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  1. psittacinekane

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Fortunately, I live really close to Sleeman's Brewery in Ontario. I've contacted them to see if they'll supply me with some beer mash. This would be so much faster than fermenting my own.
  2. psittacinekane

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    This may sound like a naive question ... but here goes: As background, I've been consistently feeding FF to my meaties and heritage breed LS flock & their chicks. Everyone crowds me to get first pick-over of breakfast, lunch and dinner. No problems there, whatsoever. However, I'm wondering...
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    Tender tips for a free range turkey?

    Brine Solution around here is: Water (we brine our poultry in a large cooler, by the way) Brown Sugar White Vinegar Sea Salt Fresh Dillweed Lots of Lemon and Orange Slices A pinch of Chilli Flakes I can't give you exact measurements, because I just eye-ball it depending on how many birds I'm...
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    Potentially Cocci? Or is it worm burden? Need some advice please.

    Thanks, Dawg. I've had the chicks (under 6 months and housed separate from my layer flock) on Amprolium, and have seen only one bloody poo since I began treatment. They seem (fingers crossed) to be on the mend, and I'll take your advice and not treat them for worms. Would the sick hen in my...
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    Cornish X roo not looking so good

    My advice is to process the roo today. If you've adhered to proper flock maintenance throughout, I wouldn't hesitate to feed the bird to my family. You don't say how old your flock is, but my instinct says it's the beginnings of organ failure for which this breed is renowned. Best to have...
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    Potentially Cocci? Or is it worm burden? Need some advice please.

    I have a sick chicken. She's wheezing and looking ruffled. I read through the forum and decided to treat the flock with Worm Away, which states it is Praziquatel (20g/L) and Oxfendazole (20g/L). Worm Away is marketed as a cage bird dewormer (and is all I had on-hand at 11:00 last night), so...
  7. psittacinekane

    Worming Chickens?

    I have a sick chicken. She's wheezing and looking ruffled. I read through this whole thread and then decided to treat the flock with Worm Away, which states it is Praziquatel (20g/L) and Oxfendazole (20g/L). Worm Away is marketed as a cage bird dewormer, so I'm a little worried about my...
  8. psittacinekane

    Pipping in the incubator and silence in the hatcher?

    Batch #1 is PIPPING! In the space of an hour, they started!! I guess it's true that life truly does find a way.
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    Pipping in the incubator and silence in the hatcher?

    Sending you wishes for happy hatching, GG! I hope yours go off without a hitch. For me, it's going to be a loooonnnnng day.
  10. psittacinekane

    Pipping in the incubator and silence in the hatcher?

    Wow! If I get ANYTHING to live out of these two batches, it's going to be miraculous. :( I set a dozen (Batch #1) LS eggs in my RollX on May 20. Knowing that the Light Sussex often start pipping for me on or about the 19th day of incubation, I moved them into my hatcher on Day 16, just to...
  11. psittacinekane

    Personality Comparison Between LS and Meaties.

    I recently picked up 20 meat chicks at TSC and I also have a number of Light Sussex that I've raised from my own stock. I was going to compare the two to show similarities and differences, but ya know what? The meaties just DON'T seem to have personalities and as far as similarities go, both...
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    First time hatch day 17

    I moved 30 Light Sussex eggs into my hatcher today. It's Day 17 for me too, but I had to do it today because of an appointment tomorrow. So, I'm with you, Rahul. Sounds like everything is going according to plan for you. Good luck, and fingers crossed that we get some rocking tomorrow!
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    Eggs keep dying before pipping~please help newbie!

    After having the same dismal outcomes you are experiencing, with many disheartening eggtopsies, I decided to try the dry incubation process recently (just going with the ambient humidity in the room and then transferring the eggs to the hatcher on Day 18 where the humidity is a consistent 65%)...
  14. psittacinekane

    Laminaire Cabinet Incubators

    I suspect the above poster is correct regarding the original use for the incubator in your pic. Check the 'net for "ADS Laminaire", because I think this was probably a custom product for a laboratory in the past. As such, you might not have much luck finding an on-line user's guide for it...
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    3 died at about lock down What Happened? Pictures included

    I'm going to throw my hat into the ring here, because I've just experienced the same failures, with almost identical circumstances. On eggtopsy, I discovered my fully-formed chicks had never pipped through their internal membranes, which looks to be the case here, right? After phoning around...
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    Setting Eggs On March 7, anyone else??

    I've been following along with this thread with my own staggered set eggs (Mar. 7 & Mar. 9). Out of the 21 set on both days, I have only 6 live chicks and, of those hatched, it's fairly divided between those set on March 7 and those of March 9. Incidentally, both sets of eggs hatched out one...
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    The Sussex thread!

    So glad I found this thread. These are my latest hatch of LS out of show quality stock I bought in Canada. I have about 20 more eggs baking right now, but I'm unsure about fertility. Time will tell, I guess. Also, I couldn't resist posting a couple of pics of my SS trio hens (the roo...
  20. psittacinekane

    I née help quick!

    How did your hatch turn out? I got these cutie-pie Light Sussex...
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