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    I am looking for help with this Digital thermostat

    http://incubatorwarehouse.com/digital-electronic-egg-incubator-thermostat.html My question is: how does the heating element connect into it? Picture? Does the thermostat plug into the wall, then the heating element plug into it? What connector type? Hoping for help
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    Only a head left

    I closed the house up last night, but this morning the chickens were out. Something slid the door over and got a rooster. It then tried to pull the rooster out under the people door not the chicken door. What could this be. Today I will redo the chicken door and the people door. I will try...
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    Only a head left

    I went to the chicken yard this evening and found a chicken head. No feathers, no digging, no blood anywhere. My pen is surrounded by a 4' no climb horse fence and then some rope going about 2 feet up. I had the donkeys in a fence surrounding them until last week and now this. I think there...
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    How to Butcher a Chicken

    treehouse, Sorry for the late response. Question: You mention keeping a meat cleaver handy. How do you use it. By the way, we recently processed two roosters, one old, one young. The diference in ease was significant.
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    How to Butcher a Chicken

    I will email you. Once a hunter wanted to show me pictures from his deer hunting trip, but wanted to know if I would be squeamish. I decided to explain the difference between a hunter and a farmer: A hunter looks through his scope at an animal far away, then pulls the trigger. Then he walks...
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    How to Butcher a Chicken

    treehouse, I was waiting for someone else to answer (even my wife), but I will answer what I know: Cleaning a chicken is not really that different than other animals. The main difference is the killing method and the feathers. If you skin the birds as we do, then you will find it rather...
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    Should I be proud of myself, or ashamed?

    I thinkjipjip got it right (except I don't know what a chook is). Chickens are farm animals. I guess some people think of them as pets. Of course, we should minimize anything that would resemble torture (because that makes us sick), but when it is time for one to die, that is our...
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    I have a watering problem...

    Birds don't drink the way we do. They can't suck. If they have to drink water at their feet, they must hold some in their beaks, then point the beaks up to the sky to let the water roll down. That is their benefit to it being higher. Our benefit is as already mentioned: if it is low enough...
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    I have a watering problem...

    OK, but I want to really understand. We have had chickens for years. At first we watered on the ground, but that does not work (as you guys already know). Then we watered from a hanging feeder high enough up that the birds could barely reach it. That worked great, but they did spill it by...
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    How to Butcher a Chicken

    Skinning or plucking. I guess we have done about 20 chickens over the years. That does not count the quail and ducks. We have never plucked one, we only skinned. The reason was that we heard it was easier, and we were going to remove the skin anyway for cooking or after cooking. I really...
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