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    What's your worst incurred rooster injury (or worst you've heard of)?

    Father's day (as in this week), I was trying to catch a roo to send him to freezer camp. He cut me from under my nose to below my jawline. My arm is still sore from the resulting tetanus shot and I'm still finishing up the antibiotics. Now I have built a leg hook and bought a face shield and...
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    Fire ants in the coop

    I don`t know how it works, but it sounds like it shouldn`t. I can testify to the fact that corn meal killed 3 large colonies on my property that had been there for at least 2 years. They didn`t move, they were dead. Maybe it doesn`t work all the time, but for not much more than a $1, it`s worked...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Obligatory first egg picture... Partridge rock hen. First egg is the one on the upper right. Others are from Aunt's chickens across the street.
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    Are my birds yarded or free-range?

    Quote: Yeah, but that's the USDA most around here seem to have a more strict definition. Mine don't have a choice but to be outside. Even the coop once completed will be open air. I'm a lot more worried about them surviving the heat and humidity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast than I am our...
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    Are my birds yarded or free-range?

    Everyone seems to think I've gone / am going way overboard on the space. I'm aiming to have a low enough birds / acre ratio that they do not kill all of the grass, from what I've read I could have 15-30 in that area before they'd kill everything green. I figure it's a win-win all around if they...
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    Are my birds yarded or free-range?

    "The distinction is that free-range poultry are either totally unfenced, or the fence is so distant that it has little influence on their freedom of movement." So I've selected the survivors (already eaten one and seven are in the paper to be sold and will be eaten if not). The eight I'm...
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    How old will chickens start to crow?

    Quote: 10.86 weeks (seriously), I have a SQL query that computes the age of my chicks for me (I'm a Database Administrator). One of mine just started crowing. Well he needs some practice, but he's got the cock-a-doodle part down if a little hoarse. Chris
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    Dangerous chemical

    Fred's Hens : Horrible that such dangerous chemical elements should be combined in that way! Michigan is more polluted with the stuff and than any other state!!! Hawaii is entirely surrounded by the stuff. Chris
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    Partridge Rock Thread

    Quote: First thing I noticed was bigger / redder combs and the presumed males seemed to feather slower on their backs. Now they seem to be starting to show some of the adult coloring differences so I'm getting pretty sure on the sex at least on those that I can detect that coloring. All of...
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    Partridge Rock Thread

    Quote: Mt Healthy is where I got my straight run of 16 (ordered 15) partridge rocks. So far so good they're 10 weeks old now. I ordered straight run but I wonder if they were sexed and I was sent 50/50 'cause last time I checked it appeared that they are exactly 8 cockerals and 8 pullets. Chris
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    Rattlesnakes? Kill or scare away?

    Quote: Not politically correct, but I'd shoot them. I keep a snub-nose .357 loaded with snake shot on the tractor for this very purpose. I have two small children including one very autistic one. I cannot afford the luxury of permitting poisonous snakes on the property. Not to mention if I...
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    Fire ants and chickens.

    I came home yesterday from work and went out to check on my 7-week old chickens in the tractor. Apparently I had moved the tractor over a fire ant mound and could see from a distance a couple of chickens trashing in agony in the fire ant mound. As I got closer I realized they were dustbathing...
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    MISSISSIPPI! The Magnolia State right here! ;)

    Southeast corner of the sate about 35 miles West of Mobile, AL. Impatiently waiting for eggs / meat from my 16 nuggets but they're only ~3 weeks old so I gotta wait. So in the meantime I'm busy spoiling them. Chris
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    Partridge Rock Thread

    I have 16 in the brooder (first time chicken owner) they are only 2.5 weeks old... So far we call them our little feathered or flying pigs. Chris
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    Question about Kerosene

    You will probably find that the kerosene sold at the gas station is in fact also 1-K kerosene. Though it will be dyed, that will not hurt the heater other than color the wick.
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