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r4eboxer - If you are worried about selling processed chickens, sell 'live' ones and offer to take them to the processor that you use. You can charge a fee to take them to the processor, and a fee to deiliver the finished bird. But all you did was sell a live, breathing, pooping bird. If you...

Fred's Hens : We better pull this back to the topic now. We could fill pages on gardening. Sorry to have used it as an analogy, but it seemed appropriate. Something tells me you have a little latitude Sir. (would have been a much better quip if I could figure out a way to use longitude...

Maybe a better question is how the heck do I NOT quote myself and look like a dingleberry... <sigh>

Quote: I'd love to hear what the "OT's" have to say about this, as I'm curious. I'm not a newbie, not an OT. Still learning. I think if I ever get to a place where I think I know it all about poulty, it's probably time for me to bow out. Anyway - I've tried Bag Balm, Vaseline, and even a...

Quote: I absolutely LOVE mine... The best way I have found to prevent leaking is to NOT use milk jugs... I use the large gallon gatorade jugs and just use large wire ties to attach them to the fencing... To put the hole in the bottom of a jug, I couldn't find a drill bit so I heated up the end...

Quote: Well to get technical all that really matters is that he is a big frog now... Kinda dating myself here... ahhhh the good old days...

Quote: Well you asked for it.... and this bird is healthy vibrant, and has an amazing vocabulary...

Quote: You also aren't sending it "to freezer camp". I don't know why, but that phrase irritates me. You're butchering or processing your chicken. Period. It might sound nicer, but you're still killing the bird, plucking and gutting it and putting it in the freezer. Actually that is correct...

Quote: They literally kick and bite them to death. They are relentless. My aunt has a miniature to keep the coyotes from her dogs. That little donkey runs the horses around, and controls everything on her little farm. They could give two cents about chickens, until something tries to get near...

Quote: Alfalfa does VERY well in the desert. It likes water, but not wet. Easy to grow, perennial, deep roots and loves to be roughed up. once established, they can eat it pretty much to the ground, and it will grow back in a week, or just run em through a little while every couple of days...

Well I suppose based on bloody noses, broken fingers, scratched forehead, and stubbed toes... you may be on to something. Thanks!!!

TruGritCkn - Letting them run has always seemed a little indignant to me. We place them in a cloth funnel like thing, and hang them head down to bleed. The other benefit is that it calms them on the block. They just lay there, wrapped up and are calm as calm can be. I'm not an OT though...

Please tell me how you sweeten water? It does sound smart (for humans as well?). wyododge wrote: 5. The greatest thing about lakes and streams is mother nature has had an opportunity to sweeten the water. You would be well advised to let her do the same to the water your chickens get. Not...

I actually forgot one... The only snap judgement you should make when raising chickens is to shoot the predator that has your bird in it's mouth.

Quote: I have the same theory with kids. One of the main reasons I moved us to the country 9 years ago. Boys should be dirty, bloody, broken, muddy, wet, climbing, falling, shooting, fishing or hunting every day (and NOT getting in trouble for it!!!!!).

Ok, well I haven't been slapped in a while so I will chime in... 1. The only way to fully appreciate livestock is to kill, butcher and eat them. 2. If you say Awwww ------ -------- ---------, your decision based on that statement it is most likely making chickens less healthy. 3. Dirt makes...