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    Looking for a better place to buy feed in the lexington, KY area

    I'm in Western Kentucky, Owensboro area and I get 40 # bags of layer crumbles from Rural King for $7.99 a bag. We have a few feed mills in the general area, but I would have to drive much further to get their feed at a comparable price, so I've been using the Rural King brand with good results...
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    How long until they lay after roos begin practicing the deed?

    dh's favorite pie happens to be a home made butterscotch custard pie that uses LOTS of eggs! Guess he'll have to wait for his reward too, we're close enough now I won't be buying anymore eggs if I can help it!
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    How long until they lay after roos begin practicing the deed?

    Thanks for your reply damselfish! The good news is, dh built some very nice nesting boxes this weekend, and it appears the girls are enjoying the practicing you mentioned...we put some golf balls i there and they definitely seem to be laying in a nest now instead of just on a pile of straw...
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    How long until they lay after roos begin practicing the deed?

    I have 37 mixed breed chickens. 14 of them are 14 weeks old, the rest are 12 or 13 weeks old. I have been witnessing the alpha roo (and a couple of other brave roos when alpha isn't around) practicing their mating skills. They are still obviously clumsy but they're figuring it out. Alpha is...
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    how do you entertain your chickens?

    Quote: chicken tether ball? too funny!
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    When?

    I have about 10 roosters, none older than 13 weeks. I intend to cull them when it seems time to do so, but right now they get along pretty well. My polish crested rooster named Puff Boy was the first to crow, about 3 or 4 weeks ago, although he is the smallest. I wasn't even sure whether he...
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    When can I expect our first eggs from these breeds...

    Just today one of our girls laid her first egg (woohoo!! ). I just counted and the oldest they can possibly be is 13 weeks and 2 days. I assume it is one of our golden comets. OH GEEZ! I bought a bunch of chickens at Rural King this spring. I also ordered 25 from Ideal. So now we have a...
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    butchered our first chickens on Saturday

    Just wanted to add that we thawed, cooked and ate our first home-grown bird yesterday. MMMMMM! It was amazing. I've read all the "our birds taste better" stories, and I always thought "oh, its probably the same but you just know its your bird so you THINK it tastes better" but I take it...
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    butchered our first chickens on Saturday

    I have pictures at home, maybe I'll get some posted if my dang computer starts acting right! Anyway, dh and I butchered nine eight week old cornish X on Saturday. Thanks to all the great information here on BYC, it was very simple and easy to do. I had an old laundry detergent jug and I cut...
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    My chickens are going nuts

    I have four crested birds from the batch I ordered from Ideal this year. The polish are definitely more active. I have 9 meat birds and 32 standard size of different breeds. When they come out of the coop in the morning the meat birds waddle down the plank, the standards (mostly RIR and Black...
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    Make-shift tools to get the job done

    that's cool! where did you get the fingers? how effective is this?
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    Meat birds dieing -- Just have to rant...

    We got 10 Cornish X this year from Ideal Poultry because I didn't know any better than to just order 25 straight run chicks of whatever breed the hatchery decided to send me. (no, I won't be doing THAT again!) When they arrived, I had 10 Cornish X, 10 Black Australorps and 5 crested. I didn't...
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    Make-shift tools to get the job done

    http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/issues/3/3-3/affordable-homemade-poultry-plucker.html here's an article about the whizbang, but from what I understand you have to buy the plans and build it yourself. Sounds like a good alternative to the high $$ pluckers for sale out there, though.
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    hi from kentucky y'all

    just wanted to introduce myself...my name is dixie and i live in western ky. I have been planning for the last two years to get chickens, but I had to convince my husband and that took a year! So, this spring I ordered 25 straight run assorted chicks from Ideal Poultry, but soon discovered 10...
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