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    Meat spots-Blood spots, The Cause, The Cure

    I am posting this hoping this gets out to the chicken world and helps a lot of people. We have had chickens for 9 years. 4 years ago we started having eggs with "issues". Meat/blood spots started becoming a huge problem. We could no longer sell or eat most of our eggs. It started off being 3...
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    What breeds lay during winter with NO additional light source?

    When we first started with chickens(black sex-links, red sex-links, barred rocks) we got 1yr old "used" chickens off craigs, it was a sweet-n-sour experience. The chickens laid all winter and gave us a ton of eggs without artificial light. The bad was they came with leg mites and we never could...
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    Heavy snow, bored chickens, now feather pecking each other

    My whole coop-run if full of snow. I snow shoveled some walking areas for them but its not enough. They have no ground to scratch and peck (frozen) and they hate walking in deep snow. I cleared some walking areas that are maybe 2' x 20' (2). Thats the best I can do. There is no free range area...
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    Gluten Free complete layer food?

    I am going to put my chickens on a GF diet and see what happens. I will post back in a week or 2.
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    Gluten Free complete layer food?

    And agin from YOUR link---------->>>>> Now, as I said earlier, a few people who are quite sensitive to trace gluten have reported glutenings (i.e., gluten reactions) when they eat eggs from chickens that eat mainly wheat and barley. These same people are fine when they eat eggs they obtain...
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    Gluten Free complete layer food?

    From your link...... --->>>> Question: Are eggs gluten-free, or do they sometimes contain gluten? Answer: Eggs in their shells should be close to perfectly gluten-free, although some very sensitive people with celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity have reported problems with eggs...
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    Gluten Free complete layer food?

    read post number 6
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    Gluten Free complete layer food?

    I have an egg allergy and I wanted to try gluten free feed. Is it possible to mix a complete layer ration? I also have a gluten allergy and noticed the chicken feed has wheat in it. .................................. On edit-------->>>> I found some fodder but it is not complete...
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    SOLVED W/PICS--->HELP! My slaughtered turkey weighs 45-50lbs, how do I cook it? Time? Temp? Etc?

    Couple of issues with doing it that way. 1.) I have 25 people waiting to eat the bird, so if anything goes wrong its a disaster!!!! 2.) I live in North Idaho and the ground is frozen. 3.) The night temps are single digit 9f. 4.) No experimenting with a bird I raised and people are waiting to...
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    SOLVED W/PICS--->HELP! My slaughtered turkey weighs 45-50lbs, how do I cook it? Time? Temp? Etc?

    To get the brine out should I soak for 8 hours in fresh water? I rinsed it just now. I have it soaking in fresh water.
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    SOLVED W/PICS--->HELP! My slaughtered turkey weighs 45-50lbs, how do I cook it? Time? Temp? Etc?

    OMG this thing is HUGE. Guess we went past the 18 week mark by a few months. I also let him free eat so he and his partner ate 50lbs per week. They were eating machines! Anyways......... I cannot find any info on extra large birds and cooking times. I am guessing 325f for 9-10 hours. I also...
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    Scaly leg mites, moving uninfected birds to infected coop, question

    wow, guess no one wants to reply or help......... went to a farm a feed store and spoke with an expert on the matter, got the solution in my hand. Thanks anyways.......
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    Scaly leg mites, moving uninfected birds to infected coop, question

    Bueller? Hello? Anyone out there????????? Anyone at all?????
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    Scaly leg mites, moving uninfected birds to infected coop, question

    Anyone on what best way to clean/treat coop so bugs dont move to new clean birds?
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    RIR lethargic, won't eat or drink - need advise

    Its sad that no one is chiming in here. There are tons of people that know what to do (im not one of them) and they are not responding to your post. They are not responding to mine either on my coop issue. Make sure you mix in chopped up hard boiled egg to the yogurt mix. It helped one of my...
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    Scaly leg mites, moving uninfected birds to infected coop, question

    wow........ Normally I get 10 posts in a day. Whats going on?
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    RIR lethargic, won't eat or drink - need advise

    Was she interested in the egg/yogurt mixture? You could also mis in a tiny bit of electrolyte powder. If she wont eat from the spoon take a tiny bit about the size of a small pea and roll it into the inside of her beak. See if you can get her to eat a bit.
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