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    Help support ethics in agriculture

    Updated the blog to help explain our focus: http://blog.ethicalagriculture.org/2013/12/what-is-ethical-agriculture-its-farming.html
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    Help support ethics in agriculture

    One of the biggest issues with the pastured poultry industry is the lack of processors. My nearest processor is 3 hours away in another state and it isn't Animal Welfare Approved. You could process yourself under the exemption, but that could never be Animal Welfare Approved and would cost a...
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    Help support ethics in agriculture

    I've been working with a non-profit that promotes animal welfare and sustainable farming. The website (EthicalAgriculture.Org) officially launches on Jan 1st, but we've just started a Facebook page to help promote what we're doing. Check it out, give us a "like", and please share any posts you...
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    Eyes swollen and runny, act tired, then die. Lost over two dozen chickens in a week. Ideas?

    I have about 200 chickens in several different flocks. Some are in small breeding flocks of 10 hens and a rooster, and then a flock of about 90 hens and 10 roosters in a pastured hoop house that is moved to fresh grass every day. The hens in the pasture had been laying about a month when they...
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    Where to get shrink wrap bags for freezing chicken?

    Quote: X2 !
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    The decomposition steps of castrating a cockerel ((GRAPHIC PICS!!!))

    Quote: I don't get that at all. If the animal is being eaten then it is removed from the gene pool and any influence over the population. What evolutionary advantage is gained by not feeling pain during death that would enable that animal's offspring to have a better chance of survival over...
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    I have baby-itis

    6chickens in St. Charles : The dad is this Silkie rooster, and we think the mom is his daughter, the blue Rosecomb/Silkie mix. What do you think? There's another daughter of his who started out quite pale grey, then grew up into a pigeon gray hen, but we never see her dating the rooster like...
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    what is the largest breed of chicken?

    Quote: That dude must have a twin brother in NC because I've seen that guy!
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    White leghorn or White Rock!!!19 weeks and i still don't know!

    Looks like white earlobes, so I guess leghorn. That rooster would be real scrawny for a rock.
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    I have baby-itis

    6chickens in St. Charles : But look! Two are WHITE! I don't have any white chickens! If the other chicks are blue and black, then these must be splashes. Splashes have two copies of the blue gene and many look white. If both parents are blue then you should get 50% blue, 25% black, and 25%...
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    Blue chickens thread

    Quote: A blue rooster over a typical barred hen would give you 1/2 blue sex-links and 1/2 black sex-links. All the pullets would be either solid blue or black and all the cockerels would be either blue barred or black barred. Ok, so, I'm only a little slow...I would love to get some blue rock...
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    Blue chickens thread

    Quote: A blue rooster over a typical barred hen would give you 1/2 blue sex-links and 1/2 black sex-links. All the pullets would be either solid blue or black and all the cockerels would be either blue barred or black barred.
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    Muscovy keepers share your pics!

    Quote: So cute, but just wanted to say if you look anything like your avatar I can understand why they haven't hatched any before.. I'm much better looking than that! Well, ok, maybe not much......
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    New skid for day-range shelter

    We made it through Irene ok. Lost a big plum tree and were without power for two days, but it wasn't too bad. The good news is that this shelter survived without a blemish even with all the strong wind and flying debris. We now have moved it out to the pasture and have put up the poultry...
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    Any one cross a red broielr (freedom ranger) with a white broiler???

    I'm one step closer to producing red sex-links using a ranger rooter:
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