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    What chicken parts do you give to your dogs?

    We have two terriers. We save hearts, livers and the body cavity scrapings which may include lung, trachea, fat and bits of clotted blood. All that goes in a pot with water, a dash of garlic salt and cooked until done. The water turns to a broth. Our dogs go nuts over this concoction added as a...
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    Need insight processing cross x

    Following gutting, our CC go into an iced water tank to cool down. After about an hour in the chill tank they go into a cooler with ice. They are left on ice for 24 hrs then we do a final clean up, dry off, shrink bagged and put in freezer.
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    What to feed broilers

    This year we started all our 7 batches of 30 broiler chicks on 22% Nutrena meatbird non medicated crumbles for the first 3 weeks. We then switched them over to a 21% ration we grind and mix ourselves. The chicks did fantastic on the Nutrena. The only death loss we experienced over the 7 batches...
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    When to stop feeding prior to butchering

    We raised and processed 7 batches of 30 Cornish Cross this year. On the first two batches we withheld food 12 hrs before processing and left access to water. We had to deal with lots of green watery stinky poop during processing. Pulling food 48hrs before processing and free access to water cut...
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    New from texas

    Raising broilers on pasture in the Texas panhandle. Learning to deal with heat, wind and drought.
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