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    Rooster confusion

    My sister's.
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    Rooster confusion

    The darker one I thought was a roo for a hot minute. The one to the back left is now getting red comb + waddles
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    Rooster confusion

    Raspberry, who I originally thought was a roo. (On the right in the pic of the 2)
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    Rooster confusion

    Is this a head dot?
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    Rooster confusion

    Hi all. This is a multi part post so please bear with me. Background: my sister and I bought sapphire gems from the same store (country max) 2 weeks apart. I posted a few photos of her one chicken on the BYC fb because at 8 weeks (s)he had a very red comb and waddle. The resounding consensus...
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    My husband is 100% on board with meat rabbits. I, on the other hand, had a pet French lop growing up (I know meat rabbits are different) but I cannot see them as anything other than pets lol!
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    After doing more research, per your mention of age, I do think maybe it isn't the right fit for us, currently, to breed our own. I didn't know how age played into cooking methods, so thank you for bringing that to my attention! I've only got 2 littles and my husband and myself and he hunts so we...
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    Thanks for the info! It's all great stuff to consider. I guess the main thing I want is quality. Quality meat and quality of life for the chicken. But I'm also interested in closing the circle and being more self sustaining. I'm only trying to feed my family so large quantities aren't my top...
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    Talk to me about ethical meat birds practices. This is my first year processing. I'm learning a lot as I go. We got 5 cornish× because that's what there seemed to be the most information about and they were most accessible to me. But I'm not going to lie, they're kinda making me depressed...
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    Advice needed for predator proofing this

    It does look graded that way but looking at the house we have a pond to the right and it's graded to run that way, the chickens would actually have high ground. We have more grading to do as well. After your feedback I'm definitely planning on taking out a lot of the trees. There's a lot dead...
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    Advice needed for predator proofing this

    They are actually my neighbors daffodils that the squirrels kindly replanted lol so I may just put them in a more... intentional spot. I feel like there's something more to this styrofoam peanut story 😅
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    Advice needed for predator proofing this

    The first is standing at the coop looking into the run. The second is standing at the coop and looking at my house. ETA: we will be removing all daffodils!
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    Advice needed for predator proofing this

    I was definitely planning hardware cloth for the perimeter! It's not as far from the house as it looks this picture was actually taken from my back door. I have a few more shots of the run area. I was hoping having them in the wooded brushy area would give them some shade and protection also...
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    Advice needed for predator proofing this

    Sorry I'm not an artist lol but this is the area I'm planning to put our coop/run. We own 9.5 mostly wooded acres so there are predators galore out there. The coop (green) will be completely locked up at night with chickens inside. I'm going to make sure there are no gaps or holes for any...
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    Hey :)

    Thanks for the feedback! I was trying to differentiate between my answers and the questions but it was a white background when I was writing lol. I'll stick to normal black for future posts ;)
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