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Chickens eat about anything... Remember as kid on the family farm when it was time to cull chickens for the freezer it was family affair. Us kids had the choice of gutting or plucking... I finally got the less gruesome chore (as I thought) of gutting, I hated plucking.... Well anyway...

I got 4 leghorns in my flock of 40+ and they are approaching 5 yrs old, and still spitting me out an egg a day to every other day.

1 dz eggs = 1 dz boneless and skinless chickens. Serve baked (spanish omelette style) scrambled, fried, broiled and or boiled.

Chicken Fried racoon is pretty damn good when ya add some spicy hot peppers to them...

only good racoon is one way in the wild, or dead! I keep a live trap by my coops and enclosed runs (got 3 of them). Also have a high powered .22 cal air rifle. Dispatches racoons very efficiently when in the trap or out of the trap out too 75 yds. Few yrs back had an elderly couple...

If you got roosters with your hens all of the time, you can bet them eggs are fertilized. Besides you are sounding like you believe in abortion as well with that great explanation. Chickens to me "Livestock" and not pets....... (p.s. corrected your spelling in your quote)

That was being polite....... Live Stock are not pets. Dogs, cats are pets. Dogs are also a working animal like a Horse, Donkey... Now cats are either a problem or a pet....

Purchased a straight run of 12 Silver Lace. Unfortunately 10 turned out to be Roosters, of which I already had two adult Americana Roosters. I have 3 separate runs and coops, and put the 10 Silver Lace in a run by themselves as they matured. After a few more months I had given away a few...

WOW.... Chickens are livestock, hence food. If you can not handle the thought of culling a mean bird why are you then consuming the eggs? After all, you are still culling a bird eating an egg.

Noisy little buggers too, will attach just a like a goose. good watch fowl lol

alot of ferral cats and dogs where i live as well as coons, skunks and possum. 1" Hex avain wire (or chicken wire/fencing) is the way to go but gets expensive. I fully enclose my runs top and sides. found the cheap way is to go with 2 hex, 6 foot high, and do in the top as well. Half...

I believe in K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) no harm ment here. But a bird will roost on any surface it can fit it's fat keester. I got old metal "L" shelf brackets up in one of my runs, they perch on them. Also got old branches tied together anchored in the the run corner, some branches...

I rip old 2x4's into 2x2's break out the draw knife and round the edges. when possible I use natural branches 3" to 2" in diameter that will span the width of my various coop in the roost areas

I have a Black sexlink hen, now approaching 7 months old. Believe she got wry neck from shipping. She is setting herself in the pecking order, flys around the coop, roosts high up night, and faces off against other hens in the pecking order process. She needs no special handling or...

wow, all the different comments here. To me chickens are not pets, they are food. Both Egg and meat! I want a couple of roosters for replenishing what I process and put in the freezer, buying chicks every yr gets a bit expensive, I have more than couple hundred bucks invested in chicks this...

I use old cat litter buckets cut in half for nesting boxes and fill with hay for bedding.

I am in the concho valley area, on top of conglomerate limestone. There is no digging of post holes, you can drill and jackhammer. But I took a more reasonable route. Neighbor has a big pile of wasting away mountain cedar (Juniper) logs. I cleaned them up with a chainsaw, and made a...

lol, I'm in west texas, my run is built on a lime stone ledge with some dirt/gravel. My shells are thick.. no need to supliment with anything

Good Morning Y,all Finally got my chicks in my redneck coop. Got 10 white Leghorn pullets, just about feathered out. Got the coop closed off to the run currently with a heat lamp still going for the little devils. Boy they was sure happy for the extra room. They looked like popcorn...