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  1. JohnG

    caution with light for heat

    It got unusually cold here the past few nites. So I put up a clamp on light for heat. Well it must have got knocked down on the floor and it burnt a 6 inch hole right through a 3/4 inch piece of plywood. I do not know what kept it from buning the whole coop down. I now have it so if it comes...
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    Egg selling idea

    I have 23 hens at home and we do not eat that many eggs. So I placed and ad on Craigslist. And started selling a few. But, not near enough, I was slowly getting more eggs than I could sell. So I started giving people .25cents off each dz. if they would bring me an emply carton. It has made a big...
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    wierd quail hatch

    I had a funny quail hatch. I had 30 bobwhite eggs 14 hatched right on time. I left the other eggs in the incubator for two more days and when I went to clean out the incubator, I picked up one of the eggs that had piped but not hatched. As I picked off a little more of the shell I heard the...
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    quail pics

    Look what is going on at our house. I bought 30 coturnix and 30 bob white eggs from GQF. I cannot say enough about the quality of there eggs. Not a single egg was broke. I am using the hovabator thermal air incubator with turner and using a LG for my hatcher since the two birds have different...
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    guineas hatching

    OOPS, I went to take my egss out of the turner this a.m. and there was a little chic laying on the turner. I guess the female Guinea was sitting on the eggs longer than I thought. So I added the water to bring my humidity up and took them out of the turner. Out of 9 eggs two have hatched and two...
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    Chickens and quail

    Does anyone have quail and chickens in together. I want to try and hatch some quail from eggs and would like to keep them in the same pen as the chickens. Is this possible or would I be better off building something completly different for the quail? If anyone wants to give any advise to...
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    hatching guinea eggs

    Are the instuctions the same to hatch Guinea (sp) eggs as for chicken eggs? I read the sticky on hatching chicken eggs and am ready to give it a try. My guinea started sitting on her eggs last nite and this morning before the male birds came off the roost I went outside and waited sure enough I...
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    A few pics of my coop

    Here are a few pics of my coop and chickens. http://s203.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/rgraf/chickens/
  9. JohnG

    who has plucker

    How many use a electric plucker? I have been looking at prices and they are kind of high. Is it really that hard to clean them by hand? I was thinking about using my turkey fryer as a scalder.
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    Cost per bird

    Hello, I am a newbie here I have 29 layers at home that are almost 5 wks old. These are our first chickens. And I am already thinking about raising some meat birds. I have read on here not to raise them as a source of cheap meat. And that is not why I would, I want to start raising more of our...
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