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When you rest your butchered chicken, is it in water or out of water?

I will be processing my birds next week and bought everything for my husband to make this. My only questions are, what happens to the feathers? Are they going to go flying all over the yard for me to pick up after or do they stay in a generalized area? Also, do you need to have running water...

My rooster (5 mo BC Marans) has been doing this also, at least for the last 2 days. He made the same purring sounds, too. I am puzzled!

It took a lot of nerve for me to post this question in the first place and I am SO glad I did. I love reading the replies, and am so glad no one made me feel stupid for asking - teased me, yes, but that was in fun, not to be mean. Thank you!

My neighbor snuck into my coop today and left me a surprise!

My rooster is 4mos old and has been trying to mate with my hens heads and backs. Yesterday my son noticed whitish sticky spots on a couple of the hens back...Is this what I think it is?

I have a beautiful Black Copper Marans rooster that was hatched on 11/21/09. He is as big now, as most of my hens who were hatched last April, and is bigger than the Ameracauna. I noticed the other day that he has been trying to mount Zoey, our Barred Rock. Is he too young to be starting...

This sounds exactly like what is happening to my EE. I hope it is just moulting...

I was reading a small article and an ad in a poultry magazine about Flubenvet 1% and it says there is not withdrawal period for eggs. Has anyone tried this? Thanks, Kristy

I got the 2 Marans from Harp's Turkeys here in McCleary. He is on BYC. They are laying BIG eggs. They aren't very dark, though, but I don't think the BS eggs are supposed to be as dark as the BC ones. The shape of the egg is lovely. Very round on one end. One of them lays with splotchy...

New2, I would have PUKED if it had broken!

Yes, slimy. Like KY Jelly slimy. They do get oyster shell. I think this was due to stress. I read on some old posts that stress can cause soft shelled eggs. My coop is not new, bit the current way it is set up is. It was very windy and rainy last night and they ended up sleeping on the...

I got one of those weird soft shelled eggs today. I didn't realize it until I took hold of it. YUCK! NASTY! SLIMY! FREAKY! I may not sleep well tonight...