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    anyone familiar with country hatchery

    This is sort of late, but I have dealt with Country Hatchery in the past for chickens, and I have been very happy with them. I have never had chicks or eggs shipped because they are driving distance and sell through feed stores. I like their birds enough that I have driven to their location...
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    Advice Requested On Gathering Eggs For School Hatching Project

    I've got a flock of 5 hens and a rooster. My boys' elementary school wants some eggs for a hatching project. I've always bought day old chicks. The school has an incubator, and they'll do the hatching. I would like some tips for how I should care for the eggs and how long I can keep eggs...
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    Faverolles Thread

    I'd just want to throw in my 2 cents on the last post. I am a backyard chicken keeper. I have always wanted to have a breeding flock of chickens. I live in town, and I was worried a rooster would be a problem. Until recently, I just had hens and no breeding involved at all. Never had a...
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    How Tough?/Cooking Methods for 4-5 month old mixed breed roosters?

    I keep a flock of laying chickens. My wife brought home 5 chicks last May that were hatched out at my kids' school as a class project. They were probably hatched in early May. They were a mixed breed barnyard chicken -- red with black tails. Have no idea the breeds. Lucky us, 4 out of 5...
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    ***OKIES in the BYC III ***

    I'm the guy with the fox (or something else just as bad) in his henhouse from Tulsa. We managed to find two people selling 3-4 month old pullets. They won't lay for a couple more months, but at least I know they are young, and I won't have to wait too long for eggs. I bought 3 RIR and 3...
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    ***OKIES in the BYC III ***

    Is the show in Pryor tomorrow only for Bantams? I am looking for large, dual-purpose chickens.
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    ***OKIES in the BYC III ***

    She's in shock. Not sure if its more from fright or the injury. There are always birds on Craigslist. However, I'm a little nervous about buying from a CL poster without having somebody who knows the seller vouching for the seller.
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    ***OKIES in the BYC III ***

    Hey felow Okies. I'm a chicken owner in Tulsa but don't post on here much. I need some help. Last night was the great chicken disaster at our house. I told my wife I was going to go out to close the coop. She said she was going to go the store and she would do it. Then she went to the...
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    Definition of Dual Purpose Chickens

    My dual purpose chickens: (1) lay eggs and (2) feed coyotes and foxes.
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    Questions on Getting Started with Meat Birds

    Also, what is ACV?
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    Questions on Getting Started with Meat Birds

    Thanks for that feedback. I have another, specific question. There is a person selling two homemade brooders on craigslist where I live at a reasonable price. The total square footage (counting both) is just shy of 15 square feet. Would that be sufficient room to keep 25 Cornish-X chicks...
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    Questions on Getting Started with Meat Birds

    I live in a city, but I have about 3 acres to work with. We've been keeping chickens for eggs for three years now. We would like to begin raising meat birds too, using a pastured poultry/chicken tractor method. I think I would like to do batches of 25, one in spring, one in fall, for 50 each...
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    What breed(s) should we start out with?

    If you want to raise your own chickens without an incubator, have eggs and raise some for meat, Orpingtons could be a good choice. Friendly, pretty, decent egg production, will go broody and decent size if you want meat from a heritage breed. I have a friend who raises Orpingtons for eggs...
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    ***OKIES in the BYC III ***

    When/where is the poultry show in Pryor? Also, Maribeth, I'm looking forward to meeting you at the beekeeping meeting next weekend. Which reminds me, I need to get my powerpoint presentation done. Neil
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    ***OKIES in the BYC III ***

    I live in Tulsa, and I am looking for somebody local that could provide about 6 sexed, day-old australorps chicks. If not Australorps, then a breed that bears confinement well (with some free range too), lays lots of eggs and is especially friendly. I've gotten excellent Australorps and Prod...
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    Chickens Fighting/Sick Chicken?

    My current flock is 1 Australorp and 4 Production Reds, all are nearly 1 year old. They have plenty of room, I think -- about 9 square feet each inside and about 24 square feet outside, and they get to free range some. They have always gotten along fine. Typically no fighting at all. They...
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    Tough skin on roasted heritage chicken

    Ahab, How long do you cook a 4 lb bird using the 500 degree/skillet method? What about seasonings? I'd like to give that a try and would like some details. Thanks, Neil
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    Australorps breed Thread

    I have had hatchery Australorps and like them a lot. I was thinking of trying out some breeder quality Australorps, but I don't know if there is anybody near NE Oklahoma who is an Australorp breeder. Anybody out there? Also, my hatchery Australorps are nice, pretty birds and great layers. Do...
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    *** OKIES in the BYC ***

    What/when/where is POOPS?
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    Pink Eyed Dilute

    Dang, I was hoping it was made up. Could I interest anybody in the last of the Ozark Mountain Squirrel Hounds? (Looks like a smallish Bernese Mountain Dog)
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