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LOL. I added 10 more minutes. Didn't really soften up but hopefully I can get the meat off the bones. I haven't tried yet-I just put everything in the fridge yesterday. I'll take the meat off and then freeze it and the broth to use later.

after 30 minutes the meat is STUCK on the bones still. Do I need to cook it longer?

I'm doing it right now and set the cooker for 30 minutes. I added some onion and celery seed (don't have fresh celery) plus 1.5 cups of water and the entire hen, cut up. Do you think 30 minutes is enough? I'm going to take the meat off the bones and freeze it for chicken and noodles next week.

It's permanently attached to two boards that are attached to each other in an L shape. So when I moved the feeder I also moved the boards it's attached to. It's all one unit.

We talked this morning and my husband is convinced that is not possible. He thinks it was hiding in the space between the feeder and the board it's attached to. I think he might be right-the feeder looks like this: http://www.southernstates.com/catalog/images/Product/large/06621215.jpg but I...

We got 15 chicks last Thursday and they're living, for the moment, in a box that is in a coop. The box is about 20-24" tall. We got 5 easter eggers, 5 red stars, and 5 silver laced wyandottes. The coop is all closed up with 1/2" hardware cloth on all openings and there is bedding in the coop...

wow-I'm pretty germophobic and I don't do all that. then again it would take a lot more than 3 minutes-our chickens are not that close to our house. We use elbows or whatever to turn on water to wash up but I don't freak out too much about the other stuff. My husband is a livestock farmer going...

I don't think there's a treatment. I guess call a vet and find out? The outbreak was about 3 yrs ago so they might not be at risk now. Unless your chicks are older and were from that time period.

Even 4 months seems like a long time. When I raised cornish cross (are they the same as cornish rock?) they were butchered at around 7 or 8 weeks and they were pretty darn big. Some of them were kinda crippled-the place we got them from said it's because of how fast they grow. Anyway, glad it...

Some people do raise their chickens for food, and I'm willing to bet the OP does too. She said she saved out 9 of the hens so I'm thinking that means the rest of the flock minus those 9 were butchered. I get that some people consider their chickens to be pets but not everyone does.

I didn't think people raised them for that long. Don't they get too big? Are you using them for eggs? reading comprehension is a good thing-I see now that you did keep them back for eggs. I've never heard of anyone using those kind of chickens for eggs. They seem like their legs get funky when...

I don't necessarily like or dislike any of them. I just don't feel like fishing for eggs under a hen. But with roll-out boxes I worried that if they went broody they would obsess over where the heck their egg disappeared to. Or maybe they wouldn't care unless they saw a nest full of eggs. eta...

Oh wait. 4 sq feet is for a coop which they don't usually stay in all day. For a tractor/run they probably need more.

oh also if you want to try adding protein, cat food is a good way to do that. I just throw in a couple of handfuls.

4 sq feet is the general rule. No idea why someone would think that was too small. :/

If we put in roll-out nest boxes do we need to worry about buying breeds that tend to go broody?

We thought it wouldn't be necessary but as our hens got older, we had a lot more broken eggs (sometimes the innards were all gone and sometimes they weren't) but even worse, poopy eggs. I'm talking a half inch thick layer of poop on some. It got to the point where I had to scrub 90% of the eggs...

Thank you. I'm going to go scout out the dollar stores this week and see what kind of rugs I can find for cheap. I also found these online-I wonder if anyone has tried these in an existing nest box. http://www.cornerstone-farm.com/equipment/roll-out-nest-bottom/

I have some questions. Since we're starting with new chicks soon we want to modify our nest boxes so that the eggs will roll out and away. We had a lot of problems with broken eggs (some we just found the shells so maybe some being eaten as well) and had a big problem with very poopy eggs. We...

Thanks everyone. I thought I'd feel better today and I think I do a little, but I had to get something from the freezer and there are my chickens. bummer. I think I'll have to wait a few weeks to eat one. We only kept a couple of them and gave the rest to other family members and friends. Mainly...