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SillyChicken said:
We tested the cream separator with some whole milk.. It worked.. But the real test will be to see if it worked with the goats milk... And the babies are due in April! So no milk till then!
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My kids are due in April. I actually felt kid movement on both pregnant does this morning, quite exciting! Biotracking definitely wasn't wrong!
 
swampducks said:
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MY thermometer than I use with my hova bator, the red liquid kind has separated and I can't get the fluid to reintegrate! I have to buy a new thermometer and have no idea where to get one around here! Would an instant read cooking thermometer work just to get an idea if I've gotten it within the right range? It starts at 0 and goes to 220. It's reading room temperature right now.

Dang it, Walmart is a 35 mile drive! And I bet all of theirs are for cooking!
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I feel your pain, I had thermometer that came with my incubator (I didn't trust). So I bought a new one off of Amazon that did humidity and temp. There was 5 degrees difference between the two thermometers, so now I don't trust either. Long story short, not a single egg hatched. So now I'm going to buy one of these thermometers that people here have been talking about. I still have one hope for this year and that is a broody hen who has been sitting on her eggs for 1 1/2 weeks to 2 weeks. I have my fingers and toes crossed. I now need to build a ramp for the little ones because the older ones just jump up to the nesting boxes.
 
We had 11 kids already and 5 more does still to kid...and the does who already kidded are bred back for july/august kids so we should have milk right thru winter, which will be nice.
 
my pheasants have been courting forever...they dont stop...but no eggs yet...however...my friend in ma said he got his first pheasant egg...and there in four feet of snow...so it should be soon....im getting egggcited
 
Stacykins said:
Breeding does immediately after kidding? That isn't exactly a practice that benefits a doe's long term health.
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They were not bred immediately after kidding they were bred two months after kidding and did not have kids on them. After they kid in july/august they will have a 4-5 month break...before the last kidding they had a full year. Their long term health is just fine, we are setting them up for rotated breeding for the dairy herd as all large dairy herds do.
 
birdman55 said:
my pheasants have been courting forever...they dont stop...but no eggs yet...however...my friend in ma said he got his first pheasant egg...and there in four feet of snow...so it should be soon....im getting egggcited
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My pheasant just started courting last week, I've been supplementing their food with oyster shell, so they'll have good egg shells when the time comes. I'm also eggcited!
 
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