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Me too. In the past i tried to slaghter some hens few times with knife and i always ended up feeling sorry for them and let them back with the flock (i started keeping chickens for their eggs). But nothing escapes my garden scissors

Thanks for all the replies. The tool is not new and has cut many tons of wood, but the blade is of good quality and cuts wood easier than other new tools of the same kind. Very sharp like it was new and i keep it clean with alcohol when i do this job. If you try to cut off the head, it will...

I see 2 negative votes but no replies. I still think that tool has the same results with the axe method.

My chicken journal! and BYC lovers! Long time no see! When i started this thread i knew it would be somewhere safe for ever here in BYC. After 1 year i am back to add some stuff its like seeing an old friend. "The rooster" or for my now 3 yo daughter the "bad hen" The most evil rooster...

Hello, i use garden scissors similar to the one at the picture below to slaughter my chickens, so far i used it 4 times for some roosters. I tie them upside downby the legs and use a net to tie them around their wings, then i tie the head on a large piece of wood to keep their head in place and...

thanks for your answers if i knew how bad it would be the way i did the whole thing, i wouldnt butcher it lol i also butchered 2 young guinea hens but they will wait a while in the fridge before we cook them, i hope those will be a nice dinner this time or i will never butcher again my...

Hello, today i butchered a chicken and the meat was really hard what could it be the reason? Was it because it was 1.5 years old meatbird? Or because it was free range 1.5 old meatbird? Was it butchered the wrong way? Maybe it wasnt bled out properly? Could it be because it was BBQed right...

Thanks, my birds are adults, so i was wrong about cocci. That hen died fast and did not suffer, the expired antibiotics worked. black humor.. i hope i will find out what it was before another bird gets infected. I will follow your advice, thank you

Hello my chicken journal!!!!! Many new things. The best of all is my son. I am father x2 now, yahooo. He is 2+ months already, now i have 2 reminders for how fast the time goes by(i mean that we are all GETTING OLD FAST) my son and my daughter. Its nice to see the time go by fast, and not get...

Hello fellow chicken lovers i have some questions about coccidiasis because i suspect my hens live around it unprotected, i lost one 7 days ago and right now i have another sick hen. My experience with chicken diseases is limited and i am trying to understand if: 1) if i give coccidiasis...

Hello my chicken journal. 3 months since i last posted. Its pretty d cold this days, its nearly snowing... i cant pay enough attention to my flock with this weather... it seems.. i found one of my fat meatbirds dead today in the chicken coop. She was my favorite hen and made the biggest eggs i...

Thanks for the replies, i want to make clear i am not mixing grains, i give them the egg layer mixed grain i buy at the store it just includes corn and another seed i am not mixing these 2 myself. More opinions would be helpful.

Let me explain my case first. Last year i bought 2 raised egg layers that i thought i "rescued" from a over-crowded cage in some store. Very bad conditions there, imagine at their farms they raise them.. they were happy to free range in my yard and didnt really peck each other but they both had...

I chose the spot near my house, its done. I felt complete and not sad as i returned home as i thought that my chicken is happy there. I see the trees that i burried my chicken under from my house and smile I could not just throw that chicken in the garbage, it was so unique. Thanks to...

My journal, i double post to tell you how things were today in my yard after i burried my chicken. My chickens were very hungry and needed some attention, i was walking in the yard to the free-range feeder when the rooster ATTACKED ME AGAIN. How typical is that? Come on you %%$#%$# i thought...

Yes it is. Anyway, the answer to the why question comes and is always the same, thats life! I arrived home from work in the morning, the sun was not up yet. I can see the sun comming up very early, it comes up from the sea. There was daylight, just not sun yet. After i passed a bottle of milk...

Thanks for the replies. I am about to get back home from work, it will be very early in the morning 6-7:00 so i think i will just hurry up and go make that funeral by myself before my wife wakes up. She has to make the cake for my daugters 2nd birthday that is today. I think i will choose the...

I dont know why this happent,but probably something wrong in the incubating progress killed them. Was this your first incubation? i incubated once, 3 eggs, 1 lived and the 2 others hatched but they were both crippled and died 1 and 3 days later in my case my humidity was low in the first days...

Today my most loved chicken died. It all happen suddenly and died in 2 days of some mysterious reason. Usually i double bag my dead chickens and throw them in the garbage. But this chick was different since my daughter my wife and i remember this chick since day 1. I made an incubator and...