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    Field gone wild?

    The Chickens should have it mowed down pretty quickly, but if you do mow, be sure you know where all your chickens are!
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    Incubation Need Help ASAP - Emergency!

    Alright, here's what happend. We got a new dog, who was acting weird around the chickens. While I was at work tonight, the dog jumped over the five foot fence, broke through the top net mesh material and proceeded to slaughter, every one of my hens. Both of my roosters survived, somehow...
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    packing peanuts

    Switch em over to Layer crumbles, its got a higher protien, they'll get fatter faster. I butchered several of my extra roosters at 15 weeks and they were to small, the only dressed out at about 2 pounds each. You wont get alot of meat off them, but with 13 of them, you could make a few good...
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    How long before freezing after slaughter

    Quote: what do you use for a brine? I use a mixture of salt and barbeque seasoning, so it gets into the meat from day one.
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    How long before freezing after slaughter

    My preferred method is to let sit for three days in brine, right after you process it. Then replace the brine with new brine and freeze. While it is defrosting, it will resoak in the brine again, the result is a very tender bird!
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    This is why I am not a cat person!!!

    I only had two impliments handy, one was my hat, which was thrown, and the other was my .45, and I wasnt about to use that. My dog, Aries, is a big dog, he can almost look me in the eye if he stands on his hind legs, and I'm 6'02", and hes not even a year old.
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    This is why I am not a cat person!!!

    Quote: Cat bites and scratches can get HORRIBLY infected out of nothing. I recommend getting antibiotics from a doctor of you got puncture wounds from one. My wife is a nurse, when I got inside she put all this stuff on it, not sure what it was, but one of them burned and turned the wound pink.
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    This is why I am not a cat person!!!

    So my new Dog Aries, a 100 lb Husky Mix, ran past me today and got into my backyard, where my cat is. They started fighting, and I ran over and grabbed up the cat, so they would stop. That was probably my first mistake, next time i'll go for the dog. Anyway, the dog started circling me and...
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    Anyone Ordered from Mt. Healthy?

    Glad to hear all the positive responses with them. Im making a large order, probably 25 RIR chicks and 50 BBW Turkey's, and for me thats alot of money, so I'm hoping that everything works out okay.
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    Anyone Ordered from Mt. Healthy?

    Anyone here ordered from Mt. Heathly Hatcheries? Im thinking of going through them for my next batch of Chickens and this years turkey order. If anyone has gone through them before, please give me some input, good, bad, ugly, whatever. Thanks.
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    Okay, quit hiding, any internet daters out there?

    I met my wife of nearly two years on MyCountryMatch.com
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    correctional center employees .................a shout out to ........

    You have to have a special mentality to work in corrections, detention. I've been a Detention Officer for about 14 months, and its a different ball game from corrections, but you do have to change your whole way of thinking. Just make sure that you are consistent, follow the SOP to the letter...
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    Processing ducks vs chickens

    If you want to do it yourself add soap to the scalding water, a little drop of dawn will do. Ducks have oil in the feathers so that they can sit on top of the lake, or do whatever, so the regular scalding process wont loosen the feathers, get the soap in the scalding water, douse your duck and...
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    COWS!

    Quote: Is your source from New Mexico? Meat from dairy calves and meat calves, is the same, except on meat calves there's more on the meat calf, the taste depends on how it is prepared, the skill of your butcher, how long and well its aged. I'm getting two by the end of January, and I'm...
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    Trying to find the Executioner

    My advice... stop calling it an executioner. Look around your yellow pages for butcher shops, or processing shops. Check out your local craigslist, or see if your local feed store knows of anyone.
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