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  1. MikeG

    Egg mobile project

    Just scored a free camper!!!! Scoured the Internet for some plans/ideas for converting a camper into a pastured poultry coop and couldn't find any to speak of. Will try and record this for future 'dreamers...'
  2. MikeG

    Huge ulcerated liver- Graphic pics linked

    http://instagr.am/p/QqaudsuNQc/ CXs are about 8 weeks old and I've written a few posts regarding their ailment and subsequent losses (20%)- We're processing on Saturday and I was able to catch one in its last hours and processed it. Took a few pictures of the entrails. Liver was HUGE and...
  3. MikeG

    Losing 1-2/ day to unknown causes. Picture attached

    Started with 75 and began losing 1-2 a day last week around week 6. Only symptoms, as far as I can tell, are lethargy and labored breathing. Somebody on a previous thread suggested congestive heart failure. Maybe I need to exercise them a bit more? :/ We're down to 60 birds and have another 3-4...
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    Salatin Pastured Poultry-type pen QUESTIONS-

    Have raised a few batches using hoop-house style pens but decided to make two 8x10 Salatinesque pens for the 75 Cornish Xs this year. I found a how-to on Youtube and followed precisely. We're on week 4.5 and are seeing broken legs. 4 to date. I finished one and figured I had some time before...
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    Electric Poultry Fencing Recommendations

    Have a few weeks before we put our 75 CRs out in pasture on our new farm. While there's a pretty good perimeter fence, locals warn of coyotes and foxes. Definitely am investing in a poutry fence net with solar energizer and am looking for suggestions. Will be pasturing in two 8x10 pens and...
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    Poor management. One egg hatched and still setting on 7 for 4 days

    I acknowledge and hate that I let it happen, but I have a black spanish hen laying on 7 eggs and I don't know when they're do to hatch. Had one hatch 4 days ago and no action on the others. She seems to be caring for the poult, but I'm not sure what to do as these eggs could be 7-12 days newer...
  7. MikeG

    New Hatch Royal Palm/Black Spanish brood with Mom or not?

    I may have made a series of mistakes last nite...I had 2 black spanish and one buff orpington hens setting in one nestbox on 9 turkey eggs. I would have left them but they're in general population. My plan was to pull the buff and all the eggs and let her set and brood them. Well, they one...
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    Her head was pulled right off!

    Our mother hen, 'Grey' was decapitated last night. I did some research on the archives and Must Reads, and don't know if the culprit is a raccoon or opossum. Regrettably, I've been slacking in closing the coop gate at night and something helped themselves to some easy pickins. There was at...
  9. MikeG

    Switching coop & roosts

    I know I made a big mistake but can't undo it. Here's the issues: 1) I just moved a young hatch of turkeys and momma into our chicken tractor which, until I closed the doors, used to be the roost and coop for my mature flock (3 australorps & a silver laced wyandotte). 2) I built a permanent...
  10. MikeG

    Week-old poult amputee

    Help. Noticed one of my two-week old black spanish poults was missing a leg this morning. Its gone, clean, just below the knee. I hadn't noticed it before but it didn't look that fresh. She seems to be hopping around alright. Applied some antibiotic ointment but am thinking about prosthetic (pen...
  11. MikeG

    Setting Hen not eating

    This is our first go with a surrogate broody hen and she is in the ZONE. We're on day 6 and she rarely leaves the nest box and has eaten very little. Although, we have experienced one of the giant poo explosions that we've read about. We have her contained in a 4x5 open bottomed dog crate with...
  12. MikeG

    First time setting eggs with broody australorp

    Novice backyarder here. One of my three Australorps is very broody. I was able to get 12 fertile eggs this afternoon and was planning to place them this evening. Problem is I only have two nestboxes in the coop-one which she's been occupying for the past several days. I've read through past...
  13. MikeG

    Graphic- Butchering Question

    Butchered our first turkey last week. We have three and think they're MWs. At 5 months, she finished at 22lbs. I attached a poor quality photo of them. Question: Upon cleaning the entrails/cavity, I found one egg (hard), and about 12 yolk-like masses of varying sizes. The largest of which was...
  14. MikeG

    new backyard chicken farmer

    From Roanoke, Va. Built a chicken tractor for our small yard urban operation....5 hens- 3 anconas, 1 silver laced wyandotte, and 1 sexlink. Just rolling along. Great site for ideas on the tractor construction!
  15. MikeG

    Irritating Red Eye- 26 week sexlink hen

    Novice backyard owner with small (5 hens) flock. Noticed the sexlink was moping- head down, both eyes are red and swollen, and she keeps them closed most often. This morning she was itching them and rubbing them on her wings and with her feet. She's not eating. I've tried to follow some posts...
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