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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: egg bound
« on: May 22, 2013, 10:37:51 AM »
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Breeding / Re: Chick phenotype
« on: March 05, 2013, 10:20:53 AM »
Mike, That makes a lot of sense about adding another line of birds to your flock and risk changing the characteristics of how it may effect the phenotype on chicks you have worked on for years. I never thought of it that way. I guess that comes from experience.
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Frontline for mites and/or lice
« on: March 01, 2013, 05:12:04 PM »
Sharon, You aroused my curiosity, I looked on my bottle of frontline that I just bought. there was no expiration date that I can find on it.
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Breeding / Re: Determining Gender in Brown Red Chicks
« on: February 26, 2013, 07:38:03 PM »
Sharon , My brother told me a long time ago to study the chicks from your own breeding lines, and from evaluation over the years you will be able to determine desirable characteristics you wish to keep. The more you study the better you can evaluate your chicks at a younger age. If the chick you had in the picture was from my breeding line, it probably would have been a Splash. I guess it shows Blues can be all over the board when it comes to color from light blue to almost black with blue on the chest.
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Suggestions and pictures for how to build coops/runs
« on: February 18, 2013, 07:01:11 PM »
Bonnie, The staples you described are the ones John mentioned in answer to your post. They are called cable staples and are about 3/4" wide and 1-1/4" long. I looked on Ace Hardware website, but did not find them. If you have a Do it Best hardware or lumberyard near by they should be able to order them for you if they don't stock them. The SKU # is 501013. They come in boxes of 100 with a suggested retail of $7.19. I hope this helps.
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Suggestions and pictures for how to build coops/runs
« on: February 17, 2013, 07:15:40 PM »
Do it Best Hardware has a 3/4 inch galv poultry netting staple in 1# boxes. The SKU # is 720722 and a suggested retail of $ 3.79 a box. If your local Do it Best does not stock this item, they can order this item by one box at a time or larger multiples.
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Breeding / Re: Determining Gender in Brown Red Chicks
« on: February 08, 2013, 09:10:10 AM »
Sharon, Just looking at your 2 pictures I would say the chick looks like a Splash, not a Blue. Maybe the lighting in the picture is fooling me, but that would be my guess.
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Custom Incubators
« on: February 05, 2013, 10:33:33 PM »
John, As the old saying goes, you can't count your chickens before they are hatched. But by your picture you can sure count them now! Great job on the incubators and hatchers and your first hatch, even with all of the obstacles you mentioned.
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Breeding / Re: Genes in hatch mates
« on: February 03, 2013, 04:27:04 PM »
Thanks Mike! You posted while I was typing. Your reply was much more scientific and to the point than mine. I humbly acknowledge yours as a better reply! Thanks for the info.
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Breeding / Re: Genes in hatch mates
« on: February 03, 2013, 04:19:53 PM »
Sharon, I'm not an expert on chicken genes, but I just look at my siblings. I am a little over 6' tall, my older brother is 5'8". He has blue eyes, mine are brown. Out of 3 brothers our dispositions are not the same. I still have most of my head hair, my one brother has only about half. Three kids wear corrective glasses one did not. I don't think I can blame this on the milkman as my dad had red hair and so did all 4 kids. WE do have some similarities, but probably just as many differences. I do think the more you line breed chickens the more you can selectively achieve desired results, but probably not in just one generation. This is only my opinion-not gospel!
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Artificial light and male fertility
« on: January 23, 2013, 10:07:41 AM »
Mike, The offer on the eggs is tempting, but your weather report has me wanting to go south not north. My hydrants froze too and I'm carrying water also. At least we are not -20 just down to about zero at the coldest. It is to be a heat wave here today about 30 then back down for the next few days. Hang in there and throw another log on the fire. Keep warm.
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Hatcher leaking?
« on: January 18, 2013, 11:46:52 AM »
Did you check the clip where the hose attaches to the water pan (if you are using a water container on top of the hatcher)? The hose should be tight against the water tray and the clip as tight against the water tray as possible.
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Artificial light and male fertility
« on: January 01, 2013, 09:32:02 PM »Quote
I'll bet you are right on target!
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Artificial light and male fertility
« on: January 01, 2013, 10:31:35 AM »
Sorry!
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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Turned on the Incubator Today
« on: December 08, 2012, 03:15:49 PM »
Just call me the hesitant dog, but I will wait until March to start setting eggs. It's fun enough to take care of the adult birds in zero and sub zero weather and not worry about keeping chicks warm while growing out. It can still be nasty weather here until mid April!