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    Barnevelder breeders

    Hi! Looking for Barnevelder breeders. I am willing to look at chicks or hatching eggs.
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    Are they hatchable if they pass the float test?

    We just found a pile of eggs that our Welsummer hid. I was going to put a batch of eggs into the incubator and would really love to include hers; however, I don't want to waste the space if they aren't going to be viable. I did the float test and only about half passed it. Of course, they were...
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    Who is the roo?

    I guess we will have to wait a bit longer but isn't it odd that it is so small, young and quiet but mounting my 3 yr old hens? After our roo left this spring, the RIR hen started mounting the hens after a couple months without him and she always was pretty dominant so I am also surprised that...
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    Who is the roo?

    All of them seem kind of small for their age. I could be off by 2 weeks but that's it. This is our first year raising the chicks mostly on pasture so I figured that's why the were growing slower. We have had roosters and incubated, etc in the past and we always looked for the bullseye on the...
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    Who is the roo?

    My four hens have been without a rooster since May. About 2 week ago, we found fertile eggs! We bought the following four all as pullets, but one of them has to be a roo. There is no crowing going on and I personally don't see one of them that sticks out to me as a rooster. None of them are...
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    Blue Laced Wynadotte

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    Speckled Sussex

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    Ameracauna

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    Turkin

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    Info for handling broody hen on nest

    I have a Khaki Campbell hen that was sitting on eggs. The other two hens I have kept adding to the nest so the pile was getting really high. I was advised that I should scoot her off the nest, candle them, mark the ones that I was going to leave in the nest and remove the newer eggs. So, I...
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    Letting freshly butchered meat "rest" before cooking?

    I have let mine sit that long before with no problem. You're good!
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    Moving a duck nest to safer quarters?

    We just purchased some Khaki Campbells who are very good brooders according to the previous owner. She said that she pulled one off of a nest the day before we picked them up. So they are in our backyard (1 drake, 2 hens, 1 youngster) and play in the pond, etc and at night we have them in a...
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    When and how to grind the meat for the freezer

    Thanks! I was wondering about the chicken stock and wondered why it always seemed so tasteless after I took the meat and bones out. I bet I didn't cook it down enough. I will definitely need to try that.
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    When and how to grind the meat for the freezer

    This is very helpful. Thanks for the info. We are going to work on it this weekend. The coop is TOO full of freeloaders... = )
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    When and how to grind the meat for the freezer

    We have some old hens we want to process and we have a meat grinder so we thought about trying it since the meat is usually more tough on them. After we butcher, do we cut the meat off the carcass right away and put it through the grinder? Do we put the carcass in the fridge and wait the 3...
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    My hen is going to be sadly disappointed on day 21...

    You are going to laugh...well, your husband is going to get a kick out of it if he is a typical male. :- ) Buttless... lol... She is a Black Copper Marans that we hatched out here, but somehow ended up with no tail. She has two feathers that stick straight down and since most BCM look...
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    My hen is going to be sadly disappointed on day 21...

    Here is what I found under my broody yesterday. We have oodles of lemon cucumbers left from the garden and I guess she decided that she wanted to attempt to hatch it! lol And she is determined! When we went to take the picture, she was hissing and growling at my husband like crazy...
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    How to identify chick breed mixes

    I know the 2nd is not a pure light sussex unless they can present as a baby with black spots on the head and down the middle of the back. I purchased a dozen LS chicks from a very reputable breeder and all of the chicks were completely white like the 4th one.
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    How to identify chick breed mixes

    We have a light sussex rooster in with the following hens: light sussex, buff orpington, rhode island red, turken, black copper marans, black sex link, and partridge rocks. We hatched some eggs in the incubator and some were very easy to identify as cross breeds and I know that light sussex...
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