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  1. Marc33

    Odd hen~roster relationship

    We've got 33 hens and 2 roosters. We have one RIR hen who lays her egg every day inside a chicken tractor, and our Polish Crested rooster stands over her every single day while she lays. Isn't this odd? The romantic in me would love to think they have fallen madly in love and can't bear to be...
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    Joined our Chickens, and Lucky is still lucky!

    We finally have succeeded in joining our "impulse buy" polish hens with our larger flock. It was NOT easy, but much advice from this forum was helpful. It required the unfortunate demise of several roosters, but our four polish hens are now integrated with our larger flock, and seem to be very...
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    Feeding medicated feed to meat birds

    Hello there everyone! We have our entire flock of heavy breed birds on chick starter medicated chick feed. It's about time to start processing the meat birds - is there a problem with them having eaten this feed? Should we take them off of it for a time before processing and eating the meat...
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    Help me join my two groups of chickens!!

    Hi there everyone! I could use some advice. We've got a flock of about 43 chickens - 31 hends and 12 red star males that will be processed for meat in a few weeks. All of these chickens are about 10 weeks old. We also have a group of 6 polish (2 male, 4 female) that are about 8 weeks old and...
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    It's official, I'm addicted

    Yes, I'm addicted to it now. We got our 45 from MM 2 weeks ago, and I then went out for feed sunday and ended up bringing home 2 buff laced polish chicks! Yikes!! I loved seeing the look from my daughter when I brought them in. There is actually a funny story to this. I got them set up in a...
  6. Marc33

    New Babies

    Here are a few pics of the new peeps. Sorry for the bad pics we need a new camera. The cat just loves the little guys! I'll try to get some better ones soon.
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    Help! Pasty Butt

    We've got chicks from McMurray hatchery - they arrived Monday morning. We seem to be having trouble with pasty butt and don't want to lose any of our chicks!! They're in a brooder that is not too crowded, we have two red lamps for heat - the temperature seems about right because the chicks...
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    Chicks are here!

    I got my order from MM this morning and am happy to report all 46 are alive and doing well. I'll get some pics up as soon as I can. They are sure an enegetic bunch!
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    Orders between 25-50

    I was wondering if i order 30 birds, will they stuff the extras in a 25 box or do they fill a 50 box with free males? It doesnt matter to me, i'd use them for meat anyway just wondering? Thanks
  10. Marc33

    Chicken Tractors

    I am starting a new flock this year and was thinking of building a chicken tractor. I'd like to know if anyone has built these and have had success with them. It sounds like a great idea, just wondering...Thanks!
  11. Marc33

    Question about processing

    I am going to get my first batch of meat birds and was wondering what everyone does with the offal? I could dump it in our fencerows but do not want to invite the coyotes to the henhouse. Any suggestions would be great! Thanks
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