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  1. DadandJB

    Two CX questions...

    I processed the first of our CX flock on Saturday. There were five roosters in the group of nine. Each weighed seven pounds and were seven weeks old. The processing went very well. I made a killing cone and it worked perfectly. I kept the five roos calm in a large crate covered with a...
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    Sick meat chicks, need fast advice

    When I checked on the chicks this morning, everything seemed fine. When I got home from work, the DW informed me that one of the younger meat chicks had died. She also said that one was congested. I immediately went to the coop and checked on them. One of the chicks is indeed congested and...
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    Brooder question

    I'm moving the cornish X out to the coop where I am building a larger brooder for them. Will I have to put a wire cover on it? The brooder will be 24" high. They are getting so chubby now that I doubt they could fly very high, but I want to be sure. I don't want to just turn them loose in the...
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    We got our chicks

    JB and I have our new chicks. We got them on 3/14 when they were 5 days old. Currently we have 24 chicks: 9 Cornish X, 6 Black Australorps, 3 Red Sexlink, and 6 Amberlinks. We had 10 Cornish X and 4 Red Sexlinks but I accidentally killed one of the sexlinks under the waterer. (yeah, I know. How...
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    Change of plans

    Jb and I were originally going to start out with meat chickens for our first foray into the poultry world. However, after talking to my brother and a couple of friends who raise chickens, we decided to start with layers instead. We were told that starting out with cornish X could very possibly...
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    Beginner questions

    I hope this is in the right place... My wife, daughter and I have decided to try our hand at raising chickens. We are going to start with Cornish Cross meat chickens and if all goes well, move into egg layers; probably Leghorns. We would like to get our chicks in the spring, which gives us...
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    Hello from Dad and JB

    My daughter JB and I are going to start raising some chickens in the spring. We have a couple of acres on a mountaintop here in West Virginia. We want to start small and we have a few questions. Would it be best to start with a few (maybe 6-12) meat chickens? Our logic is that if it doesn't work...
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