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[donnie]

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You just missed some good ones at the last Blanchard auction. Several of us split a box of 15 LF silver-laced chicks. The Jarvises sold three HUGE buff hens and a very nice trio of partridge at the auction. I bought 1 buff to use as a broody. Karl and Stephanie have gold-laced and maybe more.

Dang , but that's ok I need hens that are 6 months to 1.5 years old , laying is what I need them to do lol

 

[mjgigax]

BTW - Good Morning and Afternoon,
I have been outside with the chickens and in the garden since 7:00. I went out with my coffee to check the coops and started gardening while I was there. It was 9:00 before I realized I was still in my P.J.s. After lunch we did go on a shopping run and now i finally am sitting down to eat steak and raspberries. I've got alot to do before POOPS.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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that dang auto cerected swap berry for verry and st for at

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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hey i have golden laced and my golden partege progect

here is the golden partrege

and the golden laced

 

[banjoejoe4783]

donnie there was 4 verry nice buff hens at the auction and i have some eggs you could get

 

[donnie]

Yeah I have to have pure colors because I will be using them for a project just for the coloring alone

 

[poultryand bees]

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White pus is very bad stuff, if it is thick stuff. You can try and treat with injectable penicillan - you can't give penicillan orally to rabbits because it messes with their digestive system and is usually fatal. I inject it subcutaneously in the back of the neck. Be sure you isolate that one from all your other rabbits until you get it cleared up. Check her ears and her teeth since an infection in those can travel to the eye. If you had some Baytril, I would suggest crushing up half a tablet and mixing it with some pumpkin and giving it to the rabbit.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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I know! They likely do this during the week when we're at work. It was about 20 ft from the house when I first saw it.

Is he dead now?


Don

I can hope. When I fired the shot off, it jumped and hauled butt. Didn't find it, so I really don't know.

 

[banjoejoe4783]

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hey hey hey man my golden laced are as pure as they get !!!!! and came for a verry repitable breeder in mardrowe OK i have not personaly seen any better only in pics ---but the golden parterage is only a progect color that is looking verry well and breeding true if you do not whant to acseped my offer just say no thanks

 

[nnbreeder]

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Well with it being Sat. Afternoon, it may be awhile before you get many replies. I have heard many good things about the GQF.
I myself don't own one..I prefer to build my own..I just don't have the kind of money it takes to buy a GQF..
Mine work just as well for about a 1/3 the cost..
So anyway just keep checking in. But like I said it may be late tonight, and you may have to ask again like tomorrow..


Don

Honestly, if I could have had a GQF to model an incubator after, I would have built my own and made a couple changes. Better insulation, and I would have put a fan and heating element top and bottom...if you can get one of the bigger fans out of a refrigerator that went bad, you can get everything else you need to build a nice cabinet incubator for around $60-$75.....I would also put a small door in the top so you can open that to add water, instead of opening the big front door. There is a guy on ebay, from over in western oklahoma that builds and sells some pretty nice incubators for around $250.....he has some cool ideas on his as well...

We have a hatcher and a bator both by GQF and we like them. Very reliable and at times ours runs constantly for year after year. This is the first year of many that they have been shut down. Oh and we have hatched everything from Cockatiels to geese with no problems.

Ok now to the nuts and bolts. GQF actually makes a humidity tray with a float in them that is connected to an outside bucket with a hose. No opening of the door to service this.

In my mind only the top would be the best for the element and the thermostat and here is why. At the top the heat would build rather quickly and it would keep the temp more steady once it was evened out. A heating element on the bottom would try to build heat all the way to the top if it were thermostated seperatly.

Now if tied into the thermostat with the top element then it could make the upper levels way to hot as the heat from the bottom element would still be arriving after both elements were shut down.

Personally if I were to build an incubator I would copy Al's design. Looks good and pops them chicks out on a regular basis.