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    Silkie Chicks High Mortality

    My hens are just over a year. My roosters are almost a year. The hens and roos are not related. The hens are good mamas. I feed them a 24% game bird crumble. They also get out most days for grass and bugs. The egg shells look totally normal. Hatching the eggs out hasn't been a problem. It's...
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    Silkie Chicks High Mortality

    Let me preface this by saying, I am an experienced chicken mama. I hatch several broods of BCM's a year and raise and butcher at least 100 Cornish X a year, but these silkie chicks are making me crazy! My young son wanted to keep silkies as a little side business. He has 3 hens and 2 roosters...
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    Silkie and Silver Laced Polish 24 hour Auction!!!!!!

    Sorry, sending PM. Ignore this. Thanks, Tiss
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    French Wheaten Maran... pullet or Roo?!?!

    Scroll down on this site and there are pics of the wings of a wheaten pullet vs roo. http://maransofamericaclub.com/wheatenmarans.php I thought maybe pullet from the first pic, but the darker feathering in the older pics has me leaning toward roo.
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    Silkie Chick Lethargic

    My 7 year old son saved his money and bought 3 silkies from a local breeder. One of the chicks died after 3 days and another is looking lethargic and not growing like the third. We have about 30 chickens and are not new to raising chicks. I've seen failure to thrive in a couple rare...
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    Mites- Sevin not working

    They are little bitty 8-legged things. Some are white and some a dark rusty brown. The mulch I removed from the run is alive with them. I just have sand on the ground in the run now, but if I move it aside, I see them crawling. It looks like there are fewer in the run now, but still more than...
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    Mites- Sevin not working

    No, they're not biting me. At first I thought maybe they weren't anything to worry about but then I noticed that some are whitish and some are reddish brown. I think I read somewhere that they change color after a blood meal. They are only in a run. I've even checked under the leaf litter in...
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    Mites- Sevin not working

    It's only been about 10 days since I've found them and have been out everyday with more Sevin. There are still mites everywhere. I had my son catch a few of the birds for me so I could check them again and they're all clean still. They seem to be mainly in the soil of the run now and of course...
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    Mites- Sevin not working

    I discovered just over a week ago that I have mites in my run (interestingly, I don't see any on the birds or in the coop itself). I have removed every bit of ground cover from the run and used an entire bottle of 5% Sevin dust and an entire bag of DE over the last week. I have also dusted every...
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    Semiboneless?

    I didn't really want to wrap with bacon. I want to taste the quail and bacon can be overpowering. I ended up scalding for several seconds in 150 degree water. Then dunked in ice water. I found that I had to rescald some of them after I got about half the feathers off. Hotter water seemed to work...
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    Semiboneless?

    That is EXACTLY what I'd been looking for! Thank you so much. I keep looking for info on scalding quail and I'm not finding much. I think I'll try 140-150F followed by a quick dip in ice water like I do the roosters. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm a little nervous that my scissors aren't...
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    Semiboneless?

    Can you provide a link? I only found the step-by-step pictures. I really wanted to pluck and then process whole (rather than breast and legs like some tutorials I've watched) so they stay nice and juicy on the Big Green Egg. The pictures I've seen of "semi-boneless" look like the backbone is...
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    Semiboneless?

    I'm about to butcher my cots. Any idea what bones these big companies take out to make semi-boneless? Does anyone have a tutorial? Thanks!
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    I'm new to the whole chicken thing this year although I've been dying to get birds for 3 or 4 years now. I wanted 3 or 4 hens so bought a little coop. Then I bought 6 pullets. Then 4 more chicks. Then 4 more. Then my husband (who, up to this point had been acting like he was humoring me) brought...
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    Killing, Plucking, Eviscerating, & Cutting Up Your Chicken - Graphic!

    I did in my first chicken yesterday. I could not have done it without your tutorial. Thank you so much!
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    French Black Cooper Marans Cockerels/Rooster

    I have 4 FBCM roos from my August hatch and I only need one. My hens and my neighbors need some rest! They are nice boys who have never shown any hostility. The eggs I hatched them from were purchased from redroofhens.com.It's hard to see in the picture, but they have feathered legs. Take your...
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    Am I a Vivian or a Vinnie

    Vinnie
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    moral thoughts

    I think they're as cute as can be and don't seem to be suffering at all from the dye. It will wear off when they lose their down anyway. We eat green and yellow and red and blue food coloring, don't we?
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