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    Vendor recommendation for purchasing electric fence controller?

    I'm going to be purchasing an electric fence charger and have decided on the Parmak MAG12-UO, a battery-powered charger. This will be set up in conjunction with a pv panel and charge controller. It's primary use will be to protect a vegetable garden from (lots of) deer. Has anyone got a...
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    Pressure canning pork sausage...???

    Ok, I'm thinking about pressure canning some link pork sausage. I understand that sage can make it bitter so I'll check out the ingredients first. The NCHFP at the University of Georgia lists the standard brown and can at 10 pounds for 75min/pint or 90min/quart. It also states to top off with...
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    Predator/Slaughter-proofing, hardware cloth vs welded/woven wire

    Ok, if you're not going to predator proof your coop, for instance your chickens will have free-choice free range, I can see where it doesn't really matter whether hardware cloth, welded or woven wire, or even chicken wire is used to fence a run or to cover coop windows with being as the pop door...
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    Recommendation for wireless microphone system????

    The church that I attend is considering purchasing a wireless microphone system. The area the microphones will be used in will require a transmitting range of less than 100'...probably closer to 60', but will be transmitting from the front, elevated pulpit area to the back of the church at...
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    Posting pictures of your new coop.....include a little info.

    I know people like to post photos of their chicken coops, whether new or old. They've got a right to be proud of them...and I like to look at them and get ideas from them. But, many times I see just a photo posted with no accompanying information...just a photo. It is hard to get measurements...
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    "Urgent Chrome Update" phony download notice...

    Just a few mintues ago... I had been on the forum for about an hour and suddenly the forum screen and tab was replaced with an "Urgent Google Update" screen depicting the google icon and a download button. The hijack(?) attempt already had a "patch" file in the download que ready to send to...
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    Percentage of roosters in an all-female 1-day old chick hatchery order?

    I'm thinking that if I end up ordering my chickens from a major hatchery that I will pay the little extra for females rather than going with straight run. I do want a rooster or two, though. The three breeds that I'm considering are Barred Rock, Easter Eggers, and Welsummers. In ordering...
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    Intheswamp's coop and run ponderings....

    Ok, bear with me. I'm a newbie trying to put together plans for my coop....after seven years absence I figure it's about time. ;) Why does it seem like I'm trying to reinvent the wheel? Here are some basic things that I'm pretty much decided on (subject to change): Size: 8x12 coop with...
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    Do you use sand or wood shavings in your coop? (MAP ON FIRST PAGE OF THREAD!!!)

    Please use this map to select your climate area, then select whether you use sand or wood shavings in your coop. I had planned on using the DLM (Deep Litter Method) but then got to reading about people using sand in their coops. Living in the hot and humid Deep South I'm wondering which...
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    Hello....again. :)

    Well, it's been something like five years since I was last on the forum. Lot's in life has happened with me since then. My chicken raising got put on extended-hold while I've dealt with some family issues, health issues and simply trying to survive in this economy. During that time I...
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    Prayer request

    We received a call yesterday from north Georgia that my wife's sister had apparently died in her sleep this past Sunday or Monday. We had UPS'd a Christmas package to her that arrived at her apartment Tuesday. The neighbors saw the package still on the front porch Thursday and got the...
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    Ceramic top or coil-type stove???? Help me pick a stove!!!! HELP!!!!

    This is a (very) short poll to help me and the wife decide on a type of stove... Well, a long story short... We're looking, after 20 years, to switch to an electric stove from gas. I love gas stoves but our last one has had issues and has left a bad impression on my wife so...we're apparently...
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    Origins of Barred Plymouth Rocks, according to...

    Here are some pages pertaining to the origin of the Barred Rocks. This is from "Principles and Practice of Poultry Culture" by John Henry Robinson 1916. It's interesting reading, hopefully it's pretty close to how it happened. Ed
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    Autumn hatched chicks....an article on lighting and maturing pullets

    The idea of the "off season" hatched birds being inferior is something that has bugged me for a while and something that I've just recently re-visited. My initial curiosity was tweaked by something I read in Gail Damerow's chicken handbook regarding fall-hatched pullets possibly being more...
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    Help! Needing suggestions for a good food blender...

    I hope it's ok to post this here, I'm figuring all the good cooks frequent this forum so I figured it'd be the best place to ask for some help. I've got a good friend who will be having some heavy-duty dental restoration done in the near future and will need her "chewy" food ran through a...
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    BP oil spill location, western FL panhandle note, and underwater oil.

    The following was forwarded to me from a retired AF colonel who lives in Fort Walton Beach, FL. The person who wrote the article is in very close contact with NOAA. Both of these gentlemen are well informed. I've been concerned about the "underwater oil" but haven't seen a lot mentioned about...
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    Anybody ever jetted a well?

    I'm thinking about jetting a well and wondering if anyone here has done it and what their experience doing it was. The location of the well is remote so I'll be using a generator powered pump pulling water from a creek. The water is to supply a small cabin that I'm building. Thanks, Ed
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    What Do You Do With An Unwanted Roo?

    To the tune of the Carpenters singing "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" What do you do with an unwanted roo? You add carrots and taters...and onions, too. So far at least until tomorrow, I'll leave him in the crockpot on me-e-e- de-ummm. I'll leave him in the crockpot on me-e-e- de-ummm...
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    Two things about silkies...

    Being the rank newbie that I am I have trouble sometimes understanding/comprehending/realizing/assimilating/visualizing/rationalizing certain chicken "things". Silkies, for example.... 1 . When I see pictures of them I can't help but think about tribbles on STAR TREK and *something* to do...
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