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    How much water?

    @Hokum Coco and @laughingdog Thanks guys! This gives me a rough idea of what size I should start with.
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    How much water?

    How much water will a dozen pigeons drink in a day? Wondering what size container to get... A quart, gallon, two gallons??
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    Toulouse Geese Thread

    Okay, Thank you Linda!
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    Toulouse Geese Thread

    Can anyone who has experience hatching Toulouse tell me how many days it takes for their eggs to hatch? I keep getting mixed results from places I'm reading online. Some I'm finding say 28 days some say 30...?
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    What are you canning now?

    I have never heard of "dry packing." I have heard of a raw pack in which you do not add liquid to the uncooked meat, but I have never heard of a dry pack with cooked meat?
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    @Kassaundra , @hellbender , @osbmail Thanks for the replies. I will plan on giving them a try this weekend then!
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    I have some that are 9 weeks old that I would really like to try and caponize. Do you think that they are too old? For future reference what has everybody here decided is the "best" age to caponize?
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    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    I just found this video... I have read through most of this thread and from what I can tell it seems to show the process very well. Those of you who have caponized (I have not done the procedure) how well do you think this video shows the steps? The only thing that I can see he does different...
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    "Can This Be Canned" Question

    You know that you can't taste Botulism, right? If it's not in the Ball Blue book, or the NCHFP website then I personally don't can it...
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    The safety of hoop houses for meat birds

    yeah, they should feather out but their feathers don't always seem as nice as the layers. Mine also wouldn't go in and out of the coop like layers, but they do seem fairly active and do a good job of eating down the grass in their tractor even though I move it everyday (Maybe their level of...
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    Dying - first time meat birds

    X2 on eviemethugh's post especially on making them go out. I would add that you need healthy chicks to start (I love love love http://www.schlechthatchery.com/ and they are cheap too!) Also, don't feed twice a day. Give them full access to feed for the first 2-3 weeks. After 2-3 weeks give them...
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    First Chickens--What Supplies Do I Need?

    I don't usually medicate either, (nor do I have many who get ill and would need it anyways) but I like to keep some vitamin/electrolyte/probiotic powder on hand to mix in their water during times of stress...
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    The safety of hoop houses for meat birds

    I don't think that you really can make a hoop-house secure from predators; if they want in they will find a way, most likely will just dig under. I built one portable pen that had a solid area for them to sleep in like you mentioned, but by the time I built a "secure" area with solid walls...
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    The decomposition steps of castrating a cockerel ((GRAPHIC PICS!!!))

    I can't see any of the pictures of the procedure on his first post?
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    "Graphic pics of my day learning to caponize"

    I am going through the thread (link to post #1 here) and copy/pasting all the relevant info to this page(the thread is currently over 200 pgs long... after just 20 some pages I was already sick of A.) reading a few posts and then having to hit "next page," and B.) having to read through all the...
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