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thanks everyone. this helped a lot! im much more confident now that you all gave me tips. I read every one of them and they all helped out. thanks

Quote: Awesome! friendly people are always nice to have around arent they? I think I'm gonna try scalding the chicken and handplucking them first. If i don't like that I'll go to step 2 with the whizbang

yeah, I'm focusing on setting up a station so i can do this as "clean" as possible. I think im going with the cone but as far as plucking the feathers I'm not sure how ill do that. I'm going to a guys house that does this for a living and learning how to "gut" or "process" them properly so I can...

awesome posts everyone! ill take all of it into consideration. Keep posting!

So I have been raising chickens for a couple yrs now (layers) and I'm planning on getting 25 meat birds (cornishX) for some meat. I deffinately don't have a problem killing animals (not saying i like doing it, but I hunt and trap so I do it all the time) But my question comes in is really what...

yeah it makes sense to separate her. And yes her toes do curl when she gets up sometimes. If i can get her to stand up and curl her toes ill take a pic. Well my main concern is just the fact of her living. I think if she keeps eating and i can get some water in her it will at least keep her some...

I have been feeding her the same thing i have been feeding my other chickens. a farmer i live by is mixing the food for me. It has worked awesome. it has pre-crushed oyster shells in it for calcium. i don't know why she out of 25 other chickens would have a vitamin problem. But ill pick some up...

So one of my white leghorns has been acting very weird. She has been sitting in the corner of the coop for a few days now. and since my chickens just started laying eggs (about 6 months old) i figured it was probably just pains from starting to lay. But i have noticed now that is NOT the...

Mine sometimes will do some open mouth biting when i stick my fingers in the run and wiggle them around. they come up and grab my fingers sometimes. But as i said before i think it just looks like food to them. chickens spot things on your hand and just peck at it to see what it is. My brother...

yup. i would say you should just cover the top with some kind of netting. they can and they will fly over the fence. My birds are now 6 Months old and they can fly way up in trees and on top of our barn.

Mine are like that too. They are a smart flock of birds i have to say. They are 6 Months old now so they are just starting to lay eggs. they started laying them in the corner of the coop. so i picked up the eggs an would put them in the nesting box (i would throw them away after about 4 days)...

Depends on the hen really. I mean generally...Yes they tend to lay larger eggs. But that does not apply to all of them.

Nope mine are not. They are 6 months old now but they grew out of it when i moved them to the coop outside.

As i have said before to people. Only you know your hens well. I personally don't go by what people say on a computer. Don't get me wrong, Awesome advice is given on this forum. But Im one of those guys that HAS to find out for himself. So i usually just take a couple of baby chicks and put them...

9 weeks is too young. The bigger hens BR and RIR and Aus can do some serious damage to them physically. They can kill them outright or prolong it by starving them out. They need to be near the same size as the BR and RIR and Aus or closer to 16 weeks before they can defend themselves from the...