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    Soft Shell Mania

    Sounds more like a reproductive issue than a calcium deficiency. Ever heard of salpingitis? It’s an infection of the reproductive tract that causes inflammation and generally yucky feeling hens who often have runny poo, dirty butts, odd eggs and lash material (like the first photo). You can...
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    Things you say every year.

    There’s plenty of room between rows, it’ll be fine! Then having to sidestep between and over all the plants. Or my favorite, I’ll remember what these seeds are and where I stored them.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Day 4 of boiling sap, took a few days off due to bad weather. The first batch came out alright I suppose, aside from the first attempt at finding something to set the pots on being burnt in half (in the background). ‘Twas quite smokey but that’s okay as I can use it in a brine for smoking...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    I’ve hatched from shipped eggs 5 times and only one was a complete dud as 4/7 were cracked and the couple that started to develop quit early on. I’d be happy if 3 hatch, pleasantly surprised if I get a 50% hatch rate. I contemplated getting 2 dozen to up my chances of a pure dark Cornish but I’m...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    I like my colored layers but it's hard to get some with decent body size. Hopefully these will get bigger than the tiny cream legbar I bought last spring, she was so petite at maybe 3lbs. But really I have plenty of colored layers to work with as it is and a lot of them are fairly sizable. Maybe...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    A splash Isbar and a royal Sussex. If I didn’t find something I liked it would have been a couple Cornish crosses for a pre-planned chicken fry.
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    Best Chicken and Egg tracking app

    I use Flockstar and it works great for tracking pretty much anything and everything.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    19 yesterday, who doesn’t love speckled eggs? It took my forever to figure out who has been laying the lighter brown one but now I’m pretty sure it’s from a bresse x blue copper maran. The green one has blue spots! Currently up to 12 today despite the slushy/snowy weather coming in. I need to...
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    Buff Cochin?

    Can you get a good pic of the comb? Single comb would be Cochin but a pea comb would be brahma. I think my buff Brahma girl has some brown on her though.
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    What do I doooo??

    Clean it up with warm water and apply antibiotic ointment that doesn’t have any pain relief in it. Chicks are fast healers and if it is still eating and drinking I think it will pull through, though it may only have one eye. You may have to keep that chick separate for a while to prevent the...
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    Ongoing Raccoon Invasion

    First one of the year! I really expected them to be moving when it was above freezing for the last weekish but apparently not. We are at the beginning of another cold spell and this skinny guy showed up. Must of been busy chasing tail but I think the coon breeding season is nearing its end.
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    Help talk me into quail (for meat)

    Changed to pine pellets, took the pebbles out of the water and gave them a proper chick feeder some days ago. They are feathering out well. Two white with black markings, 2 the usual coloring (?) and the white one now has tan markings. Anyone know the proper names for the colors? I’m guessing...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I’ve looked into grafting before but I just never got around to getting some root stock. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to grab a different pear type and graft it so half produces my old tree’s type and the other half the new type. But where to put the new tree(s) where they are out of the way but...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Day 2 of boiling sap, I think I’ve done about 35 gallons so far and have another 35ish sitting in a cooler. Also started some English primrose and zinnia seeds inside. Our pear tree has been looking sad the past few years so I’ve decided to try and clone it with fresh dormant cuttings and...
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    I’m trying but already failing in some areas. Bought 2 chicks to go along with my two impulse incubation chicks (barred rock hen X EE roo) who are all currently in a brooder with my impulse quail… But hey as I always say if I don’t end up liking them I can just eat them later.
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    A Cornish Cross (Breeding?) Journey

    Nope but I have some Plymouth white rocks (4 straight runs) in my Meyer order which is due to arrive a few days after Junior's offspring hatch. I also found an interesting listing on Ebay for eggs out of a breeding pen with white rocks and dark Cornish which I may very well get a dozen of. The...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I know and if I had time I’d be boiling it now. Gotta work all weekend and will have no time to do it till Monday morning. By then I’ll have probably around 60ish gallons? If I continue collecting till next weekend as is my temporary plan I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep up without running...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    First time doing it but I guess they heal up on their own or so the general consensus says from the web.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Not necessarily in the garden but it’s about all I can do right now. First time tapping maple trees and I think I’m in over my head with over 15 gallons in just 24hrs…. I should have only tapped the 4 trees in the yard but no I had to go all out and tap another 15ish others along the woods 🙄
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    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    The third chick died this morning just as I went to help it. It was already gasping for air and once I finally got it out it was still. Poor thing looked perfectly formed but I do wonder if it inhaled some blood or lost too much when it pipped. I suspected something was wrong with this egg early...
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