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  1. Justin

    Help Please!

    First time hatching....Out of 27 eggs, approx 15 are hatched. Chirping started at 11pm on Thursday. I haven't opened the incubator yet, but wondering when I should. The first chicks hatched sometime around noon yesterday. I'm running to the feed store to get some chick feed, get everything...
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    Hatching today!!!

    I put some eggs from my BO's in on the tenth and last night they started chirping and now their are 7 chicks out so far!!! I'm using a Little Giant still air model with the egg turner (turner is out now). I haven't really put that much effort into it except making sure that there was water in...
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    Limits on raising meaties

    Hello all, I'm considering slowly raising the volume of meat birds I raise. I'm aware of the 1000 and 20,000 bird limits, but I am a little concerned with the difference between the two. I am a little confused about the "sanitiation" stipulations in the federal law with regard to processing...
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    Finally we have chickens in the freezer!!!! *Graphic*

    After losing our first batch of meaties to a weasel at about three weeks, we did our second batch this weekend.... Laying out our game plan...that's me on the left, my brother in the middle and a good buddy who has butchered thousands of chickens... I tried a variety of cones for the 40...
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    Coon hounds

    I recently had my flock of 22 cornish cross wiped out by a family of coons.....a buddy of mine who lives just a bit away has coon hounds. I was thinking of inviting him over for a little fun on a Friday night! Does anyone have any experience with the sucess of driving coons off with dogs. Of...
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    22 Cornish cross dead!!!

    Well.....went out this morning to put the feed out for my 5.5 week old cornish crosses, and there they were all dead. Necks ripped open, some with missing heads, and most with all the feathers pulled off of the breasts. I'm thinking it has to be raccoons, but ??????? I was moving the pen last...
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    Another first egg....from my Buffs!!!!

    WHOOO hoooo!!!!! 20 weeks and 5 days old. Right in the golf ball peppered nest box!!!! Happy day....
  8. Justin

    My coop, run, and new chicken tractor!!!

    Just though I would share some pictures of our attempt with chickens!!! This coop began life as a fish house, and I picked it up for free from a woman who tried to raise chickens for 2 years and never got an egg! She had lots of problems with predators and never had the coop secure enough...
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    So....I ordered a featherman plucker today...

    Placed my order for a Featherman Pro today. Does anyone here have one that they rent out? I'm just curious to the problems they may have encountered with renting it out. (Like borrowing anything out) I would like to make a little bit of the money back and offer people the opportunity to use...
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    Male Cornish X taste different than Pullets??

    I'm going to be getting some meat birds this fall, and would prefer the larger males, but I am a little confused as to the difference in taste. I've read a little about caponizing. (Although I'd never dream of attempting it) Is there really a difference????
  11. Justin

    Masculine Buff Orpington hen?

    I got 13 buff orpington chicks this spring and things have gone great so far. I do have one bird that is larger than the rest and looks very masculine. I have looked at a lot of the posts on here of others with orpingtons and the common feature that separates the hens from the roosters is the...
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