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  1. greenhorn

    Day 21 - Should I be worried?

    Have you candled the egg recently?
  2. greenhorn

    11 Hours Without Power

    Woke up this morning at 5 am and heard peeps so I went to bed. When i got out of bed at 8 am there was only one chick. Now there are 4 and I see lots of piping going on. It's day 21 and we had a delay. Running these bators the same as we were for our Dorking chicks last spring and they always...
  3. greenhorn

    11 Hours Without Power

    Thank you sourland.
  4. greenhorn

    11 Hours Without Power

    We lost power for 11 hours and the incubators were down the entire time, in the house and the house got down to 67 degrees. Outside it got cold and chicks that hatched Saturday night / Sunday morning were out in the garage and i was sure they died from exposure. I couldn't bring myself to go...
  5. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I get an egg almost every day from my hens that are just now a tad over 1 yr old. Don't have enough experience with different colors other than black and white, Have 1 SG hen so my input there isn't any good. My blacks are excellent eggs layers, eggs aren't as white as the white birds produce...
  6. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    My black Dorkings are usually right on time but it seems most of the whites have been taking an extra day but not all of them....
  7. greenhorn

    Growing fodder for chickens

    I would say, most definitely, we feed our chickens fermented grains, fodder, scratch, table scraps, their predators (sometimes), dry bag feed, egg shell etc. They love a well rounded diet. We are working on raising crickets and are also working on the solar lights over a bun pan filled with...
  8. greenhorn

    Growing fodder for chickens

    You are correct to be careful with soy. But as stated once germinated it's a different animal but I don't plan on feeding many soy sprouts to our birds. We ferment our soy meal with cracked corn, oats and wheat. Fermenting also changes the soy into a nutritional feed without the anti-nutritional...
  9. greenhorn

    Growing fodder for chickens

    Been planting organic non GMO Soybeans and lentils and other grains and pseudo grains to make fodder with. First time we've done anything like this, always planted veggies though. This autumn we plan to plant wheat, barley, rye and spelt. All organic non GMO of course, already have the seed...
  10. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    If i catch them in the shorter live trap they can't raise their tail. Either way I shoot the stinky things right in the trap if they spray i just hose the trap off from a distance. I let the trap dry and let the stink die down before i go near it. I don't catch and release.... Use rubber...
  11. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Make that 14 whites 2 blacks and still no spots. Maybe I finally got the right birds together. Guess I shouldn't be worrying about the spots so much anyway. The chicks are looking really nice and it sure is cool watching them have the run of the big coop. Know I shouldn't say it but they sure...
  12. greenhorn

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Not to get off topi c but it seems that wood wouldn't be the most sanitary container for fermenting cheese. How are you supposed to clean the barrel between batches? All I can say is YUCK! Thats what stainless steel is about in the food industry. It's not usually about alcohol but about being...
  13. greenhorn

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    If you aren't distilling it, the chance of methanol poisoning is quite minimal.... All I'm trying to state here.... Edited to say: This will be the last time I mention anything about alcohol in this thread, Every time I do, it's the same basic result.
  14. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Skunks will crawl right up a chickens butt to get an egg. I'm here to tell ya, don't do the chicken much good. Was told they will even do that to a rooster..... They don't know the difference I guess...
  15. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Yes when it's colder I do that if i have the time. I try and give my birds a well balanced diet and meat is part of it. I'm thinking that possum is better for them than that bag of GMO food I get from TSC. Of course the possum probably ate plenty of GMO corn before he came here. I call it hair...
  16. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    14 Dorking chicks hatched so far, 12 whites and 2 blacks. Not seeing any black spots this time... Sometimes they don't show up so good at first though... I let some smaller chicks loose in the coops and they can sneak through the fence in the runs but seem to stay within their confines...
  17. greenhorn

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    My guess is that some people are worried that there is enough alcohol in the mash to create a reaction and most know that you don't want to use wood when making whiskey. But like we talked about earlier there isn't enough hooch in a 24 hour ferment to cause any worry. If you are making whiskey...
  18. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    I hear ya and I'm not going to outcross our dorkings at all. Just thought it was interesting that they wrote 3 articles about grading in the same bulletin. Have to admit it was an interesting read. I have already been applying the same basic breeding method with our ISA Brown back cross project...
  19. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Just got my American Standard of Perfection book a couple weeks ago. Been so busy havemn'y had much time to read it all but I did read over the Dorking information. Yes, I had quite a bit to learn. Don't feel that I would have made different rooster selections without the SOP but I may have...
  20. greenhorn

    B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

    Good stuff there. I'm not that up on fertility issues but i did notice something that seems to work pretty good. I notice my number 1 rooster gets lax when he is with the same hens for a spell. But when I put him in a new coop with different hens he suddenly becomes very active. He will service...
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