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    Charles07s Chicken Coop

    The construction process: Borrowed tools - 1 drill, 1 circular saw, 1 wood/metal power saw ("sawzall"...thanks Makita for making a quality product), 1 metal shear (powered) Leftover/surplus materials - 2.5" screws (200?), 2X4s (20?), pole barn exterior metal scrap (96" long by whatever width...
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    Cold weather here what about the birds?

    The low here today was -16 when I left this morning and the high was -11 when I came home this afternoon. (Celsius) The birds were out and about scratching in the snow.
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    Our First Processing Experience! (Pics)

    Tell your husband great idea about the air compressor. I will try this sometime. Nice pictures!
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    My first homegrown chicken dinner

    Quote: Sounds like your mom cooks like I do. Nothing like a big cast iron skillet for frying chicken, and you can fry them soooo slow that way, even old roos make tender, juicy meat. Covering the skillet, and having the flame as low as you can get it are the important parts. It takes some...
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    Notherners, do you insulate your coops?

    Quote: ditto! I am curious as well.
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    another "Know It All" Bites Dust

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    ***Post your pics of chicken dinners, please***

    Chicken and rice soup, with cilantro (Made of "leftovers" from 2-14 week old mutt cockerels.)
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    Chefs talk to me..... fried chicken.

    The recipe sounds similar to mine. Oil temperature is important and as others pointed out, any excess water on the chicken is trapped between the skin and the batter and may "boil" the skin to a rubbery texture. I pat the chicken dry with paper towels, but am going to try air drying it the...
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    Chefs talk to me..... fried chicken.

    Quote: X2
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    ***Post your pics of chicken dinners, please***

    Quote: Sure! The key is to double, if not triple batter the chicken. That's what gives it the fluffiness of KFC. Crack eggs into dipping bowl, we use roughly a dozen for 2 chickens Mix flour and spices in secondary dipping bowl Dredge chicken pieces in egg, then flour mixture...rinse and...
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    Flock integration...Pecking order, relax people!

    So, My wife's uncle gave us 10 females, 7 young RSLs (16 weeks) and 3 Ameraucanas (24+ months). We popped them into an established flock of 12 RSLs, 1 BO, and 1 RSL Rooster...at dusk. The older Ameraucanas came out guns blazing! The Rooster ignored the young RSLs, broke up 1 Ameraucana...
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    ***Post your pics of chicken dinners, please***

    Our tenderest fried chicken yet! A pair of 15 week old cockerels (3rd generation RSLs) that I hatched with the incubator:
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    ***Post your pics of chicken dinners, please***

    More fried livers, gizzards and hearts. This was lunch yesterday. Yeah...I sneaked in a sautéed mushroom, green onion and swiss quiche from dinner tonight. Or what's left of it.
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    ***Post your pics of chicken dinners, please***

    Very nice, hunter and Jen!
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    How was it? It looks fantastic!
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    Dry Incubation Method = Some of Our Best Hatches

    We hatch between 65% and 75% consistently, using this method. Our lowest rate was exactly 50% and our highest was around 90%. The humidity in our garage may be the contributing factor. It maintains 35%-45%, year round. No water is added until lockdown, and then we keep it between 55% and...
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    ***Post your pics of chicken dinners, please***

    Looks great!
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    That...is a picture of perfection.
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    Thanks!
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    Quote: That was the garnish.
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