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    Rhode Island Red/New Hampshire Red flock

    I have a flock of 14 with breakdown as follows: 6 RIR pullets, 1 RIR rooster - born Feb. '09 (11 months) 4 NHR pullets, 1 NHR rooster - born Apr. '09 (9 months) 2 Cornish Rock pullets - born Apr. '09 (9 months) Everyone, including the two roosters, get along pretty well. The roosters aren't...
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    3 Cornish Rocks for "cheep"! - TX

    I had a mixed flock (broilers/layers) and have 3 lucky cornish x who never saw the chopping block. The freezer's full and I don't feel like butchering anymore anyways so if I could get $10 to (almost) pay for a bag a feed I would consider my time with them worth it. About the chickens: Cornish...
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    You know you are "Country" when...

    Quote: ...Or when you make a special trip outside b/c you have to pee
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    Texas - NHR pullets

    No problem! We'll finalize via email.
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    Texas - NHR pullets

    I'd like to downsize just a bit. Have three excess NHR pullets I'll part with for $8 each. 21 weeks old. I'm in the hill country.
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    Where's my stinkin' eggs???

    I like the mantra idea. I've actually been using both sweet and sour motivation for a while now: usually sweet in the morning and then sour in the evening when there's no eggs. They're locked in the coop for now and I've decided that's where they'll stay for at least a week.
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    Where's my stinkin' eggs???

    I have 6 RIR pullets who are 30 weeks old and 7 NHR pullets at 22 weeks. The RIR are beautiful with red, fully developed combs and wattles. A few of the NHR are, too. I got my first egg 6 weeks ago and have been getting one measly egg a day since. They free-range so I figured they found a spot...
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    Free Roaming Hens- egg collecting

    I must be in the same boat as Frida's mom. I have 6 RIR pullets born Valentine's day so they're about 6 1/2 months old. My other girls are still too young at about 4 months. Anyways two of my RIR were laying religiously every day in their nest boxes (where I had golf balls) in mid-afternoon and...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Today I cleaned the coop with a pullet fussing at me the whole time for tearing up her house. Well as soon as I finished she made a b-line to the laying boxes and after about 5 minutes gave me my first egg! Finally! She's 24 weeks and 3 days old today so I guess it's about on schedule but dang...
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    How to become self-sufficient (kinda) with chickens.

    That or the old fashioned way with a sickle
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    How to become self-sufficient (kinda) with chickens.

    Oh yeah, and like beefy said, milk is an excellent supplement to chickens. I also did like 1acrefarm suggested trapping a predator and they loved it. On one occasion I found a snake with a chick half down the hatch, shot the snake and they ate the whole thing. Later I trapped a raccoon who had...
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    How to become self-sufficient (kinda) with chickens.

    Back to one of the original questions about a simple recipe for homegrown food, I recently picked up a great book for chickens, self-sufficiency, etc. called The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. I would HIGHLY recommend it. It's about 900 pages of everything you need to know from a...
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    What the...?? Blackheads on skin after processing

    thanks ddawn. I tried and that does help.
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    Chicken "romance" question.....

    LOL! What a hilarious post. I agree you should definitely get some of that on tape. I have a 20 week RIR who's really coming into his roo-ness but he's not nearly that entertaining. Crows a couple times a day and for some reason likes to do his thing with the pullets at feeding time, then...
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    What the...?? Blackheads on skin after processing

    I've been processing a bird here and there for a couple months now - Cornish X and RIR roos. Something I've been noticing is almost every bird will have several big blackhead-things, especially on the thighs. They're not feather quills. It's kind of gross but if I squeeze them an almost clear...
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