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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    I don’t know if you have any similar services over there but over here in Indiana USA. Perdue University will do a necropsy on up to 6 birds for $66 USD and tell you what killed them. I haven’t needed the service but it comes up in local Facebook groups and people seem to think it’s worth the price
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    Wrath's Marans

    Did you set more eggs or just split the ones you already had going across more incubators for sorting purposes?
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    We sent 11 cockerels to freezer camp this morning. They were a little smaller than I wanted but I’m glad to have them off the feed bill and off the chore list. It only took a little over an hour to get them on ice. I saw a red fox in my back yard this morning. When it saw me it walked across...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    The crooked toed cockerel is starting to shape up fairly well. He is still smaller than the other one but he is putting on weight pretty well. He does have the straightest keel of any of the five Bresse. His earlobes are the whitest of any of the five birds. He is going to get a pardon and will...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I have an MRI scheduled for Wednesday and a dr appointment for Tuesday the 18th. I’m off work until at least my next Dr appointment. Physically I feel like it’s going in the right direction. As long as I’m wearing a brace I can walk without pain but when I take the brace off the knee doesn’t...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    On Thursday morning I slipped and fell and twisted my right knee. X-ray didn’t show and new bone damage just some arthritis, possible loose bodies, and scar tissue from a previous injury. I’m off work and waiting for insurance to OK an MRI. My wife has taken over chicken chores This morning I...
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    Wrath's Marans

    You all need to stop talking turkey around here. My wife mentioned them last week now you’re all talking about them. I was considering adding a smaller bird like quail and everyone is swaying my mind to going bigger. I think if I were to add turkey I would go with broad breasted and just do one...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    I’m definitely thankful that past me had the foresight to measure the trailer when I was building the coop.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Yesterday was coop cleaning day and a couple pictures of Jersey Gena who is going through a pretty hard molt
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    Wrath's Marans

    Those eggs don’t even count. Everyone knows you can’t count your eggs before they hatch.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Fall weather has arrived. Suddenly filling four feeder and 5 drinkers that are spread across the 2 acre property isn’t as much fun as I thought it would be when I was setting eggs in July.
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    Wrath's Marans

    I will be here to support my friend in his time of need. This is my first time attending such an event. Should I bring a gift? Would one dozen hatching eggs be an appropriate gift?
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    incubator of the home-made kind

    I have had some success with a homemade incubator but things were pretty inconsistent so I have switched to a little giant incubator I got purchased used for a good price. Is hard to make any specific suggestions without knowing exactly what your working with so I’ll just share some general...
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    Help me decide which chickens to keep and get next - breeding for rainbow eggs.

    I grew up fishing for keep so the act of taking a life for food was part of my life from as far back as I remember. I originally thought I might feel differently about an animal that I raised but honestly when the time came it wasn’t nearly as difficult as I had made it to be in my head The...
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    Help me decide which chickens to keep and get next - breeding for rainbow eggs.

    Cull means to remove them from the breeding program. Cockerels that aren’t good enough to breed are usually grown out to butcher weight and sent to freezer camp. Pullets that aren’t worthy of breeding but also don’t have any faults that compromise their health can be kept as breakfast egg...
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