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    Unwanted dinner guest..............

    It killed them in the pen, the week before it got one in the barn yard. When the Owl flew out of the pen about 40-50 crows came out of the neighbors trees and attacked it in the air and again in the trees.. Not sure if the owl survived or not.
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    Unwanted dinner guest..............

    Found this fellow inside our chicken run yesterday morning. He had eaten a couple of hens. Not sure how he got in since the coup and run is closed at night, The doors are open in the daytime for the 25 hens to run around so he must have come in then.(I thought these with nocturnal) We...
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    Chicken tractor "density"

    We put 75 in our 80 Sq Ft tractors-this works fine for us.
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    Dragonlili, please read.TN Law the new BIG BROTHER!

    We should all keep in mind that our states won't function well without the tax it receives through our purchases. Playing by the rules benefits all AND keeps problems out the family business. Folks who live on the state lines (we do) frequently run into this problem, Every year the State of...
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    Photo of our two person processing setup

    The baskets on the left are just for transporting plucked checkens to to the next step. The killing cones are made out of a roll of metal left by construction guys during a remodel project. Its called "Rolex" used for forming metal around windows and doors, but anything would do as long as...
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    Photo of our two person processing setup

    We're in Western Wisconsin, state allows us to do 1000 or less birds per year without inspection-this varies by state however. Our sales are to the foks around this area, runs about $2.00 lb dressed out. Most of the birds are sold to repeat customers.
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    Photo of our two person processing setup

    This the set up we have refined over the years since there is only two of us to get the work done. I use the inverted cone system for bleeding out the birds, two scalding pots fueled by propane and a Pickwick Plucker. If everything is going well I can turn out a plucked chicken every 3...
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