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    Cornish Cross Help Please!

    We find them so much better. They're not pumped full of junk as well as water. In reality, they're the same birds as the ones in stores, just raised in very poor conditions.
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    Cornish Cross Help Please!

    If you feed high protein, then yes, they'll start having problems. We just did some that were 12-14 weeks old and they were running around their fenced area like nothing. We have ours in a tractor and then an electric poultry net around it to give them a big area to forage. Some of ours foraged...
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    Temporary housing for meat chickens

    We too use a hoop house tractor. Super simple and cheap. Look up Cog Hill Farm on youtube. He made a temporary house out of cattle panels and t-posts. He takes it down when he's done.
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    What happened to this guy?

    Lol, nope, it was def a chicken egg. Yes they are all the same age. They are currently 2 weeks old. I'm assuming it's a weird genetics thing.
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    What happened to this guy?

    Well that's not a day old, but a few days. I can't find my pic at a day.
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    What happened to this guy?

    I think both. He was naked a at birth, but I think they're picking some,of the stray feathers. Here he is at a day old.
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    What happened to this guy?

    Haha, it's a strange one. It hatched and a few hours later, I thought it was still wet under the mama. Then the next day it fluffed a little but was somewhat bald. I think it's possible the other chicks might have picked his random head feathers (no many of them) and made him look more bald lol...
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    What happened to this guy?

    My broody hatched 5 babies last week. All are normal fluffy chicks except this guy...what in the world?? It came from a medium brown egg... Roosters we owen(ed) that could have fathered it: Americauna Olive Egger (all black with grey neck) Blue splash red Wyandotte Hen breeds we own that lay...
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    Smell of Meat birds

    We have 6 kids, so we aim for 2 chickens per week. Last year was our first year and we ordered 25 just to get our feet wet. This year we got 80 and we're still processing in batches and lost some early on so we'll have a total of what we did later in a few weeks. Next year we are ordering 115...
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    Smell of Meat birds

    We raise CX and have tried Rangers as as well. We thought about heritage breeds but honestly they take a long time and more food. Therefore cost was more. We put our CX in a tractor surrounded by electric fence. These birds are all over the place getting bugs and scratching. they do lay around...
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    Texas

    :frow I'm close to both of you guys! Outside of Woodville on the Livingston side off 256. I pass Barnum all the time going to Lufkin! I have australorps and they handle the heat as well as my other birds. We also have orpingtons, wyandottes, welsummer, maran, faverolle, EE, red stars, brahma...
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    Broken turkey egg

    So my broody chicken hen was sitting on 6 turkey eggs due to hatch today. 2 days ago she broke one.,a huge chunk of shell off and even a bleeding spot, but membrane is still solid. A small hole where the bleeding was. I candled and it was still moving and appeared to be trying to internally pip...
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    Electric poultry fencing

    We use ours for meat chickens. Previously we used it for a temporary run for our layers. We love ours and it works great!
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    Whiting True Blue & Whiting True Green

    I had 4 WG I got from McMurray. They were supposed to be pullets and 2 were roosters. Those two are mixed with my Red Ranger meat birds now and I have no clue which ones they are anymore. My 2 pullets recently got eaten by my dog :hit:hit:hit But, they were reddish, all 4 and they had...
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    Whizbang Plucker help

    I think it's the motor stalling. The belt is still on. It runs fast and as soon as the bird hits the bottom plate, it just stops.
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    Whizbang Plucker help

    Thanks! We are about to fire it up next Sunday. So we'll try one extension cord (we bought good ones), I saw in the book the more you use the less the power is. We will also see about switching out the spring! If that doesn't work, we'll get a new motor.
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    Nurture Right 360 and humidity

    The little guy hatched out an hour ago! Unfortunately he's the only one that made it. But I have a broody hen on 7 turkey eggs due to hatch tomorrow. So when they hatch, I'll stick him under her. She's always let me give her additional chicks in the past with no problem. I don't think turkeys...
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    Broody noises without the behavior

    I had a few doing this for a week before they completely went brood. That and the fluffed up complaining too.
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    Nurture Right 360 and humidity

    No, so far it's been holding steady at 78%. I pulled back the heavy shelf liner and it made all the difference! Before I lockdown my next batch, I'll probably cut some wire or something to fit over it.
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    Nurture Right 360 and humidity

    Well, I have it up to 77% right now and I see a little more progress with this guy. I did have shelf liner on the bottom that is a heavy weave. Earlier I wondered if it was inhibiting humidity and pulled half of it back. Seems to be holding at 78/77 now. We live in SE Texas so we're usually...
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