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chicapee said:
@scflock Here is one of my fellas with his crooked comb and boots with the fur. Do you think the comb will straighten out?

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In my experience, the crooked and floppy Combs only get worse as they get bigger. Looks like I have four roosters in the first batch, so I should have plenty of experience to let you know more in a few months :gig
Sales continued again today. Five silkies, and D'uccle trio. This has been my second biggest weekend of the year. Now I am working on switching all of my coops to PVC feeders. Trying to make things as simple as I can, because before long it will be dark when I leave for work and dark when I get home
 
scflock said:
In my experience, the crooked and floppy Combs only get worse as they get bigger. Looks like I have four roosters in the first batch, so I should have plenty of experience to let you know more in a few months
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Sales continued again today. Five silkies, and D'uccle trio. This has been my second biggest weekend of the year. Now I am working on switching all of my coops to PVC feeders. Trying to make things as simple as I can, because before long it will be dark when I leave for work and dark when I get home
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I've always used regular gravity feeders from the feed stores, and always had a lot of waste. I made a copy of a PVC gravity feeder I saw on BYC a couple weeks ago, out of 4" pipe & a "Y", and the waste has gone to ZIP! Been in use about 10 days now & haven't had to refill yet.
 
kwhites634 said:
I've always used regular gravity feeders from the feed stores, and always had a lot of waste. I made a copy of a PVC gravity feeder I saw on BYC a couple weeks ago, out of 4" pipe & a "Y", and the waste has gone to ZIP! Been in use about 10 days now & haven't had to refill yet.
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That's exactly what I'm doing. Making 14 of them
ETA: sold enough chickens this weekend to pay for the supplies :thumbsup
 
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chicapee said:
I use oxine. What is going on with your hatch?
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What is oxine? Is it at the farm store? I was hoping to use some soap, bleach, vinegar or something I have at home.

As for the eggs I dont know what happened. I am thinking either they weren't fertile or my thermometers were off. Kinda bummed not a single one from my first incubation attempt. We had duck eggs for breakfast yesterday and saw my first "bullseye" so maybe something from the next batch.
 
OldMissionChick said:
What is oxine? Is it at the farm store? I was hoping to use some soap, bleach, vinegar or something I have at home.

As for the eggs I dont know what happened. I am thinking either they weren't fertile or my thermometers were off. Kinda bummed not a single one from my first incubation attempt. We had duck eggs for breakfast yesterday and saw my first "bullseye" so maybe something from the next batch.
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http://www.amazon.com/Oxine-Animal-Health-AH-Gallon/dp/B000HT7H8W

It's great stuff.
 
OldMissionChick said:
What is oxine? Is it at the farm store? I was hoping to use some soap, bleach, vinegar or something I have at home.

As for the eggs I dont know what happened. I am thinking either they weren't fertile or my thermometers were off. Kinda bummed not a single one from my first incubation attempt. We had duck eggs for breakfast yesterday and saw my first "bullseye" so maybe something from the next batch.
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Sorry about the hatch, hopefully it will be great next time.
 

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