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    Needing help with butchering in Menifee

    Thanks Elke Beck! I really appreciate it, although that seems like quite a drive. I will keep up the search for someone more local to me, but if I can't find any help your assistance would be very welcome. Just hate for you to have to come all this way with the cost of gas these days. I will be...
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    Needing help with butchering in Menifee

    Thanks guys! I have been thinking about it for a while now and I think my problem is that I tried to cut too far down the neck and got too many feathers in the way to get a good cut... or in this case, any cut at all! I will try again, I just hope I can find someone with experience to make sure...
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    Needing help with butchering in Menifee

    Hi all! As the title says I live in Menifee CA and I am in need of a mentor to show me first hand how to process my 7 chickens. I have watched videos, read forums and tried to educate myself as best I can - but when I went to actually do the deed today it did not go according to plan. DON'T...
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    My pic of eggs & mini rant...

    Not a lot of people know or pay attention to this, but if you look at the date on the side of a carton of eggs there is a number next to it between 1-365. This number corresponds to the day the eggs were packaged. So if the number is 274, that means the eggs were packaged on the 274th day of the...
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    Looking to add some chicks, in Banning, CA

    There is a woman in Yucaipa, just down the 10 from Banning, where I got my chicks, she has a pretty good selection available! PM me if you want her number - she sold me chicks for $2 each, but she had some older birds as well. Very nice lady and she has some nice birds. All of mine are growing...
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    California-Southern

    Hi all! I'm in Menifee! It's a small area sandwiched between Murrieta and Perris, for those who don't know where it is. Glad to see how many other locals are here!
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    We got our first egg this morning!!!

    Congrats! The first egg is always so exciting! Teach is right, we need a pic!
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    Long time lurker :)

    Quote: Hi there! Seems to be a few locals here
  9. Jake the Farmer

    So proud of my girls!

    Lol did you hear them arguing? "Move over!" "No I was here first." "Was not! I was!" "Nuh uh!" "Uh huh!"
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    So proud of my girls!

    I just came back in from checking on my ladies for the night. The sun has been down for about 20 minutes now. I went outside and all my girls were inside their coop and on the roost together! This is a first for them, usually they are in a pile on the floor! I am so proud of them! Only 4 weeks...
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    Hello from sunny California!!

    Hello from Menifee, CA!
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    Going to bed.....chickens are not the brightest bulbs....

    My girls are almost 5 weeks old. I went out and got a cheap plastic baby plate for like $.50 at Target. I read that chickens are attracted to the color red, so thats what color I got. Since they were 3 weeks old I have been giving them Mealworms as a treat on this plate. They go NUTS for them...
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    DE is AWFUL!!!

    I also use sand inside my coop and have to agree it is sooooo nice and easy to clean. I used the construction All Purpose sand they sell at Lowes. It was about $2.40 for a 50lb. bag. I used 3 in my coop and its about 2 1/2 inches deep. So thats, what... $7.20? Good stuff
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    Bananas for treats?

    I tried to give my chicks some bananas a few times and they wanted nothing to do with it. They just looked at me like "What is this?! Where are our worms?? " Lol I will try to offer it to them again sometime in the future. I hope yours take to it better than mine did.
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    Need a little help

    Quote: Yay! This makes me feel much better! As far as I can tell all of my BSL have the same size feathers. Nobody has any noticeable difference as of yet, of course they are only going to be 5 weeks this Thursday. This particular bird is the smallest of the 3. I always thought roos would be a...
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