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    Wintering chickens over garden

    I was thinking of wintering my chickens over my garden space. The garden will be tilled and a compost layer added in the spring. Will the manure be too hot for my garden in the spring. Also, I have an asparagus patch in my garden . Can chickens be run over that area in the winter?
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    Culling - Break Neck Method - BEWARE - NOT A PC JOKE - NOT KIDDING

    I have often thought that butchering chickens has " changed" me, so I can understand the PTSD thing. You need a very sharp filet knife when you cut off the head so there is no sawing. Drop the head immediately in a bucket and don't look at it. I can get through regular chickens necks with a...
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    turkey butchering questions

    My husband shot this one with a .22. Then we hoisted him in a tree and bled him. His neck was so thick tha I didn't want to risk an axe blow. He dressed out at 42 lbs. Scaulding was done in a big Rubbermaid tub.
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    Cornish X with crooked neck and droopy eye?

    Sounds like a neurological injury and shouldn't affect the meat. I butchered a Cornish X that had a large red swelling at his rear end. I found that he had suffered a severe injury at some point and his entire abdominal wall had herniated. The red swelling was his intestines! His gizzard was...
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    Turkey eggs!

    I spared my 7 month old bronze turkey hen the axe a couple weekends ago when I butchered our last tom. A few days ago she started laying eggs. The variety is beautiful! Are turkey eggs good to eat? How long and how often can I expect her to lay?
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    When to butcher?

    My method is to place in a cone and use a very sharp filet knife to quickly cut off the head. It is easier than looking around for the area to cut an artery. I can literally have the head off in 1 second...instant death. You do have to settle your nerves, pull down slightly on the neck and make...
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    Can anyone advise me in raising turkey for meat

    I just butchered my BBW Tom Sunday. He dressed out at 42 lbs! My oven isn't big enough for this boy.
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    Cackle hatchery's Hatchery Surprise- Anybody got this before?

    Just butchered my BBW tom that I received in my surprise in early March. Dressed out he weighed 42 POUNDS! He will have to be parted out as I don't think my oven would be big enough for this big boy.
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    Weird find after slaughter

    I butchered 14 Cornish X chickens last weekend. We had noticed weeks ago that one cockerel had a large pinkish swelling at his rear end. Not knowing what this was, I butchered him last, which happens to have been in the dark with a porch light.....yeah, I was desperate to finish these birds up...
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    Murray Mcmurray!

    I had to cull the spraddle -legged chick because it couldn't stand. The injured chick died yesterday.
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    Murray Mcmurray!

    I just received my order from MM this morning. 7 Turkens, 8 EE and a mystery chick. One of the chicks, I am assuming it is an EE, arrived completely spradle-legged. Another chick is either deformed or for some reason has an open wound on the side of its head. I can't see the eye on that side and...
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    Cackle hatchery's Hatchery Surprise- Anybody got this before?

    When I got my surprise in March, I got a date and nothing else. The post office called at 530 am 2 days later.
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    Cackle hatchery's Hatchery Surprise- Anybody got this before?

    I got my surprise in March. I was fascinated by this video. . So I bought an ancient construction trailer and I am transforming it into the coupe de trailer, lol. There are 2 rooms in it. A feed room and living area. I have put in extra windows and a solar automatic coop door opener. The next...
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    Hatchery surprise chick

    I hadn't considered they would be fayoumi chickens, but I think you are right! Thanks!
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    Hatchery surprise chick

    I looked up silver quill and he didn't look like the baby chicks shown. He is one of 4 males that are alike.
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