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 Topic: Average chick survival rates? |
Debbie
Replies: 5
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 Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu May 05, 11 6:34 pm Subject: Average chick survival rates? |
| we were told to work on a 10% loss with day old meat chicks |
| Topic: cold brooder |
Debbie
Replies: 10
Views: 9251
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue May 03, 11 4:35 pm Subject: cold brooder |
| can you see any reason why I can't make one out of one of our upturned poly insulated boxes with a whole cut for the "door" and towling suspended through holes in the top as per the cardboard one? |
| Topic: cold brooder |
Debbie
Replies: 10
Views: 9251
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue May 03, 11 2:44 pm Subject: cold brooder |
| Thanks for that. my chicks are two weeks old and I was thinking of making one next week. At the moment they are in a brooder in the house under a heat lamp but they really do need to go out to our l ... |
| Topic: cold brooder |
Debbie
Replies: 10
Views: 9251
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue May 03, 11 1:07 pm Subject: cold brooder |
| I thought I saw a post on here about someone making a cold brooder? I have seen the backyard poultry site with the instructions as to how to make one but I wondered if anyone from our colder climes h ... |
| Topic: Livestock guardian dogs |
Debbie
Replies: 16
Views: 10053
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Tue May 03, 11 10:42 am Subject: Livestock guardian dogs |
| Our collie guards our poultry during the day. He is not a house dog he lives in the hay barn at night wih my neighbours two working dogs but during the day he guards our assorted poultry in about 5 a ... |
| Topic: chicken feed question |
Debbie
Replies: 6
Views: 4824
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue May 03, 11 10:34 am Subject: chicken feed question |
| No a huge difference in price. our layers/growers are 34p per kg bu we buy in 25kg sacks |
| Topic: Next 2 nights - DANGER OF FROST |
Debbie
Replies: 23
Views: 25239
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue May 03, 11 10:29 am Subject: Next 2 nights - DANGER OF FROST |
| was very cold and winduy here last night - horses rugged again but no actual frost as yet. Wind due to drop today so expect frost tonight - but then we are on the top of exmoor and somewhat exposed. ... |
| Topic: Goats |
Debbie
Replies: 10
Views: 7609
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sun May 01, 11 11:33 am Subject: Goats |
| We love our goats but they are escapologists if they want to be - ours have a stable for nigh bu we have had to put a bar about 1 foot up from the top of the door to stop them jumping out - we dn't mi ... |
| Topic: Croquembouche |
Debbie
Replies: 31
Views: 56132
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Wed Apr 27, 11 11:48 am Subject: Croquembouche |
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Well, his is how it turned out. I used an up turned jelly mold that is conical but wih a fla top as a guide for the first 5 or 6 inches. ... |
| Topic: Croquembouche |
Debbie
Replies: 31
Views: 56132
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Fri Apr 22, 11 11:30 am Subject: Croquembouche |
| I would just like to say, for the record, that I would not be upset if I never ever saw another profitterole for the rest of my life...Not building till tomorrow but making the buns today..first bach ... |
| Topic: Cream Legbar's - Girls or Boys |
Debbie
Replies: 38
Views: 43253
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Fri Apr 15, 11 3:28 pm Subject: Cream Legbar's - Girls or Boys |
| doesn't quite have the same ring to it but try the moorpigs disease - started with two weaners and now have 5 sows (one pregnant one with boar), a boar and around 40 fattening pigs....Which reminds me ... |
| Topic: Cream Legbar's - Girls or Boys |
Debbie
Replies: 38
Views: 43253
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Fri Apr 15, 11 3:14 pm Subject: Cream Legbar's - Girls or Boys |
| Me too Sue, my first hatch of 42 eggs due this time next week and hoping for cockerals as they will be quite small and they fetch a good price hot smoked at the exmoor food festival in October and ayl ... |
| Topic: Geese eyes |
Debbie
Replies: 7
Views: 5414
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Fri Apr 15, 11 1:13 pm Subject: Geese eyes |
| a mild tea solution is very good Alison |
| Topic: Cream Legbar's - Girls or Boys |
Debbie
Replies: 38
Views: 43253
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Fri Apr 15, 11 1:11 pm Subject: Cream Legbar's - Girls or Boys |
| Are you going to keep any of the cockerals Sue? I was just thinking that a cocerkal with the blue egg gene over your dark brown egg layers are going to produce some pullets that lay some pretty amazi ... |
| Topic: AN goats for sale |
Debbie
Replies: 16
Views: 12662
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Wed Apr 13, 11 9:39 am Subject: AN goats for sale |
| I am waiing for my cream seperator to arrive - goat milk clotted cream? |
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