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It got unusually cold here the past few nites. So I put up a clamp on light for heat. Well it must have got knocked down on the floor and it burnt a 6 inch hole right through a 3/4 inch piece of plywood. I do not know what kept it from buning the whole coop down. I now have it so if it comes...

I sell them for 2$ dz. Minus the .25cents if they bring a carton. I think it is just the idea of getting a discount. Because, I have had people call and want me to hold eggs for them until they saved up some cartons. I only sell from my house and I always wash the cartons when I get them. I...

I have 23 hens at home and we do not eat that many eggs. So I placed and ad on Craigslist. And started selling a few. But, not near enough, I was slowly getting more eggs than I could sell. So I started giving people .25cents off each dz. if they would bring me an emply carton. It has made a big...

You can mix your order with MM. When I orderd my hens I got Red sex links, Black sex links and RIR.

Great first time. You did the right thing. I will add a couple of things. As the others have said skin the front and back legs down a little first, go ahead and split it down the middle on the belly side, (just the skin not the inside) and then hang it up from the back legs. That will make it...

I agree let it sit for a little while. The first turkey I processed, I cooked it that same day and it was a little tuff. Looking back now it still had rigimortis. Its legs were sticking straight up while it was in the somker. Next time I am going to let it stay in the frig for a couple of days.

I had a funny quail hatch. I had 30 bobwhite eggs 14 hatched right on time. I left the other eggs in the incubator for two more days and when I went to clean out the incubator, I picked up one of the eggs that had piped but not hatched. As I picked off a little more of the shell I heard the...

I have 30 due to hatch tomorrow. If they hatch like my courtnix I am going to have to build a big cage. Congrats on your hatch.

I just finished hatching 26 out of 30. They hatched on the 17th morning. I kept my humidity between 50-55% and raisied it to 70% when I took them out of the turner on day 14.

Thanks for the nice comments. I wanted to post an update. 26 out of 30 have hatched so far. I am so excited. I hope my bob white eggs hatch as good as these coturnix. Now I am going to have to build them a cage.

Look what is going on at our house. I bought 30 coturnix and 30 bob white eggs from GQF. I cannot say enough about the quality of there eggs. Not a single egg was broke. I am using the hovabator thermal air incubator with turner and using a LG for my hatcher since the two birds have different...

That must have been what was wrong with my turkey. I slaughterd my first turkey yesterday morning. After he was cleaned I put him in ice water for 2 hrs and then I put him on the smoker. He had a good flavor but it was a little tuff. So I ended up cutting it up in small pieces and making bar-bque.

OOPs. I was so excited to add that info, I just glanced through the tread. An upright probably is easier to pack full and still find everything.

Something I have not seen mentioned is that the chest freezers are a lot more efficient. When you open an upright freezer all the cold air rushes out the bottom of the freezer. With a chest the cold air stays at the bottom. With electricity rates going up it is something to think about. I use...

I orderd the plan book for the whiz bang and it states you need to use alot more plucking fingers for Quail. It stated you needed aleast 150 in just the round table on the bottom.

we now have 4 hatched and 2 more piped. I am stuck at work until 0800 in the morning. I keep calling home and getting updated. It is going to make for a longer than normal day.

OOPS, I went to take my egss out of the turner this a.m. and there was a little chic laying on the turner. I guess the female Guinea was sitting on the eggs longer than I thought. So I added the water to bring my humidity up and took them out of the turner. Out of 9 eggs two have hatched and two...

I am having the same problem. I went to wal-mart and bought a springfield themometer so I could have a hygrometer and it is reading 101.2 and my other digital themometer is reading 100.1 I do not know which one to go by. I have a still air hovabator.

we had six hatch on saturday. they are very small. not much bigger than a golf ball.

that is cool, I have 20 that are coming out of the turner today. I will let you know how it goes.