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    Indy Chicken Resources

    Local Chicken Resources After having chickens for over 2 years in Indianapolis, I have been on the search for chicken items. Not only chicken items, but chicken items that are priced reasonably & are easy (for the most part ) to navigate. Also, in this chicken quest, I have become very aware &...
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    Cornish Stats Info

    Cornish Xs I purchased 15 cornish Xs through Ideal Hatchery, March 2010 with my layers. All made it fine and mostly all survived to almost adulthood 8 females + 7 males = 15 chickens Weight per Chicken (1) 6.32 lbs (2) 7.01 (3) 6.06 (4) 6.29 (5) 6.43 (6) 7.11 (7)...
  3. My Ideal Hatchery Chickens

    My Ideal Hatchery Chickens

    My Girls from IDEAL Hatchery(and a few roos) I have seen several posts recently in regards to examples of different hatchery chickens. I know some prefer a private breeder, but in my opinion, to each is own. I live in a suburban/urban area and need the option of sexing my chicks. I have...
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    Augustmomx2s Page

    Chickens...Really? Welcome to my BYC home page! The above statement pretty much represents everyone's reaction when I decided to bring some girls into our family. I live in Indy & not many people around here have chickens. Those animals are for the "farmers" in the country, not the citizens...
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    Raccoon ripped off skin under wing...Can we eat it still?

    Thanks guys...time to put the poor thing out of his misery So close to butcher time too...
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    Raccoon ripped off skin under wing...Can we eat it still?

    I live in an urban/suburban setting, however, we still have raccoons. Pretty sure one got a 7wk old cx roo last night and ripped a portion of his skin off. Its removed right under the wing, and kind of "flapping" if you will Anyways, I usually send my meaties to be processed by an amish...
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    Rant Alert: Baby Animals are NOT Toys

    This is a rambling rant of mine and I apologize on the front-end In the spring I had ordered some baby chicks and its a "big" event in our house, with preparation etc. I spoke to a "friend" of mine about it, (using the term loosly, she is the mom of my kids' friends) and she suddenly had...
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    Toppled Waterer, Traumatized Owner & Saved by a Dryer

    Thanks everyone for your kind words So far, so good w/the chicks. I went to TSC last night and bought some electrolyte stuff to put in their water (I think its called Sav-A-Chick, so appropriate) Everyone is eating and drinking well...I will definitely keep my eye out for any hints of...
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    Toppled Waterer, Traumatized Owner & Saved by a Dryer

    I received 15 meaties in the mail today from Ideal. Everyone was healthy and happy upon arrival. The chicks were delivered during my lunch hour @ work, so I ran to the PO to get them and get them set-up. I put them in a "new" container, one that I had not used before, w/their water and feed...
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    concerned for a friend personal safety & $ **update pg 17**

    Wow...she needs to watch "Who the *bleep* Did I Marry?" On Investigative Discovery...hats off to you for having her best interests @ heart
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    What breed is your broody?

    I have 2, a buff silkie (only a few mos after the other one finally finished) & a Mille Fleur D'Uccle. Last time, the chicks were a silkie/duccle mix, this time I smartened up and pulled all the silkie eggs (only have a duccle roo). My silkie is sitting on 5 duccle eggs and the duccle is...
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    Vacuum sealing before the rest period?

    I had 25 meaties processed last Wednesday and had all 25 vacuum sealed. I allowed them to rest in the fridge 48hrs and froze 22 of them. The other 3 I cut-up and used for various meals. All the meat was tender, and DELISH! It was a lot easier and cleaner as well
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    "Good" egg laying bantam...anyone know of any?

    I have 2 buff silkies and 2 mille fleur duccles and get on average 3 eggs per day from them They all lay very well and they are in their second year as well. They lay much better (on average) than my "layers."
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    1st time processing turkey tips

    I found this link to be more than helpful...not that I've butchered a turkey, or chicken for that matter Its from BYC's sister-site http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6387
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    Killing and butchering your own birds

    Quote: Love this analogy
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