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| ooptec |
 Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:50 am |
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Well, after much talkin' and research I finally found a lady who will
sell me a 1/2 doz. guinea fowl. They are full grown and I hope that as
there is still no dirt showing thru the snow that I can train them to
come into the chicken coop at night as that will be the only real good
food supply for awhile.
They'll have the place to themselves till chicks are due at last part
of April.
On a total different topic does anyone have a 'caponizing kit' that is
surplus to requirements. I could trade for some honey bee products
like honey, lip balms and skin cream I make myself.
cheers
peter |
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| Jill |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:00 pm |
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ooptec wrote:
Quote: Well, after much talkin' and research I finally found a lady who will
sell me a 1/2 doz. guinea fowl. They are full grown and I hope that as
there is still no dirt showing thru the snow that I can train them to
come into the chicken coop at night as that will be the only real good
food supply for awhile.
My experience and understanding is that you need to have an avairy
environment for new guineas for quite sometime. IE a house and wired
enclosure. Otherwise they are OFF
Have fun, we sorta miss ours, maybe we will get a few more this year.
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They'll have the place to themselves till chicks are due at last part
of April.
On a total different topic does anyone have a 'caponizing kit' that is
surplus to requirements. I could trade for some honey bee products
like honey, lip balms and skin cream I make myself.
The bee products sound lovely but fortunately caponising is illegal in this
country.
Its not something to be done by amateurs
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regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
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| A_ L _P |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:24 pm |
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ooptec wrote:
Quote: Well, after much talkin' and research I finally found a lady who will
sell me a 1/2 doz. guinea fowl. They are full grown and I hope that as
there is still no dirt showing thru the snow that I can train them to
come into the chicken coop at night as that will be the only real good
food supply for awhile.
They'll have the place to themselves till chicks are due at last part
of April.
On a total different topic does anyone have a 'caponizing kit' that is
surplus to requirements. I could trade for some honey bee products
like honey, lip balms and skin cream I make myself.
I'm interested in caponizing. I have a friend who used to do it - oh,
decades ago, in the US at a research institute. My vet doesn't know
about it, well she doesn't know how to do it - didn't mention whether it
was legal or not, but I expect that here (New Zealand) it would be
illegal if carried out by a non-vet and without anaesthetic.
I have a cat teeth-cleaning method - method! What pretentiousness! -
which involves inserting cat in sturdy old blue polyester dungarees and
wrapping them tightly with a safety pin securing cloth around the cat's
neck so it can't get paws & claws out, then scraping the chunks of
"shell" (it's as solid as shell, truly) deposits off with a dental tool.
This, I believe, is probably illegal. OTOH vets don't scrape teeth
until they are really REALLY bad because they have to give an
anaesthetic. Quite right too, I risk scratches and bites but it's no
big deal whereas a vet injured is a vet potentially off work or severely
limited by sticking plaster! So I clean my cats' teeth when I think of
it and inspection shows shells, and by removing them before they have
spent too much time covering the gingival margin and allowing disease to
flourish I keep the cats' teeth and gums healthy as long as possible.
Anyway - after that lengthy amble off-topic - are you in the US? Do
caponizing kits exist as made-up retail goods, or were you hoping for a
home-made one? At one stage I googled caponizing but didn't see
anything about equipment, that's why I ask.
A L P |
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| JustTom |
| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:40 am |
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:24:43 +1300, A_ L _P
<hay.hell.pea@ExnetT.co.nz> wrote:
Quote:
I'm interested in caponizing. I have a friend who used to do it - oh,
decades ago, in the US at a research institute. My vet doesn't know
about it, well she doesn't know how to do it - didn't mention whether it
was legal or not, but I expect that here (New Zealand) it would be
illegal if carried out by a non-vet and without anaesthetic.
I recently read this article on the subject:
http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Caponizing.html |
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| A_ L _P |
| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:55 am |
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JustTom wrote:
Quote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:24:43 +1300, A_ L _P
hay.hell.pea@ExnetT.co.nz> wrote:
I'm interested in caponizing. I have a friend who used to do it - oh,
decades ago, in the US at a research institute. My vet doesn't know
about it, well she doesn't know how to do it - didn't mention whether it
was legal or not, but I expect that here (New Zealand) it would be
illegal if carried out by a non-vet and without anaesthetic.
I recently read this article on the subject:
http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Caponizing.html
Thanks. Interesting... don't know if I'd have the nerve to do it!
A L P |
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