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    EGG SALAD for my chickens????

    No problems....My MIL has a problem when it comes to cooking...she overcooks portion wise for everything.... Mine have gotten lots of egg salad over the last year.... They love perogies too pretty much anything and everything that the dog wont eat the chicken get.. I have 25 ISA browns.....It...
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    Deep litter: friend or foe?

    DLM = Friend I have 25 ISA browns 8x12 coop I used 400lbs of hardwood woodstove pellets in mine. I put the litter in July 1st 2009 Changed it March 1st 2010 No amonia smell, but I have decent ventalation No poop boards, no nada I throw treats or scratch in the coop and let the chickens dig...
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    The Agony of Vacations....

    When my wife's water broke 1 week early, I simply filled the 7gallon waterer, and filled thier feeder and dumped an extra bag in the 1/4barrel of grit they have. 3 days later I came back to 60 eggs in the nest box and healthy happy chickens.... Quite a bit of food was left over and only had...
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    Etc... Freezer Beef Prices

    I am paying 2.29 a lb cut and wrapped for black angus as of wednesday, taxes included etc. etc. after butchering there was 800lbs of meat cut and wrapped....Not sure how big the original animal was as I never ask, just interested in the final bill. I am splitting it with 3 others as this is...
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    Please calm me down, my northern friends

    Well it was -40C here yesterday.....I have one 175W IR bulb going in the insulated 8x12 coop and 25 ISA browns in there.... No problems yet and it has been cold like this for weeks now.... No frozen combs so far, avging 1egg/hen/day. Water has turned to slush 2 times so far but I was a dummy...
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    CHAINSAWS Big Boys Toys.

    one other point.....if you are using a chainsaw, at least get yourself a pair of safetly chaps...nothing will mess up your day like cutting into your leg..... OH and dont sit a hot chainsaw in the snow....learned that one the hard way back in the day....froze up solid when I went back to use it...
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    Do chickens eat significantly less in the winter?

    I have went from from 40lbs of laying crumbles to 80lbs per week since it started getting cold. 25 ISA browns avg'ing 24-25 eggs per day. They also get kitchen scraps and lately they have been getting 1 mixed icecream pail of brown bread crusts and cabbage thrown in the coop in the morning...
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    What's wrong with this Egg/Chicken??? Pictures

    I live in Manitoba and it is around -40'C with the windchill right now, I get the odd crinkled egg like that, mebbe one out of every 14-15 dozen... Eggs like that go to the dogs or get given away as "free" eggs....Just dont feel right about selling a wrinkly...
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    How many meaties you going to raise this spring

    25 Cornish cross giants 10 Comercial White turkeys Ordering the meaties for June 2nd, and the turkeys for June 6th. Meaties should go in the freezer mid august, turkeys mid sept. Unfortunately my wife wont let me get anymore than that, and I had to beg for the turkeys.
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    Preaching to the choir... PICS

    This is all about the all mighty dollar. Most people don't want to pay $2/lb from a farmer when they can get it for 99cents/lb at Wallmart. The only way you can get it for 99cents a lb is to have factory farms.... What I find funny though is people who are willing to pay $2k for the latest...
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    Spots inside my eggs.... what are they?

    I had one customer ask me about these....I explained what they were and she went EWWW. So I asked her if she ate chicken....she said YES....I asked her what the difference was? She laughed and saw the light and still buys my eggs...
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    Moving.... big dilemma with the chickens... =(

    The one suggestion if you are going to have them in the basement is to build a enclosed room and line all 8 sides with vinyl flooring and hook up and exhaust fan on a timer. Put a heppa filter on the air inlet (smaller than the exhaust) and do a neg pressure closed system. Personally I...
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    Whose at the bottom of your pecking order

    Sadly I think I caused my poor "drumstick" to be on the bottom of the pecking order, she turned out more sandy colored rather than brown like the rest of my ISA browns, so from the beginning she has been the chicken who I used when I introduced the chickens to the dogs... Since I could tell her...
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    what does your oyster shell and grit feeder look like?

    I use a low 10gal planting container for my grit, holds 80lbs...I dont know if they will ever go through all of this, but I put a mix of stage 1 fine and stage 3 adult grit into it....well not so much a mix as 1 40lb bag of each mixed up. Oyster shells go into a 1kg coffee can, they use about...
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    Will Eating a Whole Mouse Hurt a Hen?

    Mine have eaten frogs and a TONNE of garter snakes (our homestead is on a snake migration route)....No ill effects just dont get between the chickens and the newly found protein source...My girls would get pretty possessive of any bits of meat that end up in thier run ESPECIALLY if it is still...
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