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DL Methionine - any natural replacements, or is it necessary?
We're working with a local mill to get a custom layer mix put together for us (1000 lb order to test), since we have a somewhat varied flock. A poultry nutritionist put together a recipe for us which included an amount for DL Methionine. The mill -- which usually does cattle feeds -- doesn't...- acipolone
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- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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Anyone in Louisiana ever process for state agent?
We haven't processed a whole lot of birds for human consumption, but we operate under the 20,000 Producer/Grower exemption. In Louisiana, you need to register with the state and they come out quarterly to review and we need to send in logs of our sales quarterly, as well. The fellow who was...- acipolone
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- Forum: Meat Birds ETC
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Disappearing eggs. Need some help!
We have a bit of a mystery on our hands. We have a flock of about 30 ducks, about 7 are drakes. For awhile we were getting a lot of eggs, around 8-9/day then as the summer went on we went down to to 3 eggs a day, then 2, then 1 ... now nothing. At night they are enclosed in a large square pen... -
Meat birds - Louisiana
Anyone in Louisiana process poultry for sale? We just moved to a 9 acre farm and it already had a bunch of coops and pens for poultry. We've been raising ducks for awhile, and figured we might as well continue with that as well as spread out and do some chickens and other poultry (we got some...- acipolone
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What the heck ... coloring and poo question.
So you might remember Sedrick from awhile ago. He was the sole hatchling from two clutches. Kerath and I have been trying to hatch him so brothers and sisters -- got about 8 in the incubator right now that seem viable (including some from Wifezilla!), so we'll see what happens... -
Possibly hatching problems ...
We have 5 eggs that should be hatching soon (like, tomorrow!) but we're worried that we're not seeing any pips. We candled over the weekend and there was movement and even heard some peeping from a few, but still no pips. These eggs were collected from one of our runner/orpington hatchlings... -
Eggs getting eaten ... rats?
We're having some rat problems -- nothing big, just an occasional one now and again -- and they're eating our main layer's eggs. We were hoping to let her lay her own clutch (she's pretty broody), but we keep finding the eggs dragged out of the crate, pushed in, and completely empty. Any... -
Duckling update, and a new addition ...
Hello there! The ducklings are just about a month old now and have most of their feathers. I have to say, there's some pretty looking ducks in this bunch. There's 9 in this photo. I think Tiny -- the littlest one that we didn't think was going to make it -- is getting squished behind the... -
What have we got??
You may remember me from my first post a couple weeks ago. We had three males -- two blue Indian Runners and one Buff Orpington -- and one female, also a Buff. (Sadly, my big dog, Barley, got into them and dispatched the male Buff ...) Anyway, we're trying to see if there's any way of reading... -
Introduction, and a question!
Hello! We just hatched our first clutch -- what an amazing experience! We have 2 Indian Runner males, 1 Buff Orpington female and 1 Buff Orpington male that we've bred. Out of the 14 eggs, we ended up with 9 ducklings. Everything went pretty well except for the hatching -- some apparently had...