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    Arizona Chickens

    THE LAW SEZ YOU CAN KILL YOUR OWN STOCK IF HUMANE RULES ARE FOLLOWED. ....so, maybe it comes back to self-sufficiency, animal husbandry & personal responsibility? butchering regulations and heavy fines are not so much about whether to kill chickens as HOW humanely butchering is done and whether...
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    Arizona Chickens

    thought i would qualify my comment ... i raise my hens for eggs only.... and have been a spiritual vegetarian and organic farmwoman since 1970. I have, however, shot many rabid and wounded animals, large and small during the decades. Field-dressing deer, cleaning fish and plucking fowl were...
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    Arizona Chickens

    This is no joke. Mexicans are notoriously enthusiastic about slaughtering chickens, sheep, goats etc. Consider chatting with the owner of a local carneceria ( Mexican butcher shop) or local charros ( cowboys) about doing the deed..... however, if you are a happy meat-eater and want to eat your...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Ouch... I would have her on extremely clean straw bedding... no dirt. I would flush it with hydrogen peroxide... maybe do a suture or two... and pack it with honey. Yes... honey. It works wonders on the skin gashes of horses, humans and sheep I have mended. Flies do not go after it...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Hi Here in the Snowflake-Taylor area, some poultry folks told me they purchase ground corn from a local big dairy farm... using their own 55 gallon barrel. Find mills where grain and corn is processed.... not just retail feed stores. Or.. buy land with grass and a water source, improve it and...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Thanks, Bryan! I shall post them by next weekend... in the midst of second plantings all weekend thanks to the first monsoon rain last night. This morning, the hens are going mad with excitement and their outside soiled straw is soaked... ready for composting. Did you all get rain in Hereford? Amber
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    Arizona Chickens

    Hi AZ folks! Anyone in the White Mountains or Rim Country? Best wishes for monsoon rains and bountiful gardens ... our state needs it desperately. The past week has been busy building "Romany benders" for the hens..... 8' cattle panels bent to make a tunnel shelter, stabilized with one rebar on...
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