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    Uninsulated Garage Brooder

    You probably can't get the temp of the brooder up to 95 without a heat lamp to start. Put a thermometer under the brooder plate and see how hot it gets. I use both to start. You need to warm them up as fast as possible when they arrive. I have found that they are drawn to the heat lamp...
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    In the Mail! Home Tomorrow!

    Agree that the spacing on a dog crate is too large to keep chicks in for about the first 10 days. Put them in the largest cardboard box or plastic tote to start if that's all you have available. If you are brooding in the house, skip the pine shavings. The dust will kill you. I slit feed...
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    Best time to order chicks

    I got my first chicks of the year Jan 20. (CO) Lucked out on a warm spell (50's) and the chicks got here overnight, 800 miles. I always start chicks Dec-Jan as I sell started pullets and they need to be ready to sell in April. I can count shipping deaths on one hand out of 1000 chicks. I...
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    Hello from Northeastern Colorado

    What colors of guinea fowl are you raising? Just getting back into guinea after this summer's grasshopper invasion. Currently have pinto. Want another color.
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    Natural ways to get Vit B for my chickens?

    I just drop a human grade vitamin B tablet in their water. Not perfect but never had issues with my gosling.
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    Predator/Great Pyrenees help needed!

    As part of a team, a cattle dog is usually very tuned into this environment but I would be concerned about him going uo against a pack just because of the size disadvantage.
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    Goose problem

    Stick it with a needles. Pull back on the plunger and see if you can aspirate any thing. Is it hard, squishy or hot?
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    Predator/Great Pyrenees help needed!

    0 recall, selective hearing, not coming when called, they do eventually return home when they are good and hungry just not now. I have keeped an adult Akbash (wired just like a GP) and a GP in a 4' fenced area. They were both heavy 120#+ not athletic dogs. They tended to go through instead...
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    Predator/Great Pyrenees help needed!

    Is your property dog fenced? GPs will roam and have pretty much 0 recall. I love GPx. Still have the guarding instincts but is more interested in hanging with the family. I also like a dog who wants to patrol and bark at night. Sleeps during the day.
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    Saving pepper plants for next year?

    Just save some seeds and start your own next year.
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    Silver Leghorn Pullets

    I get $25 each in Denver. You should have a decent market. Check CL.
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    SOS! Hen pecked egg open

    Put the egg on a wet paper towel in the brooder.
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    Price range

    Your market will determine what you can sell them for.
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    Optional Non Pine shaving Coop thoughts? I'm allergic to the pine bedding.

    Shredded paper or cardboard, straw, hemp, sand, leaves, dried grass, chopped hay....
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    Frozen Vegetables

    Instead of going out and buying, start with your freezer. Clean out open bags of fruits and vegetables. I give them mystery freezer burnt meats, rolls... just about everything I can no longer identify. Can't justify throwing it away. You can fill plastic containers with kitchen scraps, cover...
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    How many Roos per hens?

    You are probably fine with 4. It's pushing it. Do you have any adult hens that can teach teenage boys some manners? My best roosters got put in their place over and over by the big girls.
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    Help! New to chickens. After lots of research settled on Barred rocks because they are doile and are said to accept new members into the flock. Have

    At 16 weeks any barred rock cockerels will be obvious. Should be crowing, taller, nice big breast, larger and redder combs....
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    Goose leaves nest after the first egg hatches.

    Mine do this as well. I just fire up the incubator as they get close. Never great results but I can coax one or two to finish.
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    Hornswaggled! Is this an Easter Egger?

    Sure. Pink is an EE egg color.
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    Stopped go in coop at night

    The coop is too hot.
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