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    Rusty watering Can

    Hello All, Been a while since I was on the forum, but figured there was no better place to come back to with a question. I have a galvanized metal waterer for my chickens. For the past couple of years, I have switched back and forth between a plastic one for the summer and the metal one in the...
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    Making chicken stock or soup

    Thanks all that responded. Sounds like my broth is the way it should be when using an older fresh chicken. I did not skin the chickens. They were just plucked. But, that might be something I try the next time meaning taking some of the skin off before going in the pot. I had planned to make...
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    Making chicken stock or soup

    I recently posted a question regarding cooking my recently processed chickens. This is my first try at having chickens and after producing eggs for three years, I decided to process the ones I had and get a new flock for eggs. I am now trying to cook the chickens I have. After my first...
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    Looking for processors in northern virginia

    I had mine processed at a place in Taneytown MD which is not near you, but I paid $3 per bird and I had 4 birds.
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    1st Time processing chickens

    The chickens were processed on Saturday and I cooked one on Thursday. The one was in the fridge for 5 days. Is that long enough? If I put them right into the freezer, do they need to be thawed and sit for a couple days then refrozen or has the damage to the meat already done. They were a...
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    1st Time processing chickens

    I had my first set of chickens processed last week. I had 4 layers that were about three years old and their egg production was just about done. So, I thought I would go ahead a process them and get new layers. I separated one into pieces and tried to fry it. The meat was to tough to bite...
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    Please share your pallet creations

    Beekissed, that is great. I bet that is one happy little girl with her house. Great job!
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    My new coop

    I am in central MD. Usually warm and humid in the summer and usually we get a good cold snap in Jan and February with some snow. But, this winter it has been very mild and rainy. Rob
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    My new coop

    I finally moved our chickens into our new coop yesterday. It has been a long process and wanted to finally share some pictures of my coop. Our chickens had been in a temporary pen taking up about half of my feed room in my horse barn. It work out fine, but it was a pain to get the eggs and...
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    Greenish/grey hard boiled egg

    My water is not very high in iron. I cooked in a regular metal pot. And, there was only one egg out of the 6 that I hard boiled that looked like this.
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    Greenish/grey hard boiled egg

    The egg shell was intact and some of the others had burst and had some of the white come out, but the ones with the burst shell all were normal looking with no off color. Maybe just a bad egg. I just was curious what would happen to the egg if it was frozen when brought into the house and then...
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    Greenish/grey hard boiled egg

    I put a little bit of salt in the water. The tint was through out the egg white. The yoke was yellow but not solid in the center. It looked like it had broken apart a little bit and was scattered through the egg white. All of the rest of the eggs were good. None had any tint to them and the...
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    Greenish/grey hard boiled egg

    I am not sure if this is the right category, but I have a question about an egg I peeled this morning. I was making hard boiled eggs and one of them had a greenish maybe grey tint to it. One end looked like it had air bubbles in the white part which now had the off color to it. It didn't...
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    Cats in the hen house

    I think I am going to try putting the one cat in the room and see how everyone does. I usually feed the cat in another barn, but I can just move her feed into the new space temporarily to see if she can hunt down some of the mice. I was thinking about cutting a hole in the door so she could go...
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    Cats in the hen house

    I have the feed in a metal can, but the chickens have access to the feed in the coop. I made one of the 5 gallon bucket feeders that I read about here. It is in the coop 24/7. I figured with the cats, they would get the mice at some point because I thought the mice would venture out a little...
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