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    3 BEAUTIFUL BLK AUSTRALOrP LAYING HENS- EUREKA, CA

    Hello Humboldt County- I have three friendly, very young blk Australorp hens for sale. They have just started laying and their eggs are ENORMOUS! I would like to keep all three together, if possible. $10 each or $25 all together. They are big and beautiful.
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    Rigor Mortis?

    Thanks for the help, everybody. We are gonna try to cook him tonight. His legs are still stuck out in that unnerving position, but the meat does seem to be more relaxed after aging so long. I wonder why they are sticking out like that? I read something about a "cadaveric spasm" (sp?) like...
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    Rigor Mortis?

    We butchered our first chicken on Thursday. I was pretty slow with plucking and eviseration and sometime during a rinse, I was holding the bird upside down by his legs and he stiffened up that way. I read somewhere that rigor mortis goes away in about 48 hours, but I just checked the carcass...
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    Curtains for Stumpy?

    Hey everyone, I've decided it may be time to butcher our Golden Laced Wyandotte rooster Stumpy. He was a free chick from McMurray's Hatchery who is now 4 mos old and just starting to crow. I've never done this before, so I have been researching it like crazy to make sure it is done as...
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    Chickens don't use the roost bar

    I came here with a similar question. This is my chickens first night in their new coop. I decided to use 2x4's because I heard they like those. I turned them skinny side up, because I thought they might be able to grip better, but they seem really freaked out by them, like they can't get a...
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    Droppings in the waterer.....!

    Hi. I am attempting my first chick raising and am having a problem with their droppings ending up in their waterer. I have been cleaning it out 2x (sometimes 3x) a day and it never fails...within minutes of putting it in their brooder, one of them promptly takes a dump in it! By the second...
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