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<blockquote data-quote="Redgully" data-source="post: 1643051" data-attributes="member: 33533"><p>Looks good. Yeah had galvanise poisoning before where even milk didn't help, not a good place to be. These days i mostly use a mig, so easy on the light steel but i reckon the finished weld isn't as strong as arc. I found the best method at fox proofing a fence it to bury two foot of mesh away from boundry fence, only a couple of inches deep. That way they are standing on the wire they are trying to dig under. Never had a fox figure out it needs to move back a couple of feet to start digging. What breed of chook, one of the hybrids or a pure bred. I just can't see you getting the production out of pure breds. My sister ran a small egg business once, only small, about 60 chooks but people came from everywhere for her eggs. Problem was she didn't charge enough and the feed cost was not much under her income. </p><p></p><p>I gave her a hand with it all and made some infrastructure for her and always thought if she had more room, like ten acres, we could have kept the chooks fed soley on insects. We've all had plagues of insects so i thought if we could artificially manage the environment to produce plagues of insects it could be done. The trick would be a consistent supply of insects so no drop off in production. Tagasaste trees are meant to drop a lot of seed chooks love, could grow some sunflowers easy enough. Really the options are endless. </p><p></p><p>So the older birds, do you have crocodile farms near by to take them or what is the plan there? There is a market for two year old birds as 'rescue' hens but probably not enough to move big numbers. I have to laugh, my next door got some 'rescue' chickens and posted it all over facebook about how great an act it was. They spent most of their time in our vege garden or on the road until our other neighbours dogs shredded them. Funny they didn't post that on facebook!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Redgully, post: 1643051, member: 33533"] Looks good. Yeah had galvanise poisoning before where even milk didn't help, not a good place to be. These days i mostly use a mig, so easy on the light steel but i reckon the finished weld isn't as strong as arc. I found the best method at fox proofing a fence it to bury two foot of mesh away from boundry fence, only a couple of inches deep. That way they are standing on the wire they are trying to dig under. Never had a fox figure out it needs to move back a couple of feet to start digging. What breed of chook, one of the hybrids or a pure bred. I just can't see you getting the production out of pure breds. My sister ran a small egg business once, only small, about 60 chooks but people came from everywhere for her eggs. Problem was she didn’t charge enough and the feed cost was not much under her income. I gave her a hand with it all and made some infrastructure for her and always thought if she had more room, like ten acres, we could have kept the chooks fed soley on insects. We've all had plagues of insects so i thought if we could artificially manage the environment to produce plagues of insects it could be done. The trick would be a consistent supply of insects so no drop off in production. Tagasaste trees are meant to drop a lot of seed chooks love, could grow some sunflowers easy enough. Really the options are endless. So the older birds, do you have crocodile farms near by to take them or what is the plan there? There is a market for two year old birds as 'rescue' hens but probably not enough to move big numbers. I have to laugh, my next door got some 'rescue' chickens and posted it all over facebook about how great an act it was. They spent most of their time in our vege garden or on the road until our other neighbours dogs shredded them. Funny they didn't post that on facebook! [/QUOTE]
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