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    Trials And Tribulations Of Suburban Meat Bird Production

    Interesting threads . Like you I grew up on a farm , looking for another now . But four years ago in suburbia I ordered 25 of the cornish X from Murray . I definately overfed them . The more I fed them the more they wanted . They were monstrous in size . I had two or three that got so big so...
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    Jersey Giants

    Wow...those are pretty. Ty id like to get some blue ones
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    My Neighbor shot at Me and My Chickens This Morning

    Sounds like they should heed the roosters crow and get up and go find a job . I lived in suburbia for awhile and I couldn't stand it that I had no chickens . So I went and got four laying hens and a rooster . Even though it was not allowed at that time . Well my neighbors didn't seem to mind the...
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    Best incubator ever

    Back when I was a kid I was fortunate enough to grow up on a small farm . We had lottsa chickens , rabbits , geese , ducks , coupla pigs cows and horses . But I loved them chickens and rabbits . We had about fifty chickens of different varieties . Everything from bantys to australorps . We'd let...
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    Bucket incubator

    Back when I was a kid I would put eggs from the henhouse onto a towel that was in a cardboard box . I just draped a piece of sheet over it with a light bulb dangling over the eggs for the proper temp....forget what that was . Put an X on one side of the eggs to keep track when you turn them over...
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    Jersey Giants

    Ahhhh....ty yes very helpful . But one last question if you will....pray tell , what is a blue chicken ?
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    Jersey Giants

    Hi guys , im new to the site here but I had a question thats been plaguing me for years . If I put some white jersey giant hens in with a black jersey giant rooster and vice versa , would I eventually get a spotted giant much like a silver spangled hamburg . I'm getting ready to move back to the...
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