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    Pavlovskya hatching eggs

    They are!
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    Pavlovskya hatching eggs

    Longshot: Not NPIP certified so local pickup only, Kent Co. MI. These chickens landed in my lap and I'm not a professional breeder. I put a dozen in my incubator and they are all developing, so fertility is good. Colors will be a mixed bag as I don't have the setup to separate for color...
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    Old member reintroduction

    1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Have had chickens for about 9 years. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? About 50 chickens, but also 5 ducks, 2 muscovies, 15 quail, 3 turkeys (3) What breeds do you have? pavlovskaya, Bielefelder, Blue Andalusian...
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    pavlovskaya?

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    Pavlovskaya

    I was gifted a flock of pavlovskayas from a family member who was moving and couldn't keep them and I want to hatch eggs. My issue is that two of the roosters don't have the muffs and beard. One of them has a very Polish mop on his head to boot. Should those two be removed from the breeding...
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    Turkey hen hatching two breeds and timing question

    I'm going to sound like a complete imbecile. My turkey hen went broody on a clutch of eggs that were a mixture of her own and muscovy eggs (which take a week longer, I knew that). But I let it go because of work and stuff. Things were crazy. A muscovy hen was originally sharing the nest but...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    I lost a bird yesterday to a fox (not the first but the first in a few years). My muscovy hens like to hang out in the sheep pasture at dusk, well after all the chickens go to bed, and the fox got in and nabbed one. It couldn't get her out though, so the fox ate it right there at the fence :(...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Does anybody in West Michigan breed muscovy ducks? Please let me know. Looking for hatching eggs or chicks when available.
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Hope everyone is doing well since I popped in about 150 posts ago. Loved the story, Raz, about the cell phone. Cool to hear that the cremani's are making their way into MI. When I started out in chickens they were pretty much just a myth, complete with misinformation. I don't know that I...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Hey all. Been a while. We've been enjoying the fall. My husband and I drove around the entire U.P. last weekend and had a blast. I found a house I wanted to buy on Stonington Peninsula. Old, run down place with a barn, abandoned but for sale. I can dream, right? Anyway, he got the car...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Does anyone buy this brand of chicken feed? I think it's from Walmart. I don't shop there and have never heard of it but I have a customer that would love a tote made from one. If you happen to buy this brand and could save a few bags, let me know. PM is fine.
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    I'm looking for empty feed sacks again, woven plastic feed sacks. I turn them into totes and sell them on Etsy You can see them here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HudsonHobbyFarm. It's not the most profitable venture for the work involved but I do enjoy doing it over the long winter so I'm...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Went to the Fallasburg festival yesterday. It was nice. My son had a Fusion gig there in the afternoon. They're a rock orchestra group with the high school. He and his viola have just been accepted into the Grand Rapids Youth Symphony and his brothers play cello and violin so we're all...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Sorry about your loss uchytil. We lost our 19 1/2 yr old cat last summer to cancer. We'd raised him from birth as an orphan. It was hard putting him down. Then this spring we had a barn cat explosion and socialized 9 kittens for adoption, kept one. All over again. I ended up selling a...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Haven't been around in... oh... about 150 pages. Hope everyone is well. I was wondering how much people in MI sell duck eggs for? I sell my chicken eggs for $3.00/doz for comparison. My khaki campbell ducks are just starting to lay so it will be a while before I get enough to sell but I get...
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    Turkey Tom Quandary

    Ha! My tom (who is now in the freezer) would mate with an old rusty license plate that was sitting out in the pasture. Of all the things to mount! He would dance on it and then do his business. Hilarious to watch. I wouldn't go into the pasture without a rake in my hand to keep him at a...
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    Need Help with Duck Pond Ideas

    Thanks for the input. I ended up getting the large pond liner from Lowes. The hardest part was chiseling out a drain hole in the bottom of the cistern. But it works! I've emptied it and refilled it today for the first time and it drains pretty well. There was still a little sand in the...
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    Turkey Tom Quandary

    Thanks for all the info! The hen seems great, except that she failed at being a broody her first go. She would spend all of some days on the nest and then most of others in the yard and eventually I had to get rid of her dead and rotting eggs, lots of quitters. Maybe next year? I hatched a...
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    Turkey Tom Quandary

    I have a pair of bourbon reds, about one year old. They're probably related as I bought them from the same breeder. I had intended on raising both for T-day dinner last fall but when I found out that they were a pair, I got greedy and hung onto them, hatching their eggs this spring. I've got...
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    Need Help with Duck Pond Ideas

    We have an old, filled-in cistern next to our milk house and barn that would be really cool as a duck pond. I've been planting millet and sorghum in there for the last few years with little success and my husband came up with the pond idea. It sounds good to me. I've never built a pond...
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