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    Looking for hatching eggs of any breed in Western Mass

    I'm looking to purchase hatching eggs from farms in Western Mass. The breed doesn't matter to me and I need them fairly often for a research project so it would seem silly to order them online every time and pay shipping costs. Does anyone have any they would be willing to sell? I do need them...
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    OvaScope Egg Candler Light with Webcam / taking pictures of egg candling??

    Has anyone used the OvaScope Egg Candler Light from brinsea with a webcam? In the product description on the website, it says that it can be fitted with a webcam to take video or pictures I presume. Has anyone actually done this and if so what kind of results did you get? Alternatively (and...
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    Incubators with controllable humidity (integrated) or Pumps that work with Nurture Right 360

    Hi All! I'm looking for either an incubator that has humidity control integrated into the system already or humidity pumps that would work with the nurture right 360. Has anyone used a pump with the nurture right? Like either of these...
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    Do you have a ratting terrier on your farm (especially in Northeastern US)?

    Hello! I am having a serious rat and mouse problem on my farm and therefore I am considering getting a terrier to help with the rat problem. I have tried other methods of rat removal (cats, poison, plaster of paris, glue traps, electric traps, traps, digging up their nests where I find them...
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    Storage and Chick Brooder Space in a Coop?

    I have some questions for those of you who have large(ish) coops with storage space inside for feed, bedding, and brooder space for chicks inside (or who want such a setup and have ideas) that you have built yourselves or had built. I am planning on building a coop this summer. The space I have...
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    Internal Dimensions of Incubators? (Brinseas especially)

    Hello! I am doing some research on a new incubator. My rcom mini that I have been using for 10 years is dying, but hopefully it will hatch the eggs in it right now before it goes! Currently, I am torn between the nurture right 360 and coughing up the money for a Brinsea. One thing I am...
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    Incubator Questions: Nurture Right 360 forced air / fan? What are the dimensions? Other recommendations?

    Hello! To those of you who have a Nurture Right 360 Incubator, does it have a fan (or is forced air? still not 100% sure about the difference, if there is one) or is it still air? Also, what are the dimensions of the internal chamber? I am looking to get a new tabletop incubator to replace my...
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    Laws on selling poultry meat for pets/captive carnivorous animals?

    Hello All, Not sure if this would go better in the local chicken laws and ordinances forum, but as it is about selling birds for meat, I was thinking you all might know more. So I am starting a quail breeding independent study on my college farm. We are planning on selling eggs and as the farm...
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    Jiffy bands for Quail? Other ways to mark individual chicks?

    Hi All, A friend of mine and I are looking to start a quail breeding project at our college's farm (we originally planned on chickens, but as quail are ready to reproduce so much earlier we switch to Coturnix quail). We would like to be able to chart an individual's growth so we need some way...
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    Farm dog breeds

    Hi All, I'm wondering what everyone's experience with their farm dogs. What breeds or mixes did you have? I know breed isn't everything and that training and socialization is important, but some breeds are just more adaptable or meant for certain lifestyles than others. What age did you get them...
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    Fisher Cat Behavior: Hunting During the Day? And young birds foraging in the woods

    I have a fisher cat nest about 100 yards from my house and one of them got in my coop, killed two of my pullets (a buff orp and a white rock) and my two Ameraucana mix roosters. I have sealed the coop where the fisher cat got in (I saw him in the act of trying to pull my sweet roo through the...
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    Integrating Many Pullets to a Small Older Flock

    Hello All! I am looking for some advice on integrating some pullets with my old flock. I have been keeping chickens for 15 years so I have integrated many birds in with a flock, but usually, I would be integrating 3 or 4 pullets with a larger flock (6-8 birds). Currently, however, my flock of...
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    Identify Birds: Wing Bands? Leg Bands?

    Hello! I am curious about how people identify their birds in a large breeding flock. I have done some research on leg bands and wing bands, but I wanted to hear some advice from others with more practical experiences. I am hoping to do some informal research with dual purpose breeds and would...
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    Heritage Dual-Purpose Breed Recommendations?

    Hi All! I am looking into starting a sustainable meat and egg production program on my college's farm and I am looking for breed recommendations. I think that a dual purpose breed would work best and I would love to work with a heritage breed (we can also get more funding with a heritage breed...
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    Managing a Dual Purpose Breed Flock for Eggs and Meat

    Hi All! I am looking into starting a sustainable meat and egg production program on my college's farm and I am looking for advice/book recommendations/experience. Basically any advice you all can give me! I have been raising egg birds for a hobby for about 15 years now, but I have never run it...
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    Disobedient Teenager Chickens Staying Out Late

    Hello! I have four teenager chicks (aged about six months so maybe they are really young adults) that refuse to go to bed in the coop. Instead, they like to sleep about 8 feet off the ground in trees above the coop. Seeing as we have had some trouble with a fox recently and these birds should...
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    Ameraucana Breeding and Showing Questions

    Hello, I have been raising chickens for fun and for eggs for almost 15 years and now that I feel that I have quite a good grasp of chicken behavior and management, I am interested in breeding and showing my own birds. I have had experience with many breeds and have decided that the Ameraucana...
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    What is this hen doing??

    Hello, This afternoon I found my hen trying to crawl under one of my roosters. Whenever he would walk forward so would she and get further under him. Was she trying to get him to mate with her? She hasn't laid any eggs in years as she is about 8 years old. Any ideas?
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    What are these birds doing?

    Hello, A couple of months ago I got a picture of three of my birds doing the strangest thing in my uncultivated garden. It's one of my old roosters and two of my younger hens. Does anyone have any idea why or what they were doing? I haven't seen them do it since and they all seemed fine but I...
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    What would you call this color?

    Hello! I have an Ameraucana rooster that I am interested in showing or breeding show stock, but I do not know what to call his coloring. He is about four or five years old so he may be too old to show and he also has a bent toe. Even if he is not show quality I am still interested in knowing...
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