Recent content by zorba1
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Local Butcher?
I am not there, but if you have a flock you should have thought of this before hand. We always butchered during a molt when the feathers were coming out on their own. But there is a very good way to do it anytime. When you cut a fowl's head off, the muscle's tighten up and the fowl be it...- zorba1
- Post #2
- Forum: Meat Birds ETC
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Why are many coops elevated off the ground
We did not have a coop, our chickens were on their own. We did have a very large barn, machine shed, a four bin grainery, two wood stave silo's, an ice house and smoke house and some small odd buildings where we used hand cranked tools to remove corn kernels and grind our own corn and wheat. The...- zorba1
- Post #31
- Forum: Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance
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Why are many coops elevated off the ground
Roosters really hate rats, we let our flock roam fifty years ago, they pecked through the horse and cattle dung happily. We let them in to our grain bins hallways and they roamed in the barns, the roosters were kept busy tearing any rats to pieces. We had very few rats and mice. We had about...- zorba1
- Post #20
- Forum: Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance