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My understanding it it is it will actually burn the parasites killing them and allowing them to pass them. If you put cayenne on your skin and leave it you will get a burn. Same idea. I could be wrong but I have read a lot about it and that as what I have been commonly reading. Let's see if some...

The feed I use is supplied to me and its granules. Can you ferment granules, its from my local mill.

No I can't run medicated starter because the school district won't allow medicated feed when the animal is for student consumption. I have never used yogurt. Does it actually help that much. I've read about it a few times but never tried it. Yes I think stress and shipping played a huge role. We...

I also spoke with a large Cornish facility a couple towns away and they said that when they have a couple hundred chicks together that they always huddle up. Its when they are stacked 3 high it causes a problem. He said its just a comfort thing for them.

And see that what my thoughts were to, but the temp in there is 90 to 95 degrees and farthest away from the lamp is 85. I have a 12'x12' brooder box that is equipped with 6 heat lamp. 3 250 watt and 3 125 watt. They are arranged in a way that it keeps an even temp around but the back 3'x 12'...

Off and on. There seems to be a constant huddle of at least 40% of the chicks but temps are always fine. I also noticed the dead birds always seem to be around the huddle. Thanks for the link I'm heading there now

Yes we use adv unfiltered in all our animals waterers. we are checking on them hourly to make sure they are doing OK. Everybody looks really healthy... Except dead ones. Ha. Should they be dying like that though. Isn't tjhe mortality rate for the life of the birds not just first few days. They...

Does anybody have any ideas on what I am missing with these guys?

Wow I would invest some time in next time to find cheaper feed. It makes all the difference in getting your money back out. I buy pallet totes of feed (which are the giant white bags that sit on pallets and they fill them up with what I want). I spend $160 per tote and that is well over a ton of...

I forgot to mention I raise a lot of turkeys for my town and don't have deaths like that in my poults. I raise bourbon reds and broad breasted bronze

My wife and I are raising meat chickens for the school district now. We have raised Cornish x for personal but now we raise for the school district. so we have lost a couple Cornish when we raised personal. I just started my new venture. We have two houndred Cornish and we have lost about two a...

Not a problem. Turkeys are a blast to raise. We raise hundreds of chickens and newer to turkeys but we've been doing them the past couple years. Turkeys are my favorite. Are you raising them for meat?

I never use electrolytes and I don't lose poults. I don't know if its connected but I just put adv in the water. Also what are you feeding. Turkeys need high protein to start, like a 28%. Normal chick starter is usually 18% or 20%. That's not near enough. Also make sure where they are kept has...

I have never raised bbw, but I have done a ton of BBB and br and all of them look like mangy and unkept around that age the. broad breast ones start to get more normal looking feathering around 8 weeks. I wouldn't be worried. As long as they are eating and drinking and acting normal.

You want a minimum of 1'6" per bird in a tractor that gets moved daily. The more room the better but I would run about 40 birds in there.

I would start with a batch of egg layers and make sure poultry is right for you. I personally love my meat birds. I have Cornish rocks and a few different kinds of turkeys that we breed. We raise a lot of our meat for the local school district. Processing a bird can be tough. I Have done it for...

I had a similar problem with 7 days old when I realized my wife put the wrong bag of food in the bin. Once we got them off chick starter and on 28% they all started thriving.

I would say hens

How many hens should I have compared to toms to keep a good breeding plan going? I have plenty of room for a lot of birds and want to have a good sized flock going. Also I have done a lot of bbb's and and was wondering if I can breed a coiuiple BBB hens to a br tom to try and get bigger reds. We...

Does anybody know about the breeding of them and butcher age?