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Did you ever get a response on your search for Dexter cows? I am looking for a couple of these myself.

Bread! - Have Sussex roo, 3 RIR hen, 3 Comet hen, 1 NH hen and 1 NH roo. All go crazy over bread. Stale but can't have any mold! They will tolerate and slowly eat green beans, watermelon, lettuce, etc. But bring out the bread and the squawking and dancing is on! Will jump over, go under or just...

Yeah. I know the 90% rule. That means that ON AVERAGE, the error rate is 1:10 (10%). My error rate is skewed to the lower deviation of course, 2:9 (22%). LOL Hope to have better luck next year.

Thanks donrae. I heard that most hatcheries gave up the vent sexing. Not everyone can do it and it's getting to be a lost art. Someone told me that you can pick up a chick and if the toes go down, it a pullet, it they go up, a cockerel. Don't know about that one. Then of course there's checking...

Bought pullets from Tractor Supply. This morning caught this little fellow practicing his crowing! Not what I expected. This is 8 week old Sussex. Is there a way to prevent this for future chicks? Heard about checking 2 rows of feathers in wings. This only works on some breeds. Apparently not...

DuMor is made by Cargill. Which also makes NatureWise, Producers Pride, etc. They are in competition with Purina Mills. I quit using DuMor in March of 2012 after there was an extensive recall in all their poultry feed lines - starter, raising, laying. There was an abnormally high amount of toxin...