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    Selling the Flock!

    We're selling all of our Chickens - 23 brown-egg layers, and 3 Brahma Roosters. They all are less than a year old, we collect about 9-10 dozen eggs each week, and sell them locally. This is a mixed-breed flock - a couple of Australorps, two or three Buff Orpingtons, 1 Naked Neck, some brown...
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    Substitute for Oyster Shell

    I'd like to know if there is a good calcium substitute for Oyster Shell. For personal and allergenic reasons, my wife can't have anything with shellfish ingredients in it, so we dry and grind up our egg shells as a calcium replacement. However, I'd like to find another source for calcium for the...
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    Ate one of my chickens today!

    Yep, we ate one of the CornishX that we butchered a couple of weeks ago. It tasted great! As Fat Daddy has said somewhere, (not a direct quote), -- We raised it, we fed it, we know what kind of food went into it, we killed and processed it, so even tho it may have cost more than the Wally World...
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    Montana Redneck Chicken Coop

    This is our chicken coop. So far, no complaints from the neighbors, except one who wants to hear the roosters crow in the AM! This is the 'baby' pen for new hatches or purchases. Inside the coop, we have a 2'X2'X8" run for the youngest, and it leads to the outside by a door in the lower front...
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    Reasonable shipping costs for eggs

    So I have a question ..... I've looked into buying eggs from a private party rather than buying chicks from a hatchery, (I thought the resulting hatch might be a better chicken from a private individual) ..... but when I found the eggs I was interested in, the individual wanted $120 for a dozen...
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