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    Anyone in the SF Bay Area?

    I posted a question you might be able to answer for me under the Meat forum. Thanks Rich
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    Processor in the SF BAy Area

    Can anyone reccomend a processor who can butcher my chickens in the Bay Area? I'm Newark/Fremont area. Thanks! Rich
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    Chick with bloody butt

    Well, we are a dog family, so no cat crate (lol, the chicks are in a rigged up big wire dog kennel as a brooder!) so I separated out the chick with the hurt butt and the runt so they both could take it easy for a bit. I used a big ole balikbayan box. Thanks for the info. Rich
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    Chick with bloody butt

    I didn't know if I should put this here or in the disease area but decided to put it here. One of my chicks has a bloody butt, what should I do to help?
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    Weapons Survey...

    Good thread, and thought I know better than to go there-- I just wanted to point out that Trauma centers, though they do see more gunshot wounds than they should, are statistically full of automobile accident victims and even falling victims are larger in number than gunshot victims. My source...
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    Chick dead after breaking a hole

    Thanks for the replies.
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    Chick dead after breaking a hole

    A friend and I are hatching out our first chicks and we had one who punched a hole on day 21 (Monday) and than nothing else. Today--Wednesday we knew he was dead so we opened his shell up. He was very dead but fully developed. nothing looked out of place. He looked just like the other chicks...
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    What age do you slaughter?

    I had a friend tell me that she understood how I could go out and catch a salmon, kill it and eat it but the thought of raising a chicken or rabbit to butchering weight, killing and eating them disturbed her greatly. This from an educated, meat eating (and for that matter she loves to cook and...
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    Why this warning from McMurray:

    "These birds are not recommended for raising at altitudes above 5000 feet. THis is the last line in the text for McMurray Jumbo Cornish X Rocks, http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/product/jumbo_cornish_x_rocks.html I was just wondering what effect altitude has on this chicken breed.
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    Which dog breeds co-exist well with chickens?

    Great Discussion! I am just setting up my first try at backyard chickens and I had already decided the biggest mitigating factor was going to be my boxer and my cattle dog super mix. It is the cattle dog I am most worried about. She instigates. The boxer never chased squirrels until after we...
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    Saying Howdy

    Hey Folks I'm new to this board and to backyard chickens. What I would like to do is learn enough from this board and the others sites I am finding to raise some meat and egg chickens in my backyard. My first question for you is the viability of combining a coop or hutch with more than just...
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