chicken hawk 33
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- Nov 4, 2015
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no I didntGet your home videos migrated to DVDs. I wouldn't call them goals but each time I hit another thousand, I'm pleased. It isn't the system that motivates me but I feel like the system should be for helpful posts, not necessarily what one likes to read. I can post a joke and it will get a couple ovates and the same day post a lengthy well thought out complete explanation of the issue at hand and no ovates. Imagine that. Like I said, it's mostly what people like to read rather than good information that isn't necessarily fun to look at. I wasn't ever aware of the system for a long time till someone on the Old Folks Home mentioned it. I looked it up and realized I already had a bunch. Not silly. What I like is to get an ovation for something helpful I posted over a year ago and someone had researched the topic and appreciated the information they received. Roo damage and possibly beginning to molt on the neck. Do the other feathers look neat or a bit scruffy? When did you increase the protein and with what? From what total % crude protein to what %? They likely won't come back completely till after molt. Trios will always have that kind of damage. I try to only have hens in trios for about a month at most. I can't do that now because my hen to rooster ratio is way off due to predation. I have one pair and a house with 9 hens and 2 roosters. Those are all problems for that kind of damage. I might try to separate all hens with damage from the flocks and let the roosters override their less favorites till I can grow out some more pullets. Trouble is, my oldest batch of chicks is mostly cockerels. Ideally you want 10-12 hens or more per rooster to prevent that kind of damage. If you go too far above that, you could have fertility issues. My goal is to have trios and a couple flocks of 1:7 ratios and a house just for hens where I can rotate in and out of the other units. Translate what? But the feathers are missing in front of the neck. Good idea. I could build a 12 volt DC incubator and run it on solar/wind. That's too bad. I have to say I'm not surprised. These aren't poultry eggs. This species eggs should be buried under about 6 inches of loose, moist soil and stay there till the turtles emerge on their own. If they were where they should have been this entire time, you couldn't possibly know if they were developing or had died. The only activity you should have regarding the nest is to build a cage to go over the nest area that is predator proof but allow the babies to emerge. I'm glad your birthday went well. I hope you got a hamster. Isn't that the truth. From one babbler to another. I'm glad it went well. My dad once put his fishing rods in the trunk with the trunk lid tied open. He hit a bump and they got snapped off. I once put my rods on the ground behind the car till I could get the trunk keys. Then I got preoccupied, thought I was packed, got in the car and backed over them. Chemotherapy? I think for guys like us, we need to start by isolating the experiments. Not doing an AA and cooling test with the same eggs. I've decided not to do any cooling over what happens with a candling or transferring of eggs. This experiment will be just for ascorbic acid dips. I don't even think I have enough eggs in there to do that justice. I don't have enough hens now to do it right. All the chicks I'm hatching this summer should all be laying early next year so that would be a good time to test again. That's why I love a real keyboard. Mine always used to say, "do we really need more chicken?" She has reluctantly given up. She does complain when there aren't enough eggs for a batch of deviled eggs or when she thinks we're low and I sell some. Mine wouldn't understand that either. Love the tomato ducks. Here's my stone duck.That nest or the occupier wouldn't last seconds after dusk here. That is a great theory. Hello. Beer's not just for breakfast any more.
