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brightpennies said:
@spangles403, I am also in Centre County, State College area. Unfortunately I already placed several absurdly large orders and it's too late to add any, but are you nearby? You might be able to get some through chick days at Wiscoy (people share orders all the time because the order minimum is too big for the township ordinances). I don't remember if they stock Australorps but it's worth looking into as one option. Are you in the area?
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Yes, I am close to State College. I have been to Wiscoy for Fromm dog food I will ask them. Thanks!
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
Not sure about these turkey eggs, I tried to candle them prematurely tonight, and I will try again tomorrow. I'm not seeing much activity. Am I Supposed to see veining? Or a blob? Itis only day 8, but I will be out of town from Sunday night until Tuesday morning. I hope she gets at least one turkey or two. Other wise I will have to bother Dheltzel again.
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Give it a few more days. If they are still clear, we can meet sometime to swap them with some that are close to hatching. I have too many turkey eggs incubatong right now. Not much interest in the poults in January and I wasn't planning to raise dozens of them myself, so if your broody will look after a couple for a few weeks, everyone wins.
 
dheltzel said:
Give it a few more days. If they are still clear, we can meet sometime to swap them with some that are close to hatching. I have too many turkey eggs incubatong right now. Not much interest in the poults in January and I wasn't planning to raise dozens of them myself, so if your broody will look after a couple for a few weeks, everyone wins.
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Sounds like a plan! Thanks again. Hope your family enjoyed the bacon, going to have some myself today!
 
Hi, I was wondering if someone could suggest some remedies for mites. I've never had any birds with mites before (except a couple free chickens and rooster we got from a friend's relative had scaly leg mites. They weren't that bad and we were able to get them to clear up quickly.)

Someone's pet duck showed up in our duck pen the other day. We were able to catch it and separate it from our birds and do a quick health check. The duck has no fat on it whatsoever and it looks like it started to break down muscle for calories. The duck also has a MAJOR mite infestation, but otherwise looks pretty healthy. So far I've dusted it thoroughly with DE and gave it some water, corn, and fermented feed (with garlic, cayenne pepper, oregano oil, and ACV). We had an extra coop outside so we put it in that for nights and in the morning we dust it with DE again and put it in a tarp covered wire cage with some straw.
There only seemed to be a couple mites on it this morning before we dusted it again, while the first night you couldn't move the ducks feathers without a bunch scrambling for cover. So I think the DE is working but wanted to know if there's anything else I could do. I want to get rid of them quickly because it seems to be bothered by them a lot as well as I don't want them to spread to our birds.

So far I've contacted a couple people with birds around us to see if they're missing any birds. I'm also checking some local classifieds both in papers and online and I'm going to be placing some online classifieds next week if I still can't find the ducks owners. I'm thinking it might of been dumped, if we haven't found the owners in 2 months we'll probably keep it since it's so pretty and nice.


If you know anyone in or around Hunlock Creek (NE, PA) who is missing a duck message me with its:
BREED
COLOR
GENDER
APPROX. AGE
HOW LONG IT'S BEEN GONE
AND PICS OF IT OR IT'S SIBLINGS (if possible)


Thanks,
Brenna
 
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Anyone know where to get some turkeys? I can't incubate right now (no incubator at the moment), and I am located in Schuylkill County. I keep looking on craigslist, but most of them are full grown and we are looking for littles ones to raise.
 
theemerichfam said:
Anyone know where to get some turkeys? I can't incubate right now (no incubator at the moment), and I am located in Schuylkill County. I keep looking on craigslist, but most of them are full grown and we are looking for littles ones to raise.
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I have 14 eggs in the incubator right now, due to hatch in 2 weeks. They're Bourbon reds and red bronze. Not sure how far you are from me but I'm in cambria county
 

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