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    Underground RR Quilt Block

    This is my favorite fabric combination that you've shown yet! Gorgeous
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    Underground RR Quilt Block

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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Sorry about your guy with the mud-crop. It's so hard to end them, and I don't know if I'll ever be comfortable with it. Glad you've got your brother to help you with the end task! I did the same thing with my chicks!! They would lay in the sun with their legs all spraddled out and zombified, and...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    That's an enormous chicken!!!
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Jessica--- good luck today!! Yes, I'm thinking that's it exactly. I work so bloody hard to keep people alive, that I have a hard time accepting death. It's something that I've grappled with for years, and hopefully eventually I'll come to terms with it. I still cry every time I shoot a deer. I...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Ralphie---Great idea! I think I may have to adopt it for next time. I used elbow grease and my 14 birds tired out my arms. If only I had Popeye and his forearms at my disposal . Linda--- I am sorry about your eggs! Hopefully they are just fashionably late? Jessica--- I was initially okay...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Thanks for the links! Any pipping yet?
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    We did wind up processing them, on Wednesday. They were just past 8 weeks old. They all dressed out between 5 and 5 1/2 lbs. I miss them... I miss my lawn popcorn running (waddling, really) to see me/get food. Out of my remaining flock, 4 of the 14 had fluid around the heart. The other 10 had...
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Maybe because these guys are just starting to get their surges of testosterone, a "time out" would work? Like separate them for a day or two and see if it makes a difference? If they still are fighting after that, I personally would process them. It'd be a lot of work for 3 lbs extra meat total...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    My mother in law was upset too! She thinks we're nuts. We got rid of our coffee machine too, and use a stainless steel percolator. Gotta have my java, and it smells amaaaaazing while its brewing on the stovetop. :)
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    We have been without a microwave for almost 6 months now. I dont miss it. Nothing beats stove-top popped popcorn! We just warm leftovers up on the stove, so honestly the microwave was convenient for hands-off tasks, but its just as easy on the stove (just not hands-off). I personally feel the...
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    Underground RR Quilt Block

    I haven't started yet, either! I will once the harvest slows down. Kassaundra---beautiful work!
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    Just curious who else is living super frugal

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    What do you grow to feed the chickens??

    My spinach is doing abysmal! I'm growing out my greens that I planted in end of July until the frost hits, and I'm going to shoot for some indoor starting this year. Yours looks great!
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    First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

    Lisa-- isn't it fun watching them as they grow/evolve? I think you're doing everything right :) I'm realizing as I go through this bird-raising part of my life, that worry is inevitable, but it gets better the more I experience each day :) Linda--Wow!! What a day is right! I've been talking to...
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