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    I accidentally poisoned my chickens...but they seem fine

    I was cleaning up my garden for the winter a few days ago and cut down/dug up the green pepper and eggplant plants(probably 4 very large eggplant and 3 pepper plants) and put them in a wheelbarrow. Then I put the swiss chard and old bean plants and old tomatoes and a couple overripe...
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    BR's or RIR's?

    Our BR hens are much larger than our RIR hens so I would think they would make a more appealing carcass. Ours are hatchery stock (I believe from Cackle)so may depend on where you get your birds.
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    I'm about to butcher ALOT of extra roos.... need some....

    We are hardly super experienced (only second butchering completed), but we did learn a lot since butchering 6 extra roos last fall to 38 meaties today. Killed in 2 batches near chicken shed then moved carcasses to big barn since pouring rain today, probably should have done in 3 batches...
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    Meatie Massacre

    We've got our chicks in our suburban garage until old enough to go out to my parent's farm. They were going to leave for the farm in the next few days and then disaster struck. My boys left our garage door open and a neighbor's dog(s) got in. Ten were dead in the pen, there are significant...
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    What age can you determine sex

    Thanks everybody. The little beasties are getting moved out to the coop at the end of this week since our weather has been consistantly warm and they are growing out of their brooder. I'm going to take individual pictures as we load them up and compare pictures side by side as opposed to...
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    What age can you determine sex

    I have ~50 chicks with an assortment of breeds. Most are supposed to be sexed pullets but 20 were straight run and there may be sexing errors with the others. The question I have is at what age (weeks/months) can you be pretty certain about the sex of chicks? The breeds we have are BR's...
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    Distinguishing Barred Rocks from Cuckoo Marans

    I ordered 5 BR pullets and 10 straight run cuckoo marans from feed store (think hatchery was Cackle)as well as some others. Ordered the marans because I liked the idea of the darker brown eggs but didn't realize that they were going to be the same color pattern as the BR's. Is the pattern...
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