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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    I tried dual purpose...1x Meh...it was all fat and skin and bone...no meat...like none. If you want meat, stick to meat birds. Do you raise goats? It's like the diff. between a dairy goat and a Boer. A meat goat will pull Thors chariot! 🤣 They're like small horses...and BUFF. If you want...
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    Best practices for ethical meat birds raising

    I raise my Cornish crosses like I do my egg layers. They have free range to go all over our property. I put them in a coop at night to keep them safe from predators. I have three left from last spring's batch, one rooster and two hens. I think of them as being meat on the hoof. They are hale and...
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    4H meat birds

    I just wanted to add...our judges were not people within the 4H program. That was done to keep them objective, I think, because people can get really weird about fair. The woman who was in charge of the chicken area tried to get my son disqualified after he won. Her son had also completed for...
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    4H meat birds

    My son used three Cornish cross broiler/roasters for a pen of three. He bought each chicken for sixty cents. We bought out all the chickens at the local feed store at once. The manager was sick of dealing with chickens. Right now you could buy each one for about $3 or so? My son sold his at...
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    Red mite infestation

    Have you seen the movie "A Good Year"? When we arrived at the VRBO, I thought they were just very bad housekeepers. There were little sachets, little cloth pouches strewn all over the floors. I spent a good half hour sweeping them all up and putting them in a bin. After seeing the little...
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    Red mite infestation

    Well you know what they say about assuming things.....
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    My chicken will not eat!

    Ah....she was sick first....and suffered paralysis. There are certain specific chicken diseases that have that as a symptom. I've never been able to bring them back once they suffer from paralysis. Sounds like she's a good nurse. Well done!
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    My chicken will not eat!

    I don't know.....chicken crumble smells an awful lot like Grape Nuts Cereal to me.....
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    My chicken will not eat!

    Sorry I just realized this was posted months ago. I just found the thread in my inbox. I'm sure it's resolved by now. I hope all turned out well for your chicken.
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    My chicken will not eat!

    We do the same. Crumble seems to work best for the little ones. We keep them on that and then transition them to our own chicken feed. We mix cracked corn, wheat, oats, black sunflower seeds and soy meal. Sometimes we mix in a little COB with molasses and in the summer we turn them lose to do...
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    My chicken will not eat!

    Buy more chickens. She sounds lonesome.
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    Red mite infestation

    Sounds good. I fill a 100 gallon water tank with a permethrin solution for chickens. Then I dip each chicken in it. I make it a bit stronger for my goats, sheep, etc, then for dogs. Cats cannot be dipped. And I don't dip my McNab. Then I take the rest and use it to spray the cleaned out...
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    Black Head

    I did not check the livers of the dead ones. They were dead before I was aware of the disease. So, yes, it's entirely possible that it was something else.
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    Black Head

    Anyone have experience with Black Head (Histomoniasis casued by the protozoa Histomonas meleagridis)? I put my 7 turkey chicks in with my 50 meat chicks and swiftly lost all but two turkey. A friend said, "It's black head. Cant keep young turkeys and chickens together. It wont affect the...
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    Dog attack has left my rooster with a bald back and no tail feathers.

    Hi! I'm late to reply, but in the event anyone else is on here looking for solutions...When we used to live in town, a few weeks or months after our then dog died, raccoons started plaguing our coop. Every night they came. It was like a horror show. My husband who had to leave for work at 4am...
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