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  1. Egghead_Jr

    Wyandottes

    Large heads are a good early indicator. Large legs, well spaced, another. Weights at 8 weeks will tell you who to keep and cull also. Build the barn before you paint it.
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    Breeding Project- BLR Wyandotte improvement

    It was nice meeting Joanne yesterday. Picked up her RC Rhode Island Red; Sand Hill Preservation Stock. Very nice birds. What I like about them- Substantial leg, well spaced and yellow. Two Mahogany genes are apparent. Wide body full length. Standard weight birds. No comb sprigs. Needs a...
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    Breeding Project- BLR Wyandotte improvement

    Old photos of BLRW line for future reference. Known issue- Pale legs, thin legs, tendancy knock knee, tail lift and spread. Needed to keep an eye on shafting in red.
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    Might hit 18 F today, -8 C. We'll be below zero again Friday.
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    Breeding Project- BLR Wyandotte improvement

    This thread will be a chronicle of the next two years. It's been a journey improving my small flock of Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. That trip slowed with inbreeding causing a lack of vitality/hatchability and came to an abrupt halt with the death of the breeding cock. First year I only had one...
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    How does rapid growth pass down?

    Hopefully you are correct and it is a faster growing female and not just a second cockerel. Tag it and find out. If it is a pullet then evaluate for any major flaws, if none then breeder! Fast fleshing is a trait of Deleware and New Hampshire. It should be bred for.
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    Maryland Permit to Sell Poultry & Frederick County's Limited Agricultural Activity Questions

    The page I linked has selling of poultry permit information.
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    Maryland Permit to Sell Poultry & Frederick County's Limited Agricultural Activity Questions

    https://mda.maryland.gov/AnimalHealth/pages/poultry.aspx#Register Note that the information is confidential. It has no impact on your local ordinance.
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    Using broiler chickens as egg laying chickens and letting their genes mix in a flock of egg chickens?

    Use what you already have. They will work fine. Select for traits you desire each year and you'll end up with exactly what you want. A hardy, friendly, moderate laying mutt.
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    The Honey Factory

    We had an inch of snow last week and it was 71 F today. Between the wind and rains it's hit or miss on getting things wrapped up in the bee yards. I should have most of it wrapped up over the cold weekend. Last round of OA sublimation is in order too.
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    Question about farm guns?

    Oddly, I've dispatched more poultry predators with a strong single pump pellet gun in .22 cal than anything else. Hatsan 95 is strong enough to take out most pests including moderate size groundhogs. I've taken mink, small raccoon, groundhogs, etc. with mine. If you go this route throw the scope...
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    The Honey Factory

    What an incredible fall flow. Not that I wanted the supers on this long but things got pushed back further than expected. My hives are high elevation and not what I would consider a prime area for honey yet I averaged 100 lbs per hive for the first time ever. I'd pulled summer honey the third...
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    The Honey Factory

    120 lbs is a good haul for a hive. Up in the Northeast Kingdom we don't get that much. Summer honey was near 50 lbs and the goldenrod pull may be 30 lbs. Very cold and wet this past week so I'm not expecting much but they will likely be packing it away this week. I did a round of Oxalic this...
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    The Honey Factory

    You don't have Joe Pye weed or loosestrife? That's what the bees were on, Joe Pye is ending. Knapweed is starting but we don't have much of that. Again, I can't tell if they wait for Joe Pye to end then move to goldenrod or if they are waiting for a certain variety to bloom. Have had blooming...
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    The Honey Factory

    The musty, locker room odor started emitting from the hives today. The fall flow has begun! Seems I pulled the summer honey just in time.
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    The Honey Factory

    Washboarding- The anti robbing scent makes the most sense to me. Folks in the South that experience a summer dearth and then a fall flow say the bees washboard at the start of both dearths.
  17. Egghead_Jr

    The Honey Factory

    What's your theory on the behavior?
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    The Honey Factory

    Did some bee lining this afternoon with the boy. We could only find two honey bees in 40 minutes of looking, swashed one on the bee box lid. Set up the box anyway not thinking we'd get the lone bee to return. Within an hour we had a hundred bees oriented to our location and bee lining 87...
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    The Honey Factory

    If a person wanted plastic for supers Acorn sells boxes of of 72 medium drone frames for $144 plus shipping. That's for the heavy wax. https://www.acornbee.com/collections/drone-combs/products/acorn-drone-comb?variant=43431770947812 Those would draw out fast and hold a lot of honey. And they'd...
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    The Honey Factory

    Mann lake super kits come with rite cell foundation. It's excellent stuff, well coated with wax and deep cells. I use a lot of rite cell in the brood chambers and it's what I cut in half for open frame ends the bees draw drone comb in. For honey supers I use Permadent foundaiton from Mann Lake...
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