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    Chicken straining to poop

    Good morning folks. When we went out to check out chickie girls this morning I noticed one of them was pretty puffed up, she looked like she was straining to poop and had a slight prolapse. Little bits of watery white poop came out and then she stood upright again and unpuffed and her cloaca...
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    What breed might these be?

    My sister and I both bought sapphire gems from the same store 2 weeks apart. They look nothing alike. So what breed do you think these are? So far Google has told me black sex link (which wouldn't make sense considering the accidental rooster), barnevelder, and blue laced red Wyandotte 🤷‍♀️
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    If you don't mind my asking, how do you free range? I'd love to but we live on 9.5 acres of mostly wooded land and I'm so so paranoid about predators!
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    We've seen turkeys on our trail cams, it's definitely something he wants to try!
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    We just processed our first batch and it went well, considering the task at hand. We learned a lot along the way. I'm glad you mentioned consistency. We let ours go a bit past 8 weeks because they were still so small. We had a lot of cold rainy weather here at the start of spring and I think...
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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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