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    Raising buckeyes for meat...I could be happier

    This last weekend I harvested my buckeye roosters -- I had 15 roos from hatchery (Ideal) stock. And...I have issues. I'm aware that hatchery buckeyes are not up to the breed standard, so I had expected these chickens to be smaller and less "meaty" than the better bred meat-class buckeyes...
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    Easy gender test

    These are 15 week old chickens and I'm 85% sure of their genders -- I just want to get that last 15% before sell them as started pullets or put them in the pot. There are 4 chickens under discussion: buff orp, splash orp, BLRW, light brahma. Roos or hens? My guess: the BO is a roo and the...
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    day range vs. tractors on very uneven pasture

    I've been examining my meat bird raising setup and considering what to do in the future when I expand. Right now I'm working out of the yard next to my barn, but I'd like to move my meat birds onto pasture for the health of the birds and for the health of the yard. The problem is that my...
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    Really ugly skin lesions on a 4-week-old chick -- is this marek's?

    I have a large brooder full of chicks at 4 weeks old and only noticed this poor guy today because he was getting picked on. He's got huge lesions all over him, mostly on his face, but also on his feet and his chest: The lesions that are bloody or scabbed (dark) are probably that way...
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    forever spoiled by homegrown

    For a month now I've been eating my homegrown barred rocks, which are so so so tasty. Every recipe I make with them is better than anything I've had before; they are like chickens+30%. I marvel about it every time I put one into my mouth. They are awesome. Today at work they fed us...
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    I don't think I'm doing it right

    The subject is the killing of chickens using killing cones and cutting the carotid artery. I've processed about 30 chickens now using this method, and I'm not sure I'm doing it right. I've read that when its done properly, the chicken just "goes to sleep" and other than the minimal thrashing...
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    what do I do without power???

    I'm nervous. I'm 12 days into a hatch and the weather report says there's a series of really big storms coming in -- maybe as much as two weeks worth, including very high winds. I live out in the boonies and when we have storms the power often goes out, sometimes for as much as a few days. We...
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    Building the bigred tractor (PICS)

    Somewhere in some other topic that I've since lost bigredfeather posted pictures of his chicken tractor, which he made from 2x2s and plywood, with a door on the side to let the birds free range. I'd been researching tractor designs for a long time and needed something that was not quite so huge...
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    4-week-olds getting aggressive, fighting

    I have 24 straight run barred rock chicks, a little over 4 weeks old. They're in a big homemade brooder, about 4x8 feet. This is my first time brooding chicks -- all of my chicken experience has been with adults. Up until yesterday everything was fine, everyone was feathered out and healthy...
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