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    Questions about lockdown

    Long story short, my power went out for a significant amount of hours during my latest incubation. So I reset the incubator as best I could to the correct number of days left. But I think my egg turner stopped turning about half a day early because of that (maybe even a day and a half early?) -...
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    Welsumer cockerel?

    Hey everyone. I hatched out a couple dozen eggs from a friend's farm about 12 weeks ago. According to him, he's got one welsumer rooster and three varieties of hens: welsumer, Easter egger, and red star. I'm pretty sure this bird hatched from a welsumer egg, but I'm not sure. None of the other...
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    Finally butchering again

    Hey all. Just wanted to post here and say chicken math is real when it comes to meat birds too. I went from a few birds in a season, to 50 a year - enough for the family for a year, to 250 per year - because why not do 250 when you are already doing 50 and sell the extras. Now this year we are...
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    Have chickens, want ducks.

    Hey ya ducksters, I am looking into adding ducks to my homestead. We have a flock of free range laying hens - usually about 100-150 depending on the time of year. We also raise a couple hundred meat birds in mobile pasture pens every season. I had a chef, that often buys our whole chickens...
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    Blue Plymouth Rock

    Has anyone ever had any experience with a breed called Blue Plymouth Rock that is supposed to be a cross between Blue Andalusian and Plymouth Barred Rock? We got 50 chicks late this summer. They are lookers for sure and their drive to forage and dust is unmatched among the other laying breeds...
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    What to do with chicken skin?

    I haven't skinned a chicken since the first couple that I butchered years ago. This was a hatched Ameraucana/Astrolorp Roo that was too beautiful to waste the feathers. My wife salted and strung the skin on this frame that I made for it. Seems like so long ago that we did this. I was looking...
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    Supplemental lighting -affects on long term laying?

    I've seen and heard alot about supplemental lighting and how much it's worth it, economically, to provide extra light to your birds during the dead of winter. I've even seen the difference myself after having used extra light in the winter for my birds. What I failed to record or even try to...
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