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    feed costs/amounts

    Its time to buy some more feed so ive been pouring over some records and comparing to some other sources. Another source i recently read stated a non-laying chicken would consume 60lbs of freed a year. and a laying bird nearly 90lbs. As all my birds arnt laying i used an avg of 80lbs/yr based...
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    Poultry as livestock forum

    Ive found backyard chickens less and less useful as my backyard flock of 2 chickens has grown into a flock of 30+ hens with roosters. The backyard "pets" have moved from small tractor style coupes to "large" barns. The girls stop being named and as egg sales climbed costs vs review became...
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    barn brooder

    Whats the style that is roughly 4' sq, has 8" plywood sides that sit about 2" off the ground on corner legs. light in the middle. We are about to brood a set of chicks and we are in a new setup, having a proper barn and all... Im thinking of useing this style. anyone have insights on...
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    forum options

    were did all the forum options go? threads per page posts per page show avatars show signatures show locations/details use "_____" style use HTLM formating in responses you know... the options?
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    barn coupe pen

    The new property we moved to has a 3 story 1914 timber framed dary barn with full livestock basement. The old coupe is still at our old property. We intend to move it but many more things come before that project. At the time of the move our flock had been whittled down by predators to a...
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    processing insights

    third time for us to process birds. our first ever batch was 22 corishx this spring bought heavy bread roo chicks for a second batch. took the first 12 of those roo's 2 weeks ago. took the last 21 or so today. Avg weight was about 4 lbs. up a half pound over the ones 2 weeks ago. The...
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    Processing knives

    What do you use for knives to process your chickens with? From the artery cutting at the cones to the processing table..... what do you use? Second and perhaps most important.... How do you keep them sharp?
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    Lets pick a roo!

    With our batch of 50 left over (mostly roo's) we got for meaties, we are going to keep a couple of roos for "breeding". There are 2 contenders for barred rock (ish type) russell crow Harvey There will be a buff orp selection coming also as soon as we can get a decent pick of the...
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    first 12 large breed roos

    this past may13 we got a group of 50 left overs. out of those 50 we ended up with about 10 hens which we moved out of the "boys pen" at around 7 weeks. wound up looseing about 10 or so to coons before i could trap them all out. Today we took what we thought were the largest 12 roos, mostly...
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    whats in our surprise package?

    So either tomorrow morning or perhaps Fri we will receive our new batch of 50 chicks. hears the kicker, they are a mix bag of heavy layers "just the leftovers" group from the hatchery marketed as mostly cockerels with some pullets. So what do YOU think we will get? 10 girls and 40 boys...
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    Our processing setup

    Yesterday (fri) was processing day! went as uneventful as a first time processing can go i suppose. the highlights what a raw killing cone looks like in flat form before ive trimmed the top and bottom edges. The finished result (sorry no pic as of yet) is almost exactly what a commercial...
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    Plasson bell drinker.

    so our pasture pen has been in service about a week now. one thing we noticed right away that even with the 2.5 (ish) gallon waterer we were having to fill water nearly twice a day. Knowing that water demand was just going to go up as they got bigger, we quickly agreed to move to the bulb...
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    Feed question

    I did search but found nothing that precisely addressed my question. (so ill ask) 1) Do you feed your nuggets (er meeties) chick starter grower (if you do how long do you feed it) Or do you start right out of the shell with meet bird feed? 2) Anyone else just feed pre-bagged meet bird feed...
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    pasture pens.

    The DH here.... Tis my job to get a pasture shelter built to house our new nuggets on legs..... (see https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=309096) While BYC has a nice coupe section, have there been any threads (or subforum) dedicated to the larger portable pens or pasture...
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    Dog attack

    SO about a month ago a dog got in the neighbors chicken pen and got all but 1 chicken (5 in total i think). They called animal control but nothing much was done. Unfortunately the dog decided to hit my free range girls today. We started last year with 11, and we had lost one hear and there to...
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    egg pics

    so ive got about 3 of my 8 new girls laying now. (if you remember i had 9 new chicks, but i lost one about a month ago)
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    Help i got pecked on and my head is very sore now.

    So for the past few weeks dad has been letting me and my sisters out every night to mingle in the big coupe. Mostly the big girls stay up top on there roosts but come morning, boy they are mean! Dad has let us out in to the pen a few times but with the big girls on the other side. Its really...
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    Big girls and little girls together!

    Well today was the day. Spent a couple of hrs working up an enclosure inside the big coupe for the little girls. The top lifts off, the front is fixed. Still have to migrate to the tray feeder which will have a permant home in the corner. (just pour a scoop of food in every day or...
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    Tips and tricks

    its there a tips and tricks thread floating around? If not it would be a great thread to sticky once we got some posts going. For instance. I noticed (after looking at pics) that many people just tie there hanging feaders. I use those little 50cent carabiner at the hardware store so its...
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    mixing "chicks" and hens

    im looking for info on how, when, were people have introduced there new chicks (young pullets) to the rest of the flock.... Ive tried searching but dont quite know what to search for. Im shure the question has been asked before. as to my situation. I have 2 laying hens, 1 coupe big enough...
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