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Exhibiting & Promoting / Re: Top line and Tail Sets

« on: September 12, 2015, 10:20:35 PM »

Sharon, you can find a set of profiles on the APA site.  They are used by juniors for breed ID but very useful all the way around!

Christine Kitsch

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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: chick boxes

« on: March 08, 2015, 06:59:58 PM »

Try poultry2.tripod.com
Just got an order from them and thought they were quite reasonable.

Christine Kitsch
Frozen Acre Farm

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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: Preparing incubators for hatching

« on: January 20, 2015, 05:22:47 PM »

Hi Don...
You can try buying cheap cat food to boost the protein level of your feed; we make a scratch mix of cat food, a little corn and BOSS.  But too much protein is just excreted and can damage their kidneys.  We also have found that cooking, crushing (beyond recognition!) and feeding the duds (shells and all) back to the birds seems to help.
We have an old Petersime redwood that we fumigate before setting.

Christine Kitsch

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Housing, Health & Hatching / Re: How do I keep hatching eggs separate?

« on: January 20, 2015, 05:15:10 PM »

We have an old Petersime redwood that has multiple dividers.  But on occasion, we have used onion bags.  I prefer the softer type but the holes are bigger and would not be good for bantams.  I close the bag with a twist tie and take the chicks out as soon as they're dry with no issues. 

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Exhibiting & Promoting / Re: NE Poultry Congress

« on: January 20, 2015, 01:37:06 PM »

Wow, John, learn something new every day!  We knew about the Orpington, but not Australorp.  Will is not on social media so I will pass that along.  (side note, we have your 1/4 Wheaten male on some of our buff hens, so I'm curious to find what we get.  Kind of excited that for the first time ever, our buffs are laying better than the other varieties.)

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Exhibiting & Promoting / Re: NE Poultry Congress

« on: January 20, 2015, 11:25:21 AM »

Yes, Mike, it is a special award this show has been doing for quite some time.  Best Trio; judged on consistency and quality of the birds.  The birds can only be considered for further judging (best of breed and class Ch) if they are from a first place trio, so you take a bit of a risk.  He had the only Am. Trio though, so that wasn't an issue.  Competition came at class Champion, then Ch LF trio, then Supreme Ch Trio of the show.  Yes, it was on his black Ameraucanas.  I didn't think to count the exact number of trios out there, but all were designated with red stickers on the coop cards and there were a lot of those . He was thrilled to have birds up there in company of Rick Hare and Jan Brett, and more excited to win it.  It was a $75 monetary prize, big ribbon and bragging rights

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Exhibiting & Promoting / NE Poultry Congress

« on: January 20, 2015, 10:51:19 AM »

We attended one of our favorite shows  (2500 birds) this weekend and Will competed in Open.  Unfortunately there were very few Ameraucanas shown, but Will still had a RIR up front and a black cockerel from his trio was Ch AOSB.  What he was most thrilled about, though, was winning the Trio Classic against some of the best breeders on the East Coast.  Good to see Ameraucanas having a consistent presence; now we just need to get something other than blacks up front

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Re: LF buff males for sale

« on: November 24, 2014, 10:23:39 PM »

Will Kitsch

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Re: LF buff males for sale

« on: November 24, 2014, 10:22:36 PM »

Will Kitsch will@frozenacrefarm.com

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Re: LF buff males for sale

« on: November 24, 2014, 09:15:50 PM »

Well these are not the greatest of pictures but Kate Goins sent them to me a few months ago.

Will Kitsch
will@frozenacrefarm.com

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Exhibiting & Promoting / Re: 2014 National Meet Results - Lucasville, OH

« on: October 10, 2014, 06:44:33 PM »

The 2014 Meet was a great time and we (Will and I) truly enjoyed once again putting faces with names.  Thanks so much to Sharon for all your hard work; and we are looking forward to meeting you all again soon!  For those that didn't make it...this club is special and if you can make the next one, you certainly won't regret the effort!

Christine (and Will) Kitsch

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Exhibiting & Promoting / Re: Pennsylvania special meet

« on: September 20, 2014, 06:21:18 PM »

Dwayne...Lebanon Fairgrounds...off 72 south of Lebanon, not far from Hershey though.  Lots of prizes and $!!  Plus a rabbit show, live entertainment, lots of fun.  We'll be there.

Christine Kitsch

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Exhibiting & Promoting / Re: 2014 National Meet Incentives

« on: August 24, 2014, 07:33:09 AM »

Mike, my son is preparing an essay and asked if it could be emailed to you?  If so, what address?
Thank you so much for sponsoring this!

Christine Kitsch
Frozen Acre Farm

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Re: Questionable seller

« on: May 11, 2014, 11:00:04 PM »

I will, and will do it privately.  Pretty confident they are NOT members, and this person gets abusive when confronted.  Hence the heads up.  I'll contact John privately so as not to bother the site!

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Ameraucana Marketplace / Re: Questionable seller

« on: May 11, 2014, 08:42:29 PM »

Sorry, Mike, I (Christine) don't post a lot and forgot to put my name.  As John said, we are in PA and have a small website under Frozen Acre Farms.  Not sure who this person is or if the birds are ours; any rate, just concerned about our reputation given the lack of his!