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    Taste of Cornish cross birds

    Interested in your opinion on the taste/flavoring of Cornish cross birds? We recently butchered 30 birds and cooked our first couple homegrown chickens for dinner and wasn't impressed! How do you all feel about the taste of Cornish cross?
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    Silkie/Polish crested hens (laying eggs)

    Hi all. I currently have 13 chickens, 12 which are hens. I have 6 hens that are almost two years old & 5 silkies/polish created chickens added to my flock in Feb (born in Feb). All my chickens are free range, and my big girls go into the coop each night whereas my newbies have found a home under...
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    Preparing for Winter - In MO...

    Thank you for all who replied, you guys made me feel much better!
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    Preparing for Winter - In MO...

    We live in the city, and the are no wooded areas around at all. The commonly seem animals in our neighborhood are dogs and cats... I'm sure I've been lucky. At first I was going behind them and closing up after they went in at night, & opening every morning, but then decided to just leave it...
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    Preparing for Winter - In MO...

    This will be my girls first winter outdoors, they will be one years old in December. We live in MO and I"m trying to get an idea what I need to do to be prepared for winter. Our coop is is really for roosting/nesting... there is plenty room to roam, however my chickens are free ranging all day...
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    Broody hen

    Let me know how long you keep her in there and if it works!
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    Broody hen

    Hey Messipaw, did your hen come around? Mine is stillllllll trying to hatch these eggs!!! I locked her up a few times for hours at a time but I feel bad for her and let her out! Someone help... What should I do?!
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    Broody hen

    I'm just wondering when it will stop, I hate to cage her??
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    How to keep hens from having a featherless back side and just looking scraggly?

    If I had to guess, it's your roosters doing that to your hens?? I'm not sure you can stop that unless you get rid of your roosters...??
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    Broody hen

    This has been going on for a whole week now...
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    Broody hen

    I have a RIR hen that is broody and I need to figure out how to break her or if I should leave her be and nature will run it's course, and shell come back around??? We don't have any roosters so we won't get any chicks, I've been taken her out of the nest 2-3 times a day to make sure she is...
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    What kind of chick am I?

    Ahhhh, and what exactly happens after a few months? They croak over and die?? Folks use these birds to butcher? Feed them good, then eat them?
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    What kind of chick am I?

    They are yellow chicks, three weeks old, and eat like CRAZY!!! They are very solid birds, I'm not sure what kind of chicks they are...
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    Think these are roo's or pullet's?

    Ok thanks everyone!
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    Think these are roo's or pullet's?

    They are 11 weeks old... What is it about #2 that makes you think rooster? I have a Easter egger chick that is def a roo, same age, but looks like a rooster, why is this one less defined?
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    Think these are roo's or pullet's?

    Any particular reason why you think #2 is a rooster?
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    Think these are roo's or pullet's?

    have Any idea?
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    Think these are roo's or pullet's?

    #1 #2 #3
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    Any idea what breed these chicks are?

    No feathered feet, we got these from a Local 4H, a classroom hatched them and have then to me, but they weren't sure what kind they were... So I was curious what need they are... Maybe some more chicken experts will view this and tell us what kind they yellow ones and the grey one is! I'm...
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    Any idea what breed these chicks are?

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