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  1. Clay Valley Farmer

    What drill or tool for rotary plucker?

    True, and wet and electric don't go well togeter unless you plug it into a GFI circuit.
  2. Clay Valley Farmer

    What drill or tool for rotary plucker?

    It is hard service on a drill. They really are not designed for 100 duty cycle and sidways loading of the chuck. The bargin brand drills are not likely going to stand up to much of this kind of work but on the other hand it is a shame to mess up a good drill. It really does not take a lot to...
  3. Clay Valley Farmer

    Convincing someone home slaughtered birds are more sanitary and safer to eat

    With our laws in Ontario I think you can be charged for just thinking about selling on farm processed livestock. But if it were possible to do so, I would rather try to find the right market rather than try to change the views of those opposed. There are lots of people that have their heads...
  4. Clay Valley Farmer

    Raising turkeys for the very first time

    One thing to considder is that if you get them in mid May the heritage turkeys will still be pretty scrawny at Thanksgiving, you would be lucky to have the toms yield much more than 10lb dressed. On the other hand the production breeds would be huge unless you put them in the freezer ahead of...
  5. Clay Valley Farmer

    When will my Narrs start to lay?

    Likely in a month or two as the days get longer and it warms up. I'm waiting on some of mine too which were hatched april/may of last year.
  6. Clay Valley Farmer

    Brooding & Raising CX with Layers - will the CX crush the layers?

    As long as there is a enough space and heat, the CX and smaller traditional chicks will do fine together. Feed can be an issue depending on what you favor on medicated starter. Many people keep regular egg layer chicks on medicated feed 8-12 weeks. If you do feed the CX medicated to start you...
  7. Clay Valley Farmer

    Bird processing

    Hmmmm. 30 birds in an hour and 10 of those are ducks. That would be 2 min a piece... I know it would take me a lot longer than that. Even set up fairly well with electric plucker and propane scalder. For someone newer to processing 10 min a bird would be good going and if they were hand...
  8. Clay Valley Farmer

    I need some turkey help please

    Quote: I am not sure of the comman name for the breed you want, but in latin its gallopava unobtainablis. Unfortunatly it is very rare and despite extensive searching and several dead end leads I have not been able to locate any yet. Seriously though, The breeds that give classic table...
  9. Clay Valley Farmer

    Info on meat turkeys

    When you say bang for the buck, that to me is saying what will produce the most meat on the least food. Heritage turkeys will do better if you are expecting them to find their own food for any substantial portion of their diet but they take 3 times as long to grow and take a lot more food to get...
  10. Clay Valley Farmer

    Diseases chicken spread? Risk of illness??

    If anything exposing the children to natural levels of germs is likely to help them develop normal immune systems. Chickens can and do harbour bacteria that can be passed to humans, but it is nothing basic soap and water handwashing and reasonable comon sense supervision and education of...
  11. Clay Valley Farmer

    Want to get turkeys but we have a dog

    Quote: Agree, it it might take quite a bit of work but I am sure the dog can be put in it's place such it won't dare touch a bird. A shock collar could be a tool used in the training, but on it's own it's not likely going to work unless there is change in the way the dog sees it's position...
  12. Clay Valley Farmer

    Please share the best tips for raising organic, pastured Cornish X

    I tried feeding them a whole grain diet, and they did not do that well. growth was much slower, though they did finnish out big after 12 weeks. Problem though was losses were high from digestive related problems. Organic pastured Cornish X is a bit like driving screws with a hammer, it can be...
  13. Clay Valley Farmer

    Raising Meaties and Standard Breeds?

    As long as they have enough space the standards make out just fine and they make up for lack of size with ninja like agility which messes with the meaties little brains.
  14. Clay Valley Farmer

    New chick dying...please help! She is very critical

    Heat, water and food energy, sounds like you have those covered. Beyond that there is not much to do but hope for the best and be prepared for the worst. Vitamins, different stress formulas and such are fine for recovery but in the case of an ICU chick they are not what is going to make the...
  15. Clay Valley Farmer

    Homemade Deer Repellant-

    Dog hair works too, even more so when it is still attached to the dog.
  16. Clay Valley Farmer

    Battery powered incubator?

    It would not be hard to convert an incubator to 12 volts, just use a 35W 12volt accesory light or something like that small 12 volt fans can be had from CPU coolers. Trouble though is a full sized car battery even in good condition and fully charged will have less than 1kwh of storage so it...
  17. Clay Valley Farmer

    Air Rifle Hunting

    If I did such a thing, I sure would not post about it. In the eyes of todays lawmakers (at least in our area) that stuff could get you 2 years for animal cruelty plus fire arms or weapons charges. Not so long ago ago a guy killed a racoon with a shovel and had the book thrown at him including...
  18. Clay Valley Farmer

    Are you kidding me?! Drano requires ID!

    99.99 plus % of the people that buy these products do so with full intention of using them for what they were designed for, the 0.01% or less that would ever do wrong with them; (a) either don't care that they would need to show ID or more likely (b) will simply shop lift or do a little B&E to...
  19. Clay Valley Farmer

    1/2 my new flock died during the travel...can I eat them?

    We also snared rabbits as kids, they were never bled out and were fine... well sort of as long as you didn't mind the taste of pine needles and spruce gum.
  20. Clay Valley Farmer

    1/2 my new flock died during the travel...can I eat them?

    Same here, as a kid we processed grouse and ducks hours after they were killed, sometimes not until the next morning, never hurt us. Granted this is not the way to produce best quality meat and any lawyer, doctor or food inspecter will tell you otherwise just to cover butt. Most people are...
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