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My EE's started laying blue, now lay green eggs, no joke...want to swap? ;-)

I've got the same issue with my RIR currently. I had her separated from the flock, she seemed better, so I thought she might have just been a little under the weather. I put her back with the flock yesterday, just checked her, and it looks like she has a huge ulcerated hemorrhoid or something...

My better judgement says to toss it. Which I'm going to do. Rigimortis hadn't set in yet, so that's why I debated eating it, I don't think it was dead long. But, the meat turning white in the breast seemed to imply that it had been heated and it looked "cooked". The additional heat would only...

Awesome! Thanks for the replies! I did discover them knocking over the water to sit in it. I put it up on blocks yesterday, which seemed to help. But, today they knocked it over while I was at work, it was hot today, and I found one of my meat birds dead when I got home. I'm suspecting from heat...

It was hot today, while I was at work the birds knocked over their water, and I'm assuming one of my meat birds died from heat exhaustion. She was still warm when I found her so I butchered her. However, some of the breast meat looked white, like it was half cooked. The breasts are mostly red...

Howdy! I recently purchased a 1 gallon hanging waterer from TSC, the red and white kind with the twist on bottom. I've got it hanging in the coop and can not keep the birds from knocking in to it and draining it. I had the smaller stand version, not hanging, and they'd knock that one over and it...

So, I'm getting ready to start to harvest some of my meat birds. They are with some layers, so I've fed them medicated starter since they were chicks.Chalk it up to rookie mistake. Saw the posts about fermented feed. Just wondering if they are going to taste like Vicks Vabor Rub now that they've...

I love that someone else finds their meat birds gross! My wife hates ours. We've got two roosters and a hen. They were straight run. The Roos are nearing harvest, but the hen is a little lean. They certainly are hard birds to get to like. They outgrow their feathers, are half bald, are bullies...

6-7 week old chicks. Wish me luck!

Nice coop! Sweet sleds!!

Follow up: Stopped by Home Depot tonight on the way home from work. They happened to be assembling gas grills for display. They gave me a couple of the shipping boxes for the grills. I just used one to start. It more than doubled the size of the original enclosure. You could tell immediately...

Had a similar concern. My cornish hens are getting HUGE fast! I picked one up tonight and her belly was just about bald. They are only about 4 weeks old. Are they getting too big too fast for their feathers, or is something else possibly going on? They are still in the brooder with the other...

Thanks for the info! I was away on business a few days, and when I returned I think my chics doubled in size! I noticed they were pecking each other. I'm a rookie, so couldn't tell if they were preening each other or something else was going on. Tonight I thought they were getting crowded. They...