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    Heritage meat birds----Your favorites and why

    I totally agree with you regarding the cornish crosses. After my first year with them I was disgusted and bought barred rock roos the next year. My hubby wined about the "scrawny chickens" cuz they weren't as big as the cornish and I went back to the cornish the next year. Now, I finally have...
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    Stretching neck out and gulping?

    I had one doing that and when I picked it up the crop was very full and hard. I worried that it might have been eating the bedding (pine shavings and shredded paper) and that it became impacted. I massaged the crop gently until I felt it get softer; tried to move the hard part up and down to...
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    When can my meaties go outside?

    This is my 5th year raising meat (cornish cross) birds. I keep them in the basement under a heat lamp for the first 1.5 weeks, then they go outside in a chicken tractor. I have a heat lamp on in there whenever the outside temp is below 65 until they are fully feathered. I open the door to the...
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    Egg Bound Hen for a Week....at a loss!!!

    In Backyard Poultry magazine a few months ago there was a similar problem. The answer man there said that if you can't get it to pass, you may have to break the egg and CAREFULLY remove the shells so you don't injure her insides. I hope you don't have to do that, but I would try that rather...
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    poo on their rear?

    Pasty butt is fairly common but usually not affecting all the chicks. I use a warm, wet paper towel to dissolve the poo so I don't pull any fuzz off. It takes awhile, but you can wet it and then let the chick go back into the fold for a few minutes so you don't have to hold it. After 5...
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