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    MORE NEEDED TO WINTERIZE COOP?

    Hi, Here's some photos of our new coop. The inside does not have a 'ceiling'...it is open to the metal roof/rafters. Do you think more needs to be done to keep it 'warmer' in the winter? It can get very cold here with wind chills minus 30 plus during the worst winter months. I realize they...
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    Adding two more laying hens...questions about integrating them...

    Hi, We have a good sized chicken coop, divided in half, with one side containing my meat king hen, and the other side with two leghorn hens, but they are fully visible to each other. The meat king and leghorns do not like each other so I have kept them separated and all are very happy with this...
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    HEN ON ALERT...DON'T KNOW WHY...NEED SOME THOUGHTS ON THIS...

    Hi, I can't seen to download videos so I have to describe what is happening and hope some of you out there can shed some light. My year plus old meat king hen, Coconut, has done the following behaviour twice since yesterday, once out in her fenced yard and once in her coop: She stands there...
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    Introducing young hen to older hen...need your advice

    I have a year old meat king pet hen named Coconut who shares a large shed/coop with two laying hens. It is divided in half as Coconut and the laying hens do not like each other and fight. They have full visual sight of each other though. Coconut's mate, a rooster, had to leave us a few months...
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    DAY OLD CHICK WITH USELESS LEG

    We brought home 50 day old meat kings today and one has a bad right leg. It's straight out with limp foot. It can sometimes bend the leg, but the foot is still useless. It cannot put any weight on it and flops around. We think it's broken. What do we do?
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    CHICKEN BATH DID WONDERS

    This is probably very boring to read, but I gave my meat king pet hen, Coconut, a much needed bath the other hot day, in a low rubber horse feed tub, and she loved it. She had a very dirty rear end (despite having a very clean coop). She sat there quietly and only flapped her wings once when...
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    KELP MEAL....FREE CHOICE OR IN FEED?

    Hi, Just curious if people feed the kelp meal to their chickens in their feed or free choice? I've read it shouldn't be more than 1% of their feed. I've fed it free choice and also have sprinkled a tad over their feed. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.
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    ODD BEHAVIOR IN MY HENS?

    Ok, so I'm relatively new to chickens but two things are happening in the coop that I don't understand: 1. This is what sometimes happens when I enter the half of the coop that contains two leghorn hens who are a few years old: One of them freezes and spreads its wings out a bit, head down...
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    Pest Pistol

    Does anyone know where I can purchase a pest pistol, like one in photo, in Canada? Thanks.
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    Your Opinions Wanted On this Photo Of Hen's Comb

    Hi, Hoping to get some thoughts on my meat king hen's 'pale' comb. She appears to be very healthy otherwise, no pests that I can see on her. She is a year old meat king. Thanks.
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    Coconut Doesn't Miss The Rooster...

    Well, Kiwi our meat king rooster got real aggressive a few months back and made our lives miserable (or mine at least), and he was really hard on Coconut as she was the only meat king hen, so we found a lovely person to give him a humane 'goodbye'. I have to say that it appears that nobody...
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    Ground Flax and Oyster Shells and Another Question...

    Three questions please: Other than increasing the omega 3 in eggs (which I don't need or want to do), does ground flax have any benefit for my hen's physical health? Is it safe to feed a bit of oyster shell to my pet meat king hen who is laying eggs? (Just where she is such a large bird...
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    Rooster turned mean...

    So my meat king pet, Kiwi, is about a year old and a few months ago he unfortunately became aggressive towards me despite formerly being a true dear bird who received alot of attention. I would like to know how long this aggression lasts...5 or 6 months as the internet states? or longer...
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    Will my chickens get sick on grass?

    We are building a chicken coop which will include a good sized grassed area for our 2 laying hens and 2 meat king pets. None of them, to date, have had any access to grass really. We have mowed and racked the area but by the time they get in it the grass will probably be a good 6 to 7 inches...
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    MEAT KING PET....ON HER WAY OUT I THINK...

    I have a 9 month old meat king pet hen, Coconut, who has not been doing well lately, and i believe, sadly, that she may be dieing. In the past week she has been doing the following: laying down most of the day; when laying down she sometimes raises her head, opens her beak, and takes a...
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    One rooster with one hen...both are meat kings...is this ok for the hen?

    Hi, I've read that one rooster, especially a meat king, is too much for one hen, even if she is a meat king herself. I have two meat king pets, a hen and a rooster, who are approximately seven months old, have always been each others best friend, and both appear healthy and happy. The hen has...
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    Processing Plant Process and Question Please...

    Before we took our meat kings to the government approved processing plant back in September I had very mixed feelings. (We couldn't find a local person to kill them with conventional methods which I thought would be kinder). I had googled the killing process in a plant but wasn't sure if it...
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    Meat King Pet Advice

    Hi, Interested in hearing from anyone who has a meat king (cornish x) kept back as a pet and what they feed it. I have two five month olds. I am feeding them 1 cup of layer mash in the morning, about 1 cup of ground up carrot noonish (with a bit of layer mash in that), and 1 cup of layer mash...
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    Coconut layed an egg!!!!

    My just over five month old pet Cornish X (aka Meat King) hen, Coconut, layed a brown egg today! I have shown it next to one of our laying hens eggs to show it's smaller size, and here is a photo of her taken a few months ago. Apparently the red ear lobes depict the color of the egg. I am new...
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    Feeding MEAT KING Pet...

    Hi, I'm new on here and hoping for some positive feedback about two meat kings I have kept as 'pets' when the rest of the flock (about 45 of them) went for 'processing' at a government inspected plant a few days ago. I do realize meat kings are not intended as pets as their life expectancy is...
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