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[Chickielady]

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Since you are a farm, you should be able to buy wholesale!!

LOOK:: MY Icees..........

I charge $3.50 per dozen and some people still complain. I tell them I have yet to cover the price of the food I feed them at that price. I've been keeping track of chicks, chickens, feed, wormer and wood shavings, and the money I get from all the eggs we sell, and I am still over $700 on the wrong side (and that is not counting coops, waterers, feeders....)

My big incubator, and the hatching incubator (not counting the heat lamps) have been clocked at $60 a month on the "kill-a-watt" device we bought.
It plugs into the wall, then you plug your appliance into it.
It has a digital read out of how many watts used/in 24/or weekly, etc.
DH figured $60 a month at least.
Running them for just a few eggs is dumb....

 

[Chickielady]

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We have a wildview, several styles, and got it from Cabela's, who is having alot of hunting stuff on sale lately..try Cabela's.com

 

[Chickielady]

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X2, and looked for her last eve, no sign of her.
Hope it was not a horrible experience!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Oh no!
I cannot sleep or even lie down with knees up as it puts pressure on the back.
You do have a recliner don't you?
All the mens in my family with backs out always sleep in the recliner, seems to 'hug' and support better...hope you get better fast!

Yes I have a recliner. I like many people with low back problems find that (in bed) it is best to lay on my back and put something under my knees.

 

[Chickielady]

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I never heard they were discarded, that they were allowed to nurse & the urine collected in a bag, and the mare free ranging.
I researched this in the 60s when birth control pills came out...all birth control are PMU.
I went to facilities, and they were as they said.
Have you heard otherwise?
So, where do they get Progesterone ???
Oh maybe I do not want to know!

Stallions?
Bulls?
The same mares?

Birth control is not PMU. While at one point they may have been, synthetic hormones are cheaper (and not from urine) and have been the go-to progesterone source for most drugs for years.

They originally were, back in the 60s way before computers, and I protested & went to farms to see...
They did indeed keep their horses very clean & comfortable.
Since then, the world has changed & now we use "Biodenticals" as 4,3,2,1 has said.
I have to have them (hormones) as I had my Ovs removed years ago.
So, I am looking into the progesterone instead of conjugated estrogens,,,,hope it works for me!
Good luck on your tests & home work!

 

[Chickielady]

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Oh no!
I cannot sleep or even lie down with knees up as it puts pressure on the back.
You do have a recliner don't you?
All the mens in my family with backs out always sleep in the recliner, seems to 'hug' and support better...hope you get better fast!

Yes I have a recliner. I like many people with low back problems find that (in bed) it is best to lay on my back and put something under my knees.

DH lies flat, and puts a rolled up bath towel behind his lower back...

 

[AriLovesChickens]

When I had trouble with my back, I got used to sleeping only on my side.

 

[Chickielady]

Well, my connectivity is so super slow I have not been able to read e-mail..it is driving me crazy sitting here waiting 2-3 minutes or more for a page to come up.
So, I am gonna log out & be back later.
First, CR:: get better!!!

Ari::: Cannot you find someone close to donate eggs?
Try Rain Wolf?
I am not sure where you are...maybe Snohomish area (Eagle2026, Tailfeatherz1 ?)
Or drive around to Monroe (WA4-HPoultryMom, MonicaS and others..Greg?)
Anyone can also mail you some eggs to hatch, just pay shipping ($15) ?

It froze here enough to put 1/2" thick ice on the water bowls outdoors, so time to put the water bowls INSIDE the coops.
Frost is thick on the pumpkins....
We have errands to run and then MUST get our butts in gear on the pump house or our water system WILL freeze.
So, C-Ya all later~~

RFF::: Hope you & baby are OK, we are all worried about your first & now second day away from her...

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Without something between theknees to keep things in line that is the worst way.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

CL thanks for the reminder. I guess since we had 21 overnight. Maybe I better go put the heat lanps in the pump house.