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I got white rocks last year from Mt. Healthy hatchery, just for fun and for something different. They were really really nice birds. I ended up selling them and going a different way, but I wouldnt hesitate to get them from them again. They were really good size birds, without being...

I wish just one person could give me a link showing where commercially raised chickens are given hormones.

What is there in that wiki article that has anything to do with broody chickens? I firmly do NOT believe that hens wont go broody unless theres a dozen eggs to sit on. I collect my girls eggs several times every single day. They never have a chance to sit on more than a couple of eggs for an...

I free range for the most part. Its really hard to tell how much I feed. I know thats not scientific, but thats how it is. When the feed bins get low, I go get more. I think they are eating more now, because the bug population is about shot, tho there is still green grass for them to munch...

Quote: If it were me, I would get some chicks when the hatcheries start offering them...I think February or so they start. Grow them up as the days are getting longer. Get a few sex links (black stars, red stars, golden comets) as they will start laying really early, around 4 months. That...

A friend of mine gets 500 red stars every other year for selling eggs. He also sells my egg-stras. There have been times, when his flock has been on their second year, that he has called me, pleading for some eggs, from my flock of 50, because he's not getting any. And I really don't...

Quote: Change her zip code. If she's in one pen, put her in another. Thats enough to throw her off. Thats all Ive ever done, and it hasnt failed to work.

Quote: No reason to, other than if you just want to.

Isnt that leg hook fascinating? I imagine it would take a lot of practise to become proficient at it. Ill confess that chasing a chicken down that I particularly need to get my hands on, isnt very easy, with them having 10 acres to run from me. Even getting them in a corner they easily out...

Quote: Or check their teeth.

Culling a chick...one of the icky-est things a chicken owner will have to do. Now we are talking about whats best for the chick, not whats best for YOU. Because in all the threads asking about the best way to do it, it always comes down to what makes the person doing it feel the best. Its not...

Southerndesert, is that a wild bunny in your first picture?

I do not treat sick chickens. Nor do I use antibiotics. Knock wood, I havent had any illness for years, and hope it stays that way. That being said, Im an absolute FRUITCAKE about visitors to the farm. I allow NONE. When I sell birds, I have meeting places where I meet people. Ive likely...

I keep my chicks in the brooders in the house until they start hopping up on the edge, around 3 weeks. Its then time to go outside! I free range most of my birds. I have 2 breeder pens set up with birds that Im hatching eggs from, for replacements. I will keep them in there until I have...

You might want to post that on the meat thread. Theres a lot of good information there about the different ways to kill chickens.

Quote: The American Indian did not die off from white man disease, majorly, they died off from the introduction of white man corn. Corn became their main staple, and what happened was they got poor nutrition, poor immune system due to poor nutrition, and all their teeth rotted from the sugar...

Corn makes chickens heat up. Corn is worthless feed for chickens. ------------------------------- Corn is the major ingredient in most all poultry feed. Farmers have been feeding corn to chickens as long as there has been corn, and chickens. However, way back when, chickens were free...