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    Castrating cockerels (chemically)

    I'm getting a few young Pekin bantams shortly, and I've had the fortune of watching them grow up with their mum at my work place. Problem is I'm very tempted by a couple of the young cockerels also, but I'm living in a very built up area. They have not yet started crowing but no dout will soon...
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    brinsea polyhatch

    ive been given a brinsea polyhatch on loan by a mates parents who live on a farm and their hens are getting a bit past it and so they have asked me to hatch them a few as they dont have time themselves. the incubator has seen better days and will likely need some repairs (the turning moter for...
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    anyone in east central scotland breeding californians?

    used to have them years ago, and looking to get a few sometime this year.
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    non crowing cockrels.. such a thing?

    is there such a thing? id love to keep small bantams, but as i live in a built up area, cockrels are likely to cause me problems. from going to poultry auctions years ago i did hear alot of dutch bantam cocks had rather pathetic crows, but are there any breeds where the cocks dont crow?
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    small ducks for built up area?

    what small ducks would be suilable for a built up area. i live in a semi detached ex-council house in a 'resonably' nice estate. our back garden is about 30ft long by about 10 ft wide, we have a masive side/ front garden, but its not fenced in. I was considering building a small pond and a...
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    hatching problems...

    hello, new on here, but not new to quail/birds at all. but having problems hatching eggs. a number of years ago, i got 2 covatuto6 incubators for my xmas, and the first egg i used in them were chinese painted quail, i used 8 eggs from the pair i had at the time, and although all the eggs were...
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