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- Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:10 pm
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Chicks have Hatched!!!!!!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4275
Re: Chicks have Hatched!!!!!!
You can test the other eggs by putting them one at a time into a bowl of hot water. If there is a live chick inside it will float to the top and move about. If there are no live chicks then I would move your hen to ground level right away.
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:58 pm
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Corvina incubator issues.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2979
Re: Corvina incubator issues.
It's better not to be turning the eggs in the last few days.
- Mon May 05, 2014 9:46 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Breeding Ducks/Chickens for selling
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6309
Re: Breeding Ducks/Chickens for selling
Even if you don't make much money it's very rewarding just watching the chicks hatch and grow, I love it.
- Sun May 04, 2014 10:06 am
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Breeding Ducks/Chickens for selling
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6309
Re: Breeding Ducks/Chickens for selling
Yes there is money to be made in breeding poultry and many people do. You have to learn a lot and invest a lot though, easier to just sell the eggs.
Hens are born in debt and they die in debt.
Hens are born in debt and they die in debt.
- Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:37 am
- Forum: Wild Foods and Foraging
- Topic: Brighton seaweed / pollution
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7803
Re: Brighton seaweed / pollution
I've eaten seaweed from time to time, kelk and we get a red dulse that's peppery. I would avoid eating filter feeders in your part of the world but there are plenty of grazers you can eat. The common limpet is full of protein and zero cholesterol, they have the texture of India rubber but the water ...
- Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:04 am
- Forum: Green Building
- Topic: Tiny Houses any suggestions/advice
- Replies: 7
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Re: Tiny Houses any suggestions/advice
In Scotland I would go for a timber frame with cob and straw walls then a turf roof with a good waterproof membrane under it.
- Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:57 pm
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Free Pig Food
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4312
Re: Free Pig Food
Your pigs are going to need around 16% protein in their diet which means you will have to beef up their feed with something. I don't know about the legality of fish or bone meal these days.Peas and beans are good. I found pigs did very well indeed on cooked potatoes and milk, I had plenty of goats m...
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:52 pm
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Boggy land and livestock
- Replies: 3
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Re: Boggy land and livestock
Goats and sheep would get foot rot on boggy land. You have to consider the health of the land as well as the health of the animal. Pigs wouldn't mind the mud but they would destroy the land, any mechanical action on boggy land puddles it to mud then it dries to clay. The only way to beat it is drain...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:03 pm
- Forum: Livestock
- Topic: Boggy land and livestock
- Replies: 3
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Re: Boggy land and livestock
I wouldn't be thinking about getting any goats. Some goats are designed to live in deserts and some are designed to live up mountains, there aren't any designed to live in bogs and their hooves will turn into a nightmare. If you can put land drains in, if not plant willow, boggy land is no use to ma...