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    Falling in love...

    I've read here more than once that if you're raising turkeys for the table to not get too attached to them. I'm trying hard- we have two whites, our first two turkeys ever, that we're raising for slaughter and I am falling in love with them. The way they chirp, the way they look at you and look...
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    Rooster's being helpful in a weird way

    I have a bunch of young roosters (they're about 15 weeks). Well, there are four of them, three bantam types and one leghorn. My husband and I were butchering cornish crosses. We had put the cornishes into a separate shelter for the last 24 hours and we were pulling them out of the shelter and...
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    A meat bird that breeds true and like the cornish X?

    We're raising cornish x's for the first time. We talked to a lot of folks who have them and read a lot- turned out we were managing wrong at first and what I've seen has been wrong management, so we changed it up. Our cornish x group is a fast growing, healthy, charming, active group of birds...
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    Rouen might go broody maybe?

    My rouen hen has made a nest depression in her hut and for the last month her and our pekin hen with her have been laying eggs in it which I collect every day. Today, we moved these girls (who are also with a drake) to a bigger pen in an old shed. We layed down some straw and about an hour later...
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    So, homeschooling.

    I'm a mom to two girls, ages 6 and 3. My 6 year old currently goes to the area public elementary. She's doing well there, likes it and likes her teacher. But, due to some personal issues with public school and how social lives are handled in schools these days, I've always heavily considered...
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    Three-four day old chick crowing?!

    I have a small group of "mixed bantam" chicks that I bought to go with my one successful hatch out of my first batch of hatching eggs, since this chick was alone. I've now had these chicks for just over 24 hours. One... it's tried crowing a few times. It's hard to explain what it sounds like...
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    Okay, who laid what?

    I have a rouen and a pekin in the pen that these were collected from. I've been getting the smaller white eggs for about two weeks now. Today I got this green giant in the same nest depression where I always find the white eggs. So, who did what? Does anyone know?
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    Faster and slower development question

    It's day 5 for my first attempt at incubating eggs. I candled today. All of my eggs are developing! However, all of the eggs look like they're around day 4, with veining but still showing that vein-y circle. One egg though has veins that look like a typical day 6 or so I would say, with a...
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    Telling myself this right now.

    I showed pics from my first candling session today to someone, and they told me to stop worrying and wait a few more days. Today is technically day 4 for my first group of eggs. This is what they look like overall. Pictures are poor, I'm sorry. Dunno how to take better photos without a camera...
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    About to get my first batch of hatching eggs!

    USPS tracking says that today is the expected delivery date. They're not here yet, but in my experience this is usually pretty accurate for USPS. So today is probably going to be a big day! I've had my DIY incubator up and running for over a week now. Nice and steady temps in there with...
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    My ducks just started laying for the first time!

    I've been sort of expecting them to lay and sort of not... these must have been laid earlier this morning and they of course already froze in our 5 degree temps, as they were all cracked. There were no eggs yesterday, and today there were three! I have two hens, a rouen and a crested pekin, and...
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    Made an incubator!

    This is our first time with any of this. We decided to make our own incubator, since what I saw at the store was nothing more than what we were able to make ourselves for a fraction of the cost anyway. We've been running it for a while and getting out all of the kinks, in preparation for eggs...
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    Large breed chicken eggs and large breed duck eggs except muscovy

    I am looking for someone willing to ship me some hatching eggs of large breed ducks and chickens, I only need a few of both. Jersey giants were one breed I was interested in trying for the first time with chickens, but open to anything similar or mixed similar. I prefer rouens and other large...
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    So new, don't even have my first chickens yet!

    I say that because last year we started with ducks and we're looking forward to adding chickens next season. My husband wants to raise our own meat, and I want to raise bug patrol and egg givers/pets. We're pretty set on breeds of chickens to start with, although not totally sure where and how...
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