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Thanks for the reply. Puts my mind at ease.

Our broilers are going to slaughter in 3 days . We have been raising them on organic feed with soy in hit. We tried the non-soy and it seemed to make them surly. Anyway, I can't get the organic feed with soy but I can get either organic layer mash with soy or organic starter with soy. Would it...

Thank you for the input. We are beginning to suspect we just received a bad batch of birds. Just hoping the slowly moving what-ever-it-is doesn't hang around and kill the next flock.

Dear Forum, Seventeen days ago we received 31 Cornish Roaster chicks from Murray McMurray. Nine are dead and two are in a separate brooder expected to die. Symptoms are very subtle and seem to simply be inactivity. Initially, chicks were not pooping much and McMurray suggested vegetable oil in...

We are totally new to chickens and hope to have 25 meat birds in about 4 weeks. We are having them killed, etc. by a local person. I was thinking it would be best to buy a vacuum food processor of some kind since we want to freeze them just for our own use. I have read some bad reviews of...

We have a bird that has very similar symptoms. We have isolated it and it is eating and drinking, but not moving. Does not seem to be suffering at all. Since this is a meat bird and will be ready for heaven in 4-5 weeks time my question is: Is it safe to consume a bird that has had this...

If we want to "free range" about 25 (meat)chickens in a fenced in area, how much space would we need ? I have been reading all kinds of books and articles, but can't get a handle on our space needs. Also, we were thinking of keeping about 6 layers and having them sepated from the meat birds ...