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    One of my girls ate a frog 😳

    Chickens eat about anything... Remember as kid on the family farm when it was time to cull chickens for the freezer it was family affair. Us kids had the choice of gutting or plucking... I finally got the less gruesome chore (as I thought) of gutting, I hated plucking.... Well anyway...
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    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    I got 4 leghorns in my flock of 40+ and they are approaching 5 yrs old, and still spitting me out an egg a day to every other day.
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    Culling a long time rooster. Is there a better time of day?

    1 dz eggs = 1 dz boneless and skinless chickens. Serve baked (spanish omelette style) scrambled, fried, broiled and or boiled.
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    What to do about the raccoons?

    Chicken Fried racoon is pretty damn good when ya add some spicy hot peppers to them...
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    What to do about the raccoons?

    only good racoon is one way in the wild, or dead! I keep a live trap by my coops and enclosed runs (got 3 of them). Also have a high powered .22 cal air rifle. Dispatches racoons very efficiently when in the trap or out of the trap out too 75 yds. Few yrs back had an elderly couple...
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    Culling a long time rooster. Is there a better time of day?

    If you got roosters with your hens all of the time, you can bet them eggs are fertilized. Besides you are sounding like you believe in abortion as well with that great explanation. Chickens to me "Livestock" and not pets....... (p.s. corrected your spelling in your quote)
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    Culling a long time rooster. Is there a better time of day?

    That was being polite....... Live Stock are not pets. Dogs, cats are pets. Dogs are also a working animal like a Horse, Donkey... Now cats are either a problem or a pet....
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    Culling a long time rooster. Is there a better time of day?

    Purchased a straight run of 12 Silver Lace. Unfortunately 10 turned out to be Roosters, of which I already had two adult Americana Roosters. I have 3 separate runs and coops, and put the 10 Silver Lace in a run by themselves as they matured. After a few more months I had given away a few...
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    Culling a long time rooster. Is there a better time of day?

    WOW.... Chickens are livestock, hence food. If you can not handle the thought of culling a mean bird why are you then consuming the eggs? After all, you are still culling a bird eating an egg.
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    These two have turned up in an industrial estate by me, what are they??

    Noisy little buggers too, will attach just a like a goose. good watch fowl lol
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    Gauge and layering of wire for run in WNC?

    alot of ferral cats and dogs where i live as well as coons, skunks and possum. 1" Hex avain wire (or chicken wire/fencing) is the way to go but gets expensive. I fully enclose my runs top and sides. found the cheap way is to go with 2 hex, 6 foot high, and do in the top as well. Half...
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    The perch experiment

    I believe in K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) no harm ment here. But a bird will roost on any surface it can fit it's fat keester. I got old metal "L" shelf brackets up in one of my runs, they perch on them. Also got old branches tied together anchored in the the run corner, some branches...
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    Roost Poll Yes or No

    I rip old 2x4's into 2x2's break out the draw knife and round the edges. when possible I use natural branches 3" to 2" in diameter that will span the width of my various coop in the roost areas
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    Neutering Roosters

    wow, all the different comments here. To me chickens are not pets, they are food. Both Egg and meat! I want a couple of roosters for replenishing what I process and put in the freezer, buying chicks every yr gets a bit expensive, I have more than couple hundred bucks invested in chicks this...
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    Topic of the Week - Recycling (In) The Coop

    I use old cat litter buckets cut in half for nesting boxes and fill with hay for bedding.
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