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  1. MoHillbilly62

    Best hatcheries?

    Have to go along with some of the others. cackle hatchery. Great service, will answer and questions you have, all around great folks to do business with.
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    Comment by 'MoHillbilly62' in item 'Hatcheries, Day Old Chicks'

    I have had the best luck with Cackle Hatchery in mo. Check out there web site.http://www.cacklehatchery.com/default.html
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    cannabalism in chicks

    Just had my first issue with this. Had the back side bloody by the time I seen it. Put Prid salve ( Best stuff in the world) on the wound and let set for and hour. Then I grabbed the vapor rub and smeared up its feathers and where they had pulled them out. put it back in the coop and they ran at...
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    cannabalism in chicks

    this was one "cure" for it.
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    Little bit of old school.

    Most of what I know about chickens, came from my grand parents. Gramps was born in a wagon coming from Tennessee and granny was raised on a reservation in Oklahoma, and with 9 kids they raised every thing they ate. Their chickens got all the kitchen scraps except meat or bone, along with what...
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    http://autonopedia.org/renewable-energy/woodburners/making-wood-stoves/ Pretty good place to start reading, I want a furnace. Need to heat about 3000 cubic ft.
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    I like it! great job on the stove. I am wanting to build and outside wood furnace, thats my fall project.
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    With the cost of food and every thing else through the roof, cheaper is the way to go. I live what my friends call "Urban AMish" LOL! But my goal is a total bill out go of 200 a month, I am down to 350 so I am almost there.
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    Something I have been doing for a couple of years now, is dry canning. I do rice, beans, oatmeal, cornmeal and flour. Process your jars like you would for canning and let dry, set you oven at 200 deg. place cookie sheet in the oven. fill jars to the top with your beans etc.. and place on cookie...
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    This is what I cook on and get all my hot water (except the shower) from. This was the day I bought her and getting ready to load up.
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    WOOHOO!! FRUGAL!! Next to free my favorite word! I heat with wood, cook with wood, oil lamps for light, buy bulk at the Amish stores.If there is a way to stretch a penny in I am all for it.
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    Does anyone know what the best bedding for 1 day old chicks is?

    I use newspaper the first 5 days and then pine shavings. I change the newspaper 2xs a day, only reason I use paper is it is easier ( I think) for them to start out eating, I always sprinkle a little starter around the feeder.
  13. MoHillbilly62

    100% Repurposed Coop!

    Looks like something I would build! I dont do fancy, I do cheap and functional!! My brooder is a old 2 door cabnet with the doors removed. Keep up the great work!!!
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    Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

    Some of my new babies.
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    Do you ever feel like calling it a day? *Just caught a dog*

    Talked to the Amish man who lives down the road, his wife boils Cayenne pepper, onion, and jalapeno peppers in water. She lets it cool, strains it and puts it in a spray bottle, she sprays around the coop every day or so. Say's it works good.
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    Do you ever feel like calling it a day? *Just caught a dog*

    As far as coons go, invest in a Duke dog proof trap. bait it with marshmallow and relocate the devil.(videos on you tube on how to set and bait them). I hang old c.d.'s on fishing line about 10 ft over my run so they will spin, Hawks don't seem to like the reflection moving on the ground. I use...
  17. MoHillbilly62

    Greetings from Missouri!!!

    Thank you, Right now I have around 50 meat birds and 15 Buff Orpington for eggs. I try to keep every thing as natural as I can with no chemicals.
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    Greetings from Missouri!!!

    Hope to learn a bunch from you all, maybe share a few things I have learned over the years.
  19. MoHillbilly62

    Rats getting in my coop... HELP!!!

    Rats and mice are very "CLEAN" rodents, that is their weakness. They are constantly grooming their fur, and removing any thing stuck to it. What I do is mix poison with white corn syrup and drizzle it around where they enter and exit the coop. it stick to the hair and gets the job done. Do not...
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