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    Summary - My first hatching experience

    well, I was right only one chick survived. Except now, the chick has some sort of prolapse in the rear. Dosent look like an a nal prolapse, its just a hard lump coming out the back, and she has a pasty butt. Im a farmer and I can tell when something is going to be fatal, my instinct is that...
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    My eggs were due to hatch on 7/22

    time to intervene
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    Summary - My first hatching experience

    its her first brood.
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    Summary - My first hatching experience

    21 days ago one of my harco black sex links went broody. I set up a place for her on her own and gave her 9 eggs to sit on. After about a week she had pushed three eggs out of the nest and ate them. So im down to 6 eggs. at 10 days I candle most of the eggs with a high power flash light and...
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    Cost of cornishX

    I charge 2.50 per lb.
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    How do you rate your processor?

    are you happy with the your chicken processor? are the rates good? is the job well done? I cant seem to find a processor that dosent rip the legs and wings off half of my birds. I just had a batch done by a different facility than I usually go to and they were even worse. Out of 32 birds, 13...
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    Feeding Cumbo X's

    cheaper meatbird grower/finisher feed.
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    I never knew raising meat chickens would be so stressful

    did you scald them first? I dry plucked a bird once, never again though.
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    I never knew raising meat chickens would be so stressful

    Hey Steve, sorry to hear about your bad luck. I pay to have mine processed, because plucking is such a tedious job.
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    Disposing of the innards

    animal protien does not compost well. bag 'em up, take them to the dump. I dump mine in my woodlot. the coons and coyotes have it gone overnight.
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    TSC said these are meat birds but

    they look like delawares to me, or columbian rock x red. The reason they are called sex links is because the size of the pin feathers on the wings identify sex. If the two rows are the same size, then it is a male. if one row of feathers is longer, its a female.
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    Am I doing something wrong here?

    what are the night time temperatures inside the tractor?
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    Flooring for Meaties in pen that can't be moved

    is this long pine needles from the scotch pine tree your talking about? ive never heard it refered to as pine straw before, or people using it for livestock bedding. Interesting.
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    Flooring for Meaties in pen that can't be moved

    my problem with wood pelets and shavings is price. I use it in my brooders and in my laying boxes, but for bedding for my layers and meaties i use straw. I have to add fresh bedding to the meatbird pen twice daily, but my laying birds only needed fresh straw a few times when they were penned...
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    Where am i ever going to put these meaties?

    ya our coyotes are more like dogs, sheepish and timid. See how you make out with your first batch of meaties. if you find that the air is getting stuffy inside the brooder around the 4 week mark, then you may need to build a hardware cloth or wire top for your brooder.
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