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    Broad breasted turkey yield percentage

    Does anyone know what the yield percentage is for a broad breasted turkey is? I am trying to determine when to process my birds based on weight.
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    Chicken Feather Plucker Machines

    The small feather units are for quail and the like. For Cornish x you will need to step up to a bigger unit. Cconly has some for under $500 but you will have to pay shipping. Tsc has a unit online only that is $399.
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    hello from central Florida

    I will take a picture of my set up tomorrow it is a very basic setup and I have not had any problem with the weather with it.
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    hello from central Florida

    You could put sand on the grass but it is not needed.
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    hello from central Florida

    You can most definitely just put them on grass. They will eat the grass and if you don't move it around it will be a bare patch of ground in a matter of a week or so. Search for chicken tractor.
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    hello from central Florida

    One of the things with chicken poop is you want it to dry out. Keeping it moist or wet by washing it out will cause odor issues. What I have been doing is either putting wood shaving in the coop and adding to it or just leave a bare plywood floor. Then every now and then going and rake it out...
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    hello from central Florida

    If you did I would put some wood shavings down for cushion and to help dry the poop out. That will help with any odor.
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    hello from central Florida

    You could use vinyl kitchen flooring.
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    Mudd's hens

    Decided to let my chickens out for a little supervised yard play. I think they enjoyed it. I decided to leave them out on the ground but covered up with another cage I have laying around while doing a grocery run. When I tried to put them back in their main coup, the first two decided to jump...
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    hello from central Florida

    So far no coon problems I know they are around by the prints in my pasture. I built my coop with them in mind. I still have to put the fence up around it. Using a dog kennel I found on my property. It just needs a little repair.
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    Sudden death

    I would personally not eat any animal that was not dispatched on purpose and not of naturally.
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    hello from central Florida

    New member started with raising some some egg layers about a month and a half ago. Have two crested polish, two isa brown, and two ameraucana. I started this after moving out of the city and into the sticks. My plan is to start doing meat birds ( chickens and turkeys ) and rabbits.
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    Culling and prepairing

    The way I do it is to use a small rope to hand them upside down and hold the head while slitting the throat missing the spine and keep holding the head until movement has stop.
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    skinny Cornish cross

    I was helping a friend process a few birds today. Out of five birds two were skinny, no meat in the chest or legs. I was wondering if someone could help me figure out why. He was free feeding his birds and had automatic water buckets. The birds were roughly 10-12 weeks old.
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