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    What age is a good age for processing excess heritage cockerels?

    i hatched out some of my own backyard eggs for fun and after brooder attrition (i delayed putting them outside due to fear of weather issues so they got crowded), ended up with 7 pullets and 5 cockerels. They hatched out 10/22. Since i cannot have roosters and if i were to break the rules i’d...
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    Posting for a friend and his chicken….

    Thanks! I figured so, but like to make sure since a lot is riding on this determination. He has been able to re-home the boy so he didn’t have to soup him.
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    Posting for a friend and his chicken….

    I though it was a boy when he sent me pics a month or so ago, but wanted to wait to make sure cause he either has to rehome him or soup him and that’s a heavy decision. Thank you for reassuring me that i am not telling him wrong stuff.
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    Posting for a friend and his chicken….

    got a question about this chicken. its either an olive egger or easter egger. I raised it in a brooder for a friend of mine since i already had babies in by brooder at the time and he had no idea how to brood chicks. It was purchased as a sexed female but a couple months ago he heard crowing and...
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    Electric fencing??

    Took these this morning, i hope they are helpful.
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    Electric fencing??

    we are going to be re-doing our coop in the spring and converting a shed to a double decker coop while keeping one of the current two smaller pre-fab coops because the girls seem to prefer laying in those nest boxes and its easy to confine them if we need to separate the some for one reason or...
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    Any Home Bakers Here?

    Looks like my little darling is coming back to life!! A little bread flour, a little water and a new warmer keeping her at 75 degrees Fahrenheit and she’s alive again. Not quite ready to bake but I’m happy she’s on the mend after 7 months in the fridge while the house was being repaired and...
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    I think these look like CCL pullets, please tell me I’m right

    YAY!! thats what i was hoping for, especially since my (very good) roo passed away unexpectedly. And i lost my other blue egg layer. Yep, prob poop. TBH i took them straight out of the tiny brooder and put them in a larger pen only stopping to take pics. Because of our cold weather here we had...
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    I think these look like CCL pullets, please tell me I’m right

    No, i put red bands on them so i could track them as they grew. There are two that looked exactly alike at hatch and had what i think was classic CCL hatchling coloring for female. Just want to track them as i think its easier for me to tell once they are a little bigger. I may have slipped the...
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    I think these look like CCL pullets, please tell me I’m right

    i waited a little longer to post because i wanted them a little more mature and a little more adult feathered. These two (hopefully) ladies hatched out of blue eggs that i produced myself. Father was pure bred CCL and i’m thinking mother(s) are pure CCL because as far as i know, I had 2 pure...
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    “What the eff is this white stuff on the ground and what are you going to do about it?” Said my hens

    Thank you all for your input. I will continue to carry liquid water to the chicken yard and fill the bucket and cups until our heaters arrive. The heaters for water should arrive tomorrow. No idea why it took over 5 days from amazon prime but so be it. They have a shelter plus the 2 coops and...
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    Deworming small flocks for cecal worms

    Fenbendazole (Panacur) comes as granules that can be added to food. You could make a mush for the whole flock or as individual offerings. I’d imagine they would eat that up at once. Otherwise, you could sprinkle the total amount on their daily feed (or mix it in with a feeder) and hope that they...
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    Those damn trash pandas

    Good point, as a veterinarian i am vaccinated for rabies but its always prudent to be cautious. Where do you live? It never occurred to me that relocation on this plain would not be an option. Guess i will be relocating them to the eternal plain instead.
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    Those damn trash pandas

    Fair point. I would really rather they just stay out of my yard but since i cannot negotiate with these masked terrorists, i have to explore other methods. I was thinking of taking them into the middle of the literal woods. I would never release them into a populated area.
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    “What the eff is this white stuff on the ground and what are you going to do about it?” Said my hens

    we got our first big snow of the year yesterday and of course, i was wholly unprepared because i’m not native to the great white north. where i grew up (so cal), we drove a couple hours to play in the snow, it did not come to us. Somehow, after 10 years of being here, i still get caught...
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