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    Found Missing Chicken After Two Weeks Wedged Behind Hay Bales

    I'm sad to say we had to put her down. She just wouldn't make any effort to eat, stand or even open her eyes. I think her internal organs just weren't working after not eating for so long. It was a terrible choice to make, but seemed the most compassionate thing to do. This is a great group, and...
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    Found Missing Chicken After Two Weeks Wedged Behind Hay Bales

    She doesn't seem to have any injuries. She can stand, but too weak to want to walk. My hubby found her when moving some of last year's hay bales out of the barn. It seems she fell straight down between a gap in the bales. She was basically in a hole. We count our chickens every night before...
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    Found Missing Chicken After Two Weeks Wedged Behind Hay Bales

    You are all great, and I am trying all the ideas. She may be too far gone to save, but if she has even a little will to survive, I'm determined to try.
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    Found Missing Chicken After Two Weeks Wedged Behind Hay Bales

    Thanks for your thoughts. I want to at least try to help her. She seems like she has some fight left in her. I also gave her a little bit of yogurt too.
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    Found Missing Chicken After Two Weeks Wedged Behind Hay Bales

    She is very weak and feels like she hardly weighs anything. She could not have had any food and water where we found her. I am trying to give her some scrambled egg bits and then syringing some water with electrolytes in the side of her beak. She isn't swallowing unless I syringe the water in...
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    Finding a Dead Chicken Every Morning - HELP!

    I am very sorry for your loss. I hope you can figure out what is happening. You feel so helpless when something like this is happening. I may have a similar situation. Two days in a row now I've found a chicken almost dead and very lethargic. We are having extreme cold and have a red heat lamp...
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    Ok Folks how does this sound...

    I hope you can make this work at a profit! It would be great to hear your final results. This is the first year we've raised cornish, and we sold our surplus to co-workers for $2.75/lb. We still had very little profit, and we didn't figure anything for our time/labor. Fortunately, we had no...
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    Does age/sex affect the taste/tenderness of Jumbo Cornish Cross?

    Thank you both for the replies! Sounds like sooner rather the later would be best. I sure don't want to lose any, and it is very hot and humid right now in Illinois. They are in a tractor outside with fans and ice bottles scattered around them right now. If we do this again, it is going to be in...
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    Does age/sex affect the taste/tenderness of Jumbo Cornish Cross?

    What would you think would be a good weight to process the hens? We're not processing them ourselves, so the whole group is going in together.
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    Does age/sex affect the taste/tenderness of Jumbo Cornish Cross?

    I have 35 cornish rocks, probably 1/2 male and 1/2 female. They are now 47 days old, and two of the largest males weigh 8 lbs and two of the smaller females weigh 5.5 lbs. We were planning on taking them in to be processed next week, but could also go the following week. Since this is our...
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    PLEASE HELP...Is this poop normal?

    I am new to meat birds, and ours are about five weeks old. They go all the time and it is soft, but not like diarrhea. Maybe you can try posting on the emergencies/diseases section to try to get some advice.
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    What to do with chicken livers, gizzards, etc.?

    Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have to see if the processor will same them for us. Jeeper 1540: We just have 35 cornish crosses.
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    What to do with chicken livers, gizzards, etc.?

    We have our first Cornish crosses at about five weeks old. While doing research on costs to raise and possible selling prices, one article mentioned selling chicken livers, gizzards, hearts and feet at $3.50/lb. I think I'll be fortunate to get $2.50 a pound for the whole chickens. Do processors...
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    Hens pecking holes in eggs, what does this mean?

    I haven't had this problem, but from other posts I've read, it can become a big problem. Advice that I can remember was to check the nest boxes and remove the eggs frequently. If they poke all the way through and realize how tasty they are, they will go after other eggs. Then it is apparently a...
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    New Changes To Our Website....new Order Policy

    FYI - This may not show up on all computers, but on my computer your top tabs were covered by the line "specializing in rare and exotic poultry", so they were difficult to read.
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