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  1. NatJ

    What about butchering extra roosters for others?

    You might want to check the laws of your state. There are usually a whole bunch of laws about butchering and processing any kind of meat, and required inspections, and various other details. There are sometimes exceptions of one kind or another (just for your own use, for a customer who is not...
  2. NatJ

    Cost Estimate

    I searched for the image online, and found a site with the plans for sale: https://easycoops.com/5x6-walk-in-chicken-coop-plans/ The description says there are eight nestboxes, which is even more ridiculous for a coop of that size.
  3. NatJ

    What breed?

    The title asks "what breed" but the post says they are all backyard mixes. So I'm not really sure what you are asking. I see that several people have already offered opinions on what sexes they are.
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    Things you wish you could say

    That's good news! Of course it'll be better news to hear that they did come and did do the work properly... but we'll have to wait a few hours to have any chance of that being true.
  5. NatJ

    Things you wish you could say

    You list one of the bids at $1300 Is that a typo, and it's supposed to start with a 2 as well?
  6. NatJ

    Culling Towards the Best Flock

    That makes sense. It's always easy to suggest "you could do this," but then the actual details can get complicated. In that situation I would probably eat the hens myself, too!
  7. NatJ

    Culling Towards the Best Flock

    Have you considered selling or giving away any of the hens? For ones like this, that you say are healthy and productive but not right for your flock, that might be an option.
  8. NatJ

    Maybe I'm mistaken.

    I think the same thing you do about the chick in that picture. It looks like barring across the black feathers, which would mean the chick is male.
  9. NatJ

    New Chicks Have Arrived!! Yellow is the extra?

    No way that is a Black Star or a Brown Leghorn. But Ideal does not list any particular color for their Easter Eggers and does show a photo with several colors. The Olive Egger page says they are produced from crossing an Easter Egger with Barnevelder or Welsummer. If you can use any color...
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    Things you wish you could say

    I wish that was true of me, too! (Of course the truth is that I sometimes make mistakes and I sometimes know what I am talking about.)
  11. NatJ

    My duck is sitting on chicken eggs

    Thank you for updating. It's good to hear from someone actually experiencing this!
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  12. NatJ

    Bantam Maturity Question

    Make friends with a snake-keeper? Talk to a zoo or someone who does wildlife rehab? Use them for pet food? (Yes, all of those are based on the idea of humanely dispatching the fluffy little male chicks, then using the bodies instead of wasting them: similar to the idea of raising the males to...
  13. NatJ

    Is this Silkie partridge coloured?

    I don't know if "gray partridge" exists or not, and I'm no good at Silkie colors. So I don't actually have an opinion on the color of that bird. I just hadn't seen the red in it, so I thought you were mixing up which bird was being discussed. (I know the partridge pattern can exist with the...
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    Bantam Maturity Question

    Crele Old English Game Bantams should be pretty much autosexing. Barred or Cuckoo of any breed would be about as sexable as Barred Rocks or Dominiques (mostly sexable by color). You definitely can do sexlinks with bantams. Gold/silver or barred/not-barred would work the same as they do in...
  15. NatJ

    Is this Silkie partridge coloured?

    Your bird does have red. The bird posted by someone else, just a few post ago, looks gray. Looking at what was being quoted, I'm pretty sure that gray bird was the one being called "gray partridge." @WhoDatChick it usually works best if you start a different thread instead of adding to an...
  16. NatJ

    Communal Nest Boxes, Yay or Nay?

    With only 4, I would generally expect one nestbox to be enough for all of them, even if it's just a normal-sized nestbox. The exception would be if one or more go broody, because then they stay in the nest rather than laying their egg and leaving. For larger groups of hens, it is common to have...
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    Communal Nest Boxes, Yay or Nay?

    How many chickens do you have? I would probably leave it alone for now. If it seems to be an issue later, maybe put a cardboard box in half of it (to make it be two nests) and watch what happens. If that makes things better, you can either leave it or do a more permanent division. If it makes...
  18. NatJ

    Soy Feed chick starter

    The extra protein will not hurt laying hens. Some people feel that the higher protein is actually better for them. If you provide a separate dish of oyster shell, pullets and hens will usually eat the right amount to take care of their own calcium needs (they need different amounts depending on...
  19. NatJ

    I have strong feelings about "mink farm(er)s"

    Setting it free right there, on your own property, is an option if it is an animal you were not trying to remove. But if the same animal becomes a problem later, and has now learned to avoid traps, it is a bigger problem than if you never trapped it in the first place.
  20. NatJ

    4 week old RIRxOlive Egger Cross

    ...a W to her daughters. When a hen is silver, she gives that Z chromosome to her sons. Because silver is dominant over gold, the sons show silver,* even if they inherited gold from their father. The daughters inherit W from their mother to make them female, and a Z chromosome from their...
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