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    Converting The Flock To Free Range

    Quote: All of the younger ones are Production Reds from McMurray (RIR). The older ones are RIR & RIW mixes.
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    Converting The Flock To Free Range

    Quote: Yeah... that is what we are doing now... Hopefully we will have as much success as you did.
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    Converting The Flock To Free Range

    Quote: Well... segregation is alive and well in my little coop. We had 2 RIR/RIW mix hens + 1 full blood RIR hen at first. Then we incubated some of their eggs (which were 2/3 RIW & 1/3 RIR... they are white chickens). The RIR/RIW mix hate the whites and won't let them forage with them...
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    Converting The Flock To Free Range

    Quote: Well... so far not making food available in the chicken coop is very effective for getting them out of the coop. Now they all huddle at my back door and peck on the door. My wife went out with some chops and it was pandemonium. If there had been any animal rights activists standing...
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    Converting The Flock To Free Range

    Well I keep finding out things that I have, apparently, done wrong. I have 24 chickens or so. 19 of them are about 12 weeks old. The 5 older chicks have been roaming around and doing the free range thing pretty well but I am running into a problem with the large group of youngsters. After...
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    What is a good age to process RIR Cockerels?

    Quote: Interesting... Thanks for your input. We are at about 8 weeks now. They are mighty small... but I guess small would be better than tough.
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    What is a good age to process RIR Cockerels?

    I have around 10 cockerels that I bought from McMurray (Production Reds) about 8 weeks ago. I am reading that I should be processing them by now (of course those articles are on meat birds that, I assume, grow much faster). They seem too small t process yet... Does anyone with Production...
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    Baby Pygmy Goats - Pics

    Thanks for the compliments. This is our first new goat since buying the ones we have and this one is a doll for sure. That brings up another question too. Our working assumption right now is that this is a female. Can you tell right away with goats or does that take time?
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    Baby Pygmy Goats - Pics

    My pygmy goat Nannie had a baby pygmy goat this morning. She has a history of having more than one but we only have one so far. We bought her in January and this is my first dealings with goats... period. So... is it pretty much over or do goats tend to have a space of time between one birth...
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    What's The Process

    Quote: Agreed... this does seem like the type of thing that can get out of hand very quickly.
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    What's The Process

    Quote: Thanks... that is very helpful information...
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    What's The Process

    I have never processed a chicken myself. I clicked on the banner of one of the fine BYC sponsors and they have a pretty good deal going on surplus birds. Seeing as I am woefully inexperienced I figure I am pushing my luck even buying 50 of them ($35 for 50) but that is the smallest amount in...
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    Incorporating New Birds Into The Flock

    We incubated a few eggs and they hatched on October 17th 2008. We kept them in the house with us until a little after the first of the year and then we moved them to the back yard and then we let them roam free range and they bed up at night in the chicken coop. Here is the problem. The hens...
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    RIR Hen Laid A White Egg

    Quote: VERY good to hear. Actually one of my hens is RIR and the other 2 are RIR/RIW mix... So it might have been one of the mixes that laid the egg. Thanks so much for your reply.
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    RIR Hen Laid A White Egg

    This may not be a problem... I'm not sure... but I thought I had better check in with the experts on this one... So... all you experts (I consider those who deal with chickens on a daily basis to be the experts... I am a newbie though. ).... I have 3 RIR hens who have continued to lay...
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