them around the time I graduate in a little under two months.
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    uh-oh in infant chick

    I hatched some chicks and one has crooked feet....... (maybe from low temp/stuck in shell too long from low humidity?) it doesn't quite look like it could walk for awhile,/ approx. 2-3 days old, it's toes are looking like right angles and at unsymmetrical pattern on the floor plain. looks very...
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    didn't hatch all the way through

    I just hatched my first batch of my own bred eggs and had a surprisingly good amount of fertility despite my one rooster and twenty hens... a seemingly odd number of eggs were pipped but didn't break the shell all the way around. The due date was three days ago and I'm about to take them out of...
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