This is our first year doing chickens. We have done turkeys in the past and moving to chickens this year. We had an accident in our brooder tonight. Chicks are 17 days old. In the barn we had a bottle of pine sol dump over. I am guessing it was spilled 3-4 hours before it was noticed. The...
I am raising meat birds for the first time this Spring. I have read a lot and watched many YouTube videos. Two things I have not seen anyone address are:
1. How do you cool them down after butchering? How long? What temperatures? Ice and water? Just ice?
2. Do people clean their work surfaces...
Hello... i have raised turkeys in the past and had them processed at a local processor. I want to start to raise meat chickens next year and process them myself. I am in the process of building a whizbang picker. i am curious what type of scalder equipment is recommended. i have searched the...
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I have a stargazing turkey. he is around 6 months old now, and started stargazing around a month ago, so he was already fairly old when his stargazing began. he is somewhat smaller than the other toms but still much larger than my hens. i have 26 bourbon reds. i am scheduled...