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Due to health and age, time to hang it up. Must dispose of old stew hens first, maybe 300 of them. Any suggestions? Any petfood manufacturers in our areathat would payus something for them? Or do you all have any other suggestions? Thank you.

I bought point of lay chickens from Norman Monk twice and want to again. However I lost contact information. He is an.Amish.man in Iowa who raises and sells large numbers of high-line browns. Does.anyone have his contact info? Please PM.me with it if you do. Thanks.

HOW DO YOU KEEP THEM ALIVE AND DRY. We tried 5gal Waferer w/ round trough around it. Tjey constantly got in water and cold. So in desperation we bought 1 gal. Buckets w/ 2 nipples each. They still soak their saw dust. Thermomeger sayz 97 during day but I suspect it dips loaer in early morning...

We are building a small poultry slaughter house to do our own various birds including ducks for our farmers market booth and hope to then expand to processing for public. I can find appropriate scalders & pluckers but not duck waxers. All look too gigantic for our size operation. Anyone have an...

Anybody have one for sale? Willing to travel. Prefer AquaMagic or a model that dries too, but willing to consider others. Must do at least 200-300 eggs/hour. Thanks. PM me with info, price, location and contact phone number. Connie

Hi. I'm in TX, Waco area. Read that Micks Chicks who I have seen here has his own slaughterhouse. And read article about the one the Noels used to have in a Rodale publication. Trying desperately to start our own and would like to connect with people who have been there, done that, for some...

Help! So tired of not beiing able to expand our farmer's market poultry biz! Want to offer poultry meat but can't find a slaughter house here to do it for me or can't decifer the state and USDA rules for starting our own without having to mortgage my soul to finance it! I see USDA offers an...

Help! Trying to decifer USDA rules from Texas State rules. USDA allows 1000 birds to be slaughtered and sold by a small farmer without inspection and minimum hoops to jump through, but I can't find out if Texas also honors this since their rule regarding the second exemptions, 20,000 birds...

We have one chick, now 1 month old, whose leg dangles uselessly behind her and appears to be twisted completely backwards. I didn't know if this was "splayed leg" someone else described here once before. I remember she cured it in about 3 days by taping the legs together and turning the odd...

Sorry, so many questions today... In my July 7 order of 71 chicks and 12 ducks, I also ordered 8 broilers. I did have all the new chicks in one cage and the broilers seemed to be getting singled out and brutalized by the smaller chicks. One injured badly enough it died. I had planned to...

Our chicken tractor is 14x16, very roomy. The chicken yard itself is a movable 1/10th acre or over 4,000 square feet. We started w/31 chickens and 6 ducks to see how it would go w/predators and all before ordering the rest of our flock. Those I got on April 4 this year. On July 7, I went to...

Hi. I just learned from a Holleread duck book I ordered that not all Khaki Campbells are good layers as some are classified as "standard", an indication they are not true to the original high egg-laying stock developed in England. We want ours for their egg-laying abilities. I have six...

Help! My six ducks, Khakis I think, pluck the feathers out of my chickens and eat them. They were all raised together, all about 1 month old now, and housed together in the new coop, 14 ft x 16 ft and 5.5 feet tall, so I don't think overcrowding could be an issue. Only 40 birds at this point...

Hi. Those selling duck eggs for profit (and not feed bill loss!), how much do you charge per dozen and how do you market them? I'm starting for Ground Zero so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. Connie

Hi. We're just finishing our chicken coop. Next building project will be an incubator, I think. I saw many interesting homemade incubators on here, but Al's caught my attention as we do have some old cabinets. Al, has it been all you expected and are you getting as good a hatch as from an...

We're building our coop for our chickens, campbell ducks and French Guineas that will be housed together. What is minimum size door we'll need for the French guineas to come and go? Hopefully small enough to exclude some large dogs? Thanks. Connie

We are starting poultry in hopes of making profit. So far we have Production red chickens for egg production, barred rocks for egg and chick sales, a small start of Khaki Campbell ducks for duck egg and chick production. We want to add guineas for both insect and snake control and sales. We...

The reason I ask is because my new chicks are about 17 BR's and 15 production red pullets, which I planned in housing in same coop. However I was hoping there would be just enough difference in the eggs to separate them, the PRs for sale or use as food and at least some of the BR's for...

Those of you who try to profit off your chickens, how do you keep feed costs manageable? Particulars, please? I've read I need to keep my costs below 15 cents a pound. You can't do that buying 50-pound sacks at the feed store, so what do you do when you're not a big chicken corporation to...

Finally...finally...finally(!)...I am officially one of you. As of 3 days ago or so, I have 17 baby production red pullets, 15 barred rock plymouth pullets, 6 barred rock straight run (I figured I'd get 4-5 roosters out of that :0). And 6 straight run ducks that I hope and think are Khaki...