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    To skin or pluck a goose???

    Thanks, maybe in November when we butcher our goslings then geese we'll try plucking.
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    To skin or pluck a goose???

    Getting time to harvest some of our geese. Do most people pluck? We prefer to skin since we debone anyway. Our geese are Chinese Brown. Couple days ago butchered four of our nineteen. The breast meat was sooo could fixed like a rare steak. Tender my wife used a soy sauce and garlic marinade she...
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    New Hampshire chicks. Meat not tender

    Well, butchered 8 six and a half week olds. Gizzard nearly doubled in size, no problem with crop anymore. Birds averaged around 3 1\4 lbs, alot more fat. So feeding program is working. Birds act alot like cornish cross with the way they lay around.
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    New Hampshire chicks. Meat not tender

    Actually not the wild bird seed has cracked corn, sorgum, millet, sunflower seed and a few others. We also put dirt box in with them as well.
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    New Hampshire chicks. Meat not tender

    Chicks where five weeks old, butchered weight 2 1\4 lb average weight of three birds. We butchered some because we thoughts there was a problem with the crop being too full. Turns out gizzard too small and not able to process feed fast enough. Started chicks on half 30% high protein feed and 18%...
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    Gosling swimming lessons

    Two weeks old first field trip
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    Gosling swimming lessons

    Agreed, but my wife feels better.
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    Gosling swimming lessons

    Agreed, but my wife feels better.
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    Gosling swimming lessons

    In a couple days I'll take some pictures and video them playing in the water. And I'll take some pictures as soon as my wife makes their brooder look presentable.
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    Gosling swimming lessons

    We have 21 Chinese brown goslings. They are one week old. They have imprinted to my wife and a little to me. I've read that they are not supposed to start swimming till a couple weeks old. But. seriously, give them a really big tote with two inches of warm water they absolutely love it. We've...
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    Should poultry be raised in cities, county communities or near any of these?

    I now live west of Spokane Washington but I grew up on my parents farm in Ohio where they farmed over 200 acres raised over 100000 starter layer chickens and 240 sows and the finisher held over 1400 hogs. They had to soil test. My cousins had over 500 sow operation and finished the pigs and...
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    Should poultry be raised in cities, county communities or near any of these?

    I wish there was more soil testing done on nice green yards. Especially for nitrogen run off from over watering. Large farms get tested for run off every year. Can't say a backyard chicken farm ever gets tested for run off or soil erosion caused by chickens.
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    Should poultry be raised in cities, county communities or near any of these?

    Large farms 50 years ago used to be very polluting but now with the high cost of fertilizers and chemicals they aren't anymore. Farmers use very precise machines to apply these products. I am amazed when I see the equipment they use today on YouTube. Very high tech stuff. My Korean wife's mother...
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    City Issued a Citation and claims we aren’t allowed to have chickens due to neighbor’s complaint. What are my options?

    I hope many that have been following this thread learn from his ten year, costly mistake. Always check first before proceding and check every so often to make sure you are still allowed.
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    City Issued a Citation and claims we aren’t allowed to have chickens due to neighbor’s complaint. What are my options?

    Not really but it acts just like a law and can come with civil penilties provided you live within it jurisdiction. Just like HOAs their rules don't count either if you don't live there and sign the contract. That's called freedom.
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