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    Official BYC Poll: Do You Clip Your Chickens' Wings?

    I find that I only need to clip a wing when my girls are young. Once they put on a little weight and "learn" not to try to fly they stay put very nicely. On rare occasions I have had to clip wings twice. When that becomes necessary I always clip the opposite wing as they tend to learn to...
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    Official BYC Poll: What Is Your Perspective On Chickens For Meat

    I only eat my own chickens when they no longer lay eggs. I usually kill them in the fall rather than carrying them through a long cold winter. The poor old girls don't need to go through the winter and I don't need to be out skating on ice paths taking care of them. I have a special recipe for...
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    Outdoor Brooders

    This is one I made for older chicks when the weather was favorable. It could also be for a broody hen. The lid of the box needs to be redesigned but was cheap. I made it for nothing, from materials I had around but new materials would probably run less than $100...
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    Wing clipping...yay or nay

    I sometimes clip the flight feathers of chickens when I first let them out to free range as I have a couple of barriers that are only about 2' high. When I clip I only clip one wing. This throws off their balance and makes it even harder for them to fly. Usually they are comfortable and don't...
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    How do you keep your water from freezing?

    Here is my DYI solution that I posted a while go. It works well and I have used it for years in a very small coop where space is in short supply. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/diy-thread-lets-see-your-inventions.631861/page-297#post-14320040
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    Ended Contest #3 Cutest Baby Fowl - 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

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    Topic of the Week - Let's talk about euthanasia

    I never had much luck with a hatchet. I am not good with it and the chickens always ducked when they saw it coming. This led to some badly botched kills. When I have to kill chickens for whatever reason I found that for me the quickest and most humane way was to tie the chicken's feet together...
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    Ended Official BYC DIY Contest #2 - Show us Your Project and Win!

    Not sure I am doing this right but here is a link to the temporary brooder pen I built to house chicks this summer. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/brooder-pen
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    How many eggs do you get weekly? What do you do with the extra eggs?

    LOL. Sorry. In the mid-west all flour is bread flour and is usually high gluten. How are you going to make good bread otherwise. It works great with the cake. I don't think it makes much difference. There are no fancy ingredients in any of these recipes. I just use what I have on hand.
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    How many eggs do you get weekly? What do you do with the extra eggs?

    I bake. Today I made this cake. Easy Angel Food Cake (decadently better than box cake) Combine and beat until soft peaks form: 2 C egg whites 3/4 C sugar 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp salt Sift together well: 1 C flour 3/4 C sugar Fold sifted flour and sugar into eggs a...
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    Peeling Hard Boiled Farm Fresh Eggs

    Ingredients: fresh eggs Cooking Instructions: Place fresh eggs in a steamer basket. Add water to just under the eggs. Place on the stove. Turn on the heat and set timer for 30 minutes. When the timer goes off remove from the heat. Pour off the hot water and cover the eggs with very...
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    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    I have a very small flock of 6 - 8 hens and a very small coop. I looked for water heaters to keep water from freezing in winter and found that they were expensive and too large. I decided to try and build something that would be cheaper and fit better and this is what I came up with. I...
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    Ended Official BYC DIY Contest #1 - Show us Your Project and Win!

    Ok. Here is my solution to keeping water from freezing in the chicken coop. The weather man is predicting that a blast of winter is headed our way so I got out my home made water heater and took some pictures as I was putting it together. I am all ready for winter now. See it here.
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    Chickens Fav Treats!!!!

    Mine love anything that I find while I am weeding. I have a very interested audience watching for the best weeds and bugs.
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    Free ranging pros and cons?

    I don't like the idea of killing predators either though I have done it when things got out of control. I bought a heavy duty sling shot. I have never been able to hit anything with it but I have come close a time or two. Rocks whistling overhead have made believers of the neighborhood cats...
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