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    GQF Sportsman 1502 staggered hatch.

    We talked about buying another unit, but it has gone so well that I think for what we do, (hatch alot keep the best if there is a best sell off the rest) it doesn't make sense. If I were gonna do it full time I would definitely buy a second unit. I'm down to my last 2 hatches today and Monday...
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    Poll for those who have had chicken deaths

    Snakes taking young birds. Never get them down just find a half wet dead bird. Its a catch 22 here remove snakes fight rats and mice. Probably lost 6 to snakes out of hundreds and hundreds and more hundreds (acceptable in order to keep things in balance). My own crazy dogs, they test every...
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest Photo Submission - Thread #8

    Gus broke through the screen. Now he can jump up and see what we are doing on the porch. Dogs broke the bottom out y not my goofy pet rooster to take out the screen? He flew into it many times b4 it gave. Took him over a week. This was his moment of grand accomplishment, he gave me one of his...
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    One of our girls was missing for over two weeks...

    thats so cool. We had it happen with an amber link. She got inside an old mobile home and to this day I have no idea how she was coming and going, I just happened to see her through a window one day. Few days later she was out with 3 bitties.
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    My new coop - from a mower shed

    Solar exhaust fan for ventilation. Looks like you have good sunlight there. Same as an attic fan
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Just walked around and looked at what we have done in 3 yrs here. Figs grapes muscadines some hybrid broccoli(? Don't remember what it is, as usual.) Patch of sunflowers and wild flowers and millet for the birds moving into that area. Ever bearing mulberry (we put up 10 gal off 4 trees this...
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    Whatcha Making for Supper?

    Deboned a 10 mth old splash rooster into nugget size chunks (who up till yesterday was a real ahole). Baking soda for 30 min, rinse, batter, and fry. Tenderish (like Chinese chicken) rich flavored chicken nuggets. RIP rocky, you were a convicted tail puller, and an all around butthole. 5.75lbs...
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    All about garden herbs

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    Hatching eggs and business advice

    Also I only have 2 kinds of buyers anymore. Impulse (more money than sense, then thier friends have to have a couple also). People who want something better than average. I spent over 1k on hatching eggs and chicks this yr. I know what I'm looking 4 and they don't have it at TSC for 5.39$ a...
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    Hatching eggs and business advice

    I am not, and I'm not getting into a debate about why I will never be. For me, this isn't a business. Its a hobby gone completely off the rails. I turned the neighbors house into a giant chicken coop, and am converting the property across the street this yr. To say that, I would have to sell...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Black one is a black soldier fly. It is a friend. The other one?
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    Is my Blue Orpington actually Lavender, with the shredder gene?

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    Hatching eggs and business advice

    Not mine
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Cut millet for the chickens, cut clover for the chickens, pulled weeds (bet you guessed it) for the chickens, broccoli greens for the chickens. Ate some turkey figs (first three of the yr). Decided not to water, will see if it rains? Checked the patch of sunflowers and wild flowers I planted for...
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    Hatching eggs and business advice

    Central Fl.
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    Hatching eggs and business advice

    Man that hits home! So I sell hatching eggs locally only, and once they leave here, my policy is its your problem! 12 roos your problem, didn't hatch the exact bird from the pictures on the internet, your problem, only one hatched, agian your problem! I hatch my eggs each month, so I know my...
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    Post Your Orpingtons!

    Blu and his ladies.. at 10 months. We had a rooster pulling tail feathers so everyone's tail looks tore up or gone.
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    Is my Blue Orpington actually Lavender, with the shredder gene?

    4got the shredder gene issue. Dont worry about it. I see it in my blue hens who come out very light blue or unlaced. and it shows its self in 1 in 10 splash. Blue also carries a shredder gene, the closer I get to silver white the more it presents. I have brought in 2 lines of blacks to...
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    Is my Blue Orpington actually Lavender, with the shredder gene?

    Blue to blue gives you blue black or splash. You have a very light blue to silver (most likely a pullet) or a splash. These are all chicks from my true blue orpintons. I get 5 different things. Splash, Blue laced (different shades), blue patterned, true blacks (shiny green and teal), blacks...
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    Topic of the Week - When Do Pullets Begin Laying?

    Our orpingtons start 20-30 weeks. Most begin for us at 24ish weeks. Any heritage larger body bird seems to run at least 20+ weeks for us. Speckeled Sussex took 4ever, Marans were average for us. Rainbows took average time but were HUGE hybrids. Some of the hybrids we have raised were laying b4...
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