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Makes sense that pigs without constant water become saltier to me. Been told that pigs can't sweat so all salt in their body has to go through kidneys and blatter wich won't work properly without water. The pigs I'm getting are raised on grass, scraps, corns and grains so they haven't eaten pig pellets. Pellet feed often contains an high percentage of salt. For this reason I won't even worry about feeding small amounts of kidney. Last time I also been given calf tongue, had to boil it for 2-3 hours before it was soft enough for the buggers to eat. In my opinion the tongue and hearth are good
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Was given it before but it wasn't much pork, chopped it up and mixed with beef organs. I believe total was 10kg. This time I'll be getting it from 6 pigs and probably 2 cows, might get fewer liver because some people want it as part of their half pig deal. I'm lucky not many people eat organs here. Cutting up the lungs was pretty awkward.. started tearing them after a few because it felt real weird cutting them blood filled spunges up. At first they are big and squishy, after you put the knife in it makes an creepy sound, deflates and squirts blood/fluid all over the counter top and walls...
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I've gof an opportunity to get fresh heart, liver lungs and kidneys from a few pigs. As they're not preserved would it be save to feed? If not I'll tell the guy I only take his cow organs.
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Do you want to see pics of the plucker I already made? Hope you don't, if I put pics of it online people might start questioning my workmanship. Basic al I did was drill some holes through an 2" piece of pvc, put rubber through and stuff it in hole saw. Was planning to make it nice but found out the pvc fitted the hole saw perfectly.
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Take a look at the homemade drill bit pluckers on the web. I've made myself 1 some years ago, didn't have real plucker fingers so used pieces of rubber foil like the stuff they use for roofs and ponds. Looked real ghetto but worked like a charm and didn't cost anything. Still in operation today. Mailman brought me 100 real plucker fingers last week. Came from China for only €0.35 each. Mooched an electric motor, pulleys and belt and got an good deal on 1" square steel. Planning on building an dry plucker, but first got to build an bigger brooder, jap quail grow out cages, escape proof
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If you decide to buy one feel free to ask my help if you need to. Easier to gather information, spare parts and such here because they're made and used a lot here. My younger brother actually learned how to use them in school... I'll advice to have an spare belt laying around at all times, probably don't gonna need it but belts obviously always wear out in the middle of the most important batch of eggs of your season.
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I use an ms50 auto turned cabinet incubator and an smaller type ms50 for hatching. The auto uses an rotating bar fan for ventilation, it's an perfect system, humidity is easy to maintain and there are no cold spots in the machine. Use it since last spring, had multiple 90% hatches, even with quail and 3 weeks old bad stored bantams eggs. Important thing to know is eggs tend to hatch an day earlier in an rotating bar machine. The machines are made here in Holland so they're not as expensive like in UK and lot of second hand ones here. You can look at their website wi h is also available i
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Well it's hard to start ferreting. Finding permission is harder than I taught because almost all land is already permission of shooters or the landowner just won't believe ferreting is even legal. Back in the day only poachers ferreted, probably because legal hunters used to be elite and looked down on ferreting. Right now I've only got my grandfather's farm, it's more like a machine graveyard actually. Hard to find burrows, always underneath some broken down piece of farm equipment. Lots of rabbits from time to time but the poachers notice that to... I'm lucky if they leave 1 to bolt, so
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Thanks for all your replies. Chicken man, I meant like from 1 of the only surviving working lines. Ferreting was very commom in the 19th and early 20th century here. Most of the ferreters poached because of poverty. When the economy grew after the war ferreting moved to the background, ferrets became pets instead of providers and people only bred them on size, the bigger the better... To bad I need an vasectomised hob.. Vets here aren't really used to ferrets at all, do not provide Jill jabs to get them out of season and do not vasectomate ferrets only remove their entire testicles.
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Hi, Got my first ferrets early last summier. My jills came from one of the original Dutch working lines. (According to the seller). They weigh an evarage of 600 grams. Hob is probably cross between pet ferret and wild Euro polecat, he weighs around 1500 grams. Planning of breeding 1 of the jills to my hob and the other 2 to an chemically neutered hob at my brothers school to get them out of season. I wondered if it's safe to breed quite a large hob to an small Jill? Ain't really worried he'll squash of break her but can't his ofspring be to large for her to carrie? Heard a stor
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Yes they made them until the 80's, I saw some for sale in the Middle East that looked brand new a couple of years ago In the town in live an animal supplies salesman still sells them brandnew, €35 each. My brother worked there for a while, told me he's got an loft full of 'em
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RIP lad..
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kale
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8 quails didn't survive the broken lamp.. Arran, you could always think about making an incubator for your own wishes, you can even build an automatic one. My jumbo rooster is very agresive to other roosters, i never seen him pick at hens but when he hears an other rooster he gets mad. I've got 4 roosters in one cage now, doesn't give any problems haven't seen that before, the roosters are 3 young ones from the same batch and brooder and their father. Their father wasn't even agresive to the young ones and the young ones accepted him as a gangmember immediately. I had an metal on wheels w
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Fecking heatlamp broke.. When i went to the shed to feed them some of them were already gone and the others didn't move but were alive. I've put them in the incubator and some of them start to walk again...
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I know it aint a bad hatch for japanese quails but i had a 70% hatch once and eversince every hatch under 70% is classified as a bad hatch. I do mean jumbo coturnix but i thaught they were called jumbo brown coturnix, my breeders come from Belgium and in Belgium are yellow and brown jumbo quails mixed bred for decades so if both your hens and rooster are brown you probably still hatch some yellow chicks in every hatch. The yellow jumbo's are not as dark as italian quail but their lighter just like crosses of italian coloured roosters with brown/pharoah hens.
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My batch of meat quails hatched yesterday, 15 chicks out of 33 eggs.. I already thaugth it wasn't going to be a succes, the power went of one time and the incubator hasn't been stable since.. A funny thing is that al the chicks are yellow , i've got a yellow rooster and 5 brown hens. My previous breeding group had also brown hens and a yellow rooster and i've had around 40% yellow chicks from them.
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Get some ostrich.
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Someone should change the name of this thread
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Had some pints yesterday? I know that the egg production should be more but my birds are in an outside aviary without artificialy lights at the moment because we've build a new shed. Also the birds are meat quails so i don't think their parents were selected on laying but just on size. The birds go into their new indoor pen tomorrow. I'm converting 2 double tier rabbit hutches to brooders now and i sold my chickens today so i can use their brooders for quails to, that gives me total 45 sq foot brooder space. Do you keep your birds in tier cages or on the ground?
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Al i know is that the hens are supposed to go broody easily and they are very good (foster)mothers to the chicks. I've got one blacktailed japanese bantam and she took care for chicks from other hens that were given to here, most other hens don't want to know notting about unknow chicks.
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What do you think is wrong about my information? This is from my personal experience of 4 years breeding, but we learn from each other and everyone has different experienceses and opinions. As an example some people told me that quail roosters become unfertile from chick starter feed for chickens but i'f succesfully bred with roosters wo ate that.
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Forgot to tell that you never should quails in couples, most of the roosters are aggressive and rough when they mate and peck to the hens sometimes so a single hen by a rooster is probably going to be fatal to the hen. 1 rooster and 4 hens what you said you want to keep is a good sexratio.
