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    Are first eggs "magic"?

    Cool! I've already got a husband with a "trade" but it's nice to know the official name of the first egg. (I'm still going to test the "luck" properties.) Thanks!
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    Are first eggs "magic"?

    The other day I was eating the very first egg laid by my silver-tip wyandotte, and it got me to wondering if there are any myths or lore about first eggs? I googled it, but I couldn't find anything. Surely, there must be something really special about that first egg! (If it increases fertility...
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    Hen laying soft eggs - should we cull?

    I'm interested in hearing some replies, because I'm having the same issue with one of my hens who's only a year and a half old. Eggs from other chickens are fine, but hers are paper-thin and break very easily; I can usually save them from being broken if I pay attention and grab it as soon as...
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    Differences of feeds for my layers

    I didn't see anything called all-flock, so I'm just going to keep bouncing back and forth between layer and meat-builder feed. They really attacked the meat-builder feed that I got them yesterday, so I figure that means they need it. Also gave them a swinging tinkly-bell filled with shredded...
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    Differences of feeds for my layers

    I know that meat-builders' feed has a higher protein % than layers' feed. I'm always hearing that I shouldn't give my layers too many treats (such as chicken scratch) because the protein content is too low. So, would it work out OK if I give them the meat-builders' feed with scratch, or is there...
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    Fasting before the slaughter...?

    Today was the day. After 5 days in solitary confinement, Red was still a vicious bully when we let her out yesterday, so she immediately went back to the confinement pen, now up-graded to death row. I didn't have the heart to starve her for her last day, so she still got scratch and mealworms as...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    I know, astounding, isn't it?
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    Right. I'll drink a lot of beer while I'm doing it. (I just need to remember my knife-resistant gloves so I don't cut off my hand.)
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    Fasting before the slaughter...?

    This hen is only 1-1/2 years old, but I have to cull her because she's viciously bullying the newer chickens. Right now I'm giving her a last chance: She's in an isolated pen all this week. On Saturday, we'll let her out to see if she behaves herself. If not...she's a goner on Sunday morning.
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

    I had a conversation with a guy at work this morning that's impossible to duplicate, but his logic is that he is morally pure by eating chicken that comes from the store because it's already in a package that doesn't look like an animal, which means he doesn't have to think about where it came...
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    Fasting before the slaughter...?

    Thanks. Yeah, none of my birds are too happy about being grabbed. I usually only do it for stuff they don't like, such as wing-clipping or washing poop-encrusted butts! I'm doing the method where I swaddle her in a big towel head-downward in my lap with the head sticking out, and cut the throat...
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    Fasting before the slaughter...?

    Resurrecting this old thread because I'll be doing it for the first time at home this weekend. (Have killed before at other people's homes, but they did the preparation.) Strange: I'm not bothered by the killing, but it does bother me to starve her ahead of time! Related question: Does it matter...
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    Does anyone buy from Modesto Milling Organic Feed?

    This is the first brand of organic I've seen in my area, so I jumped at it. I even considered making my own combo of stuff from scratch, but that's more effort than I put into feeding my husband at dinner!
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    Does anyone buy from Modesto Milling Organic Feed?

    I just got my first bag of the Modesto Mills organic, soy-free, corn-free feed. Almost changed my mind at the last minute because the store only had it in pellets and not crumble, and I had heard that once chickens got used to crumble they wouldn't switch to pellets. I need not have worried...
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    my chickens keep eating their eggs

    Success! For five days in a row, one of my three chickens was pecking open an egg and eating about half of it. I took the last pecked-out egg and filled it with a mixture of mustard and hot chili powder, then paper mache'd it closed at the end and put it back in the box. A mere five minutes...
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