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  1. Oreo

    I need egg cartons!

    Ok, how do I find a reasonable source for egg cartons? Wherever I look they are $.25 or more each, and that is totally unacceptable. I can only sell eggs for $3-4 a dozen, and there's no margin in there for .25 cartons. To sell through my local farmer's market (they will give me $3 a dozen and...
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    Keets question

    Anybody who may have seen my posts before knows I have three adult guineas I bought about three weeks ago. They are penned up and are "imprinting." Three weeks down, five to go (!?). My question has to do with the little keets my boss just bought. He bought 16 of them from about age 3 weeks to...
  3. Oreo

    Finally!

    NOTE: This is a chatty, gushy, braggy post. You won't learn anything new. If you don't want to read it that's ok! Today broke the doldrums of about a week and a half with no eggs. It appears that one of my pullets laid her first egg. We have about six mature hens that have not laid in a week...
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    whole oats

    Can you feed whole oats to chickens or do they have to be ground? I already have some on hand and wanted to feed them oats instead of corn since it's so hot. I don't have a real good way of grinding it.
  5. Oreo

    New to guineas

    Hi, everybody. I recently obtained three guineas, two females and a male. From reading on this forum, I learned of the need to keep them caged up for quite some time to get them to "imprint" or realize this new place is home. I have them in a space 5x10' with chain link, woven wire, or wooden...
  6. Oreo

    No eggs???

    We have a number of chickens we have obtained from various sources. A week and a half ago we had at least 5 hens laying including two leghorns we had just recently bought. All the chickens live together and free-range along with being given some cracked corn morning and night. The bulk of our...
  7. Oreo

    Natural breeding

    Hi, y'all. I'm interested in possibly getting a few turkeys. I know some breeds, such as BBB, can not naturally breed and have to be artificially inseminated. Questions: 1. How difficult is the AI process, is it a pain to deal with, or relatively simple? 2. What breeds can breed naturally...
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    Anybody else have sheep?

    We have three ewes. Two of them lambed this spring, and we have three lambs. The ewes are, evidently, mixed breed. The ram we used last fall was a katahdin. We are raising our sheep on our one-acre house lot. We hope to add chickens soon.
  9. Oreo

    Wire floor so poop can drop

    Hi-- looking at building the coop. We live in a climate where it almost never gets below 20 degrees in winter. My parents used to have rabbit hutches with wire mesh floors so the droppings could fall right through. Will this work for chickens to reduce cleanup? If it would be too cold in the...
  10. Oreo

    Araucanas-- please compare to more normal breeds

    Hi! My first post on this site. We are considering getting a few hens for home egg production, and possibly sell or give away a few. When I was a toddler, my grandparents had an araucana and I remember my mom showing me the blue egg every time before she cooked it for me. Since then, I've grown...
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