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    Metzer Farms goose order

    Just had to share. I got my babies in yesterday, and they are really settling in. I talked to them from the start and stuck with them while they warmed up, got food and water. And now have accepted me as one of their own. And talk back to me when I go by their pen if I say anything. When I...
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    My 2018 McMurray Hatchery order. Columbian Wyandotte, Speckled Sussex and Leghorns.

    Just had to share some pictures of my morning... My order from McMurray Hatchery is in. I ordered 12 Speckled Sussex, 6 Columbian Wyandottes, 7 Pearl White Leghorns (of which there are actually 8, they sent an extra. And then the rare chick that I now think is a Sultan. All chicks alive and...
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    My Hoop Coop.

    Sharing pics of a Hoop Coop I recently built. Made a frame that is 2x4s that is close to 8 foot by 8 foot. The front and rear board are notched and actually sit on top of the boards on the sides. So there is a gap approx. an inch and a half. So that the boards on the sides act as skids that I...
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    Welsh Harlequins all feathered out!

    I bought some welsh harlequins from Metzer farms along with a couple crested ducklings and raised them with a friend's flock of diff breeds. She's seeing why I love my welshies! But since they are out on her farm I don't get to visit as much as I'd like to! Anyhow, thought I'd share some...
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    My Metzer order arrived!

    A friend of mine and I were talking some time back how she was going to get some ducks for her farm and in the conversation encouraged me to put in a small order for some. So she got hers today from one place, and I got mine from Metzers. 8 Welsh Harlequins and 2 White Cresteds. This will be...
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    Got my chicks from McMurray today...

    I got my order in this morning from McMurray. A mix of silver polish, buff laced polish, white crested black polish, blue silkies, buff silkies, red stars, and a single buff cochin that was the free chick. Here are some pictures I took. When I first opened the box I immediately noticed a...
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    Going into lockdown and the temp wants to climb!

    I am using a King Suro 20 incubator. Testy little thing! All through incubation I've been tapping the temp up or down a wee little. I have TWO digital thermometers inside with the one probe on top of the egg on one side, and down between two eggs on the other side. And both read differently...
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    Chicken coop in North Dakota...at six degrees...

    This past year I went ahead and got some cornish cross and around ten or so layer breeds for pets. Just for the summer. Butchered the meat birds. Well two months after I got mine my mother in law ordered ten chantecler chicks from Ideal hatchery and got 25 chicks. Most of them were chanteclers...
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    How long to sit cooling before freezing?

    We just butchered 12 eight week old Cornish Cross chickens. I'm curious what methods everyone uses for cooling. We are just going to leave ours in coolers outside tonight as it's going to be cold overnight here in ND. We filled up the coolers with cold water and plan to let them soak for at...
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    At what age do cornish do without heat?

    Wow, the pen in the barn is getting stinky! I've only got 24 cornish in there along with some laying birds. I'd like to move them out to a chicken tractor, but I am concerned about the temps falling at night. They are almost six weeks old and when I come in the day to tend to them I find them...
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    Four week old Cornish Xs had to be butchered...

    Yesterday I noticed one of my Cornish cross birds was already down on it's feet. Like it had no control of anything past it's hocks and could only by it's hocks move around. Today I totally stripped out the pen they live in and put new shavings down. I noticed a bird that didn't want to move at...
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    Two week old chicks with curled middle toes...

    Back in high school my first chicken project had troubles when at about two weeks of age some of the chicks developed curled middle toes. That is, the middle toe would turn sideways and curl in to various degrees. I was told by the vet that it was a riboflavin deficiency. And usually stemmed...
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    Got my chicks in from McMurray Hatchery...

    About a month ago I put in my order for chickens. The wife said we needed chicken in our freezer again. So I went with McMurray as I wanted to be able to select just a few extras for pets for the summer months at my mother in law's country home. I checked with a friend who has a hobby farm on...
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    Buying Broilers from Ideal Hatchery...asking for experiences...

    I'm just curious, is there really a difference where you get your broilers from? I'm on the fence right now who to get my broilers from! But aren't most hatcheries getting their eggs from the same broiler breeders anyway, or do different hatcheries have their own broiler breeders? Right now...
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