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    Suggestions Please! Low-Stress Handling and Weighing for Meat Birds

    As chick season arrives, I'm making plans for raising Red Ranger meat birds, my second year raising a flock of birds to butcher! I'm very interested in doing this as cheaply as possible while also providing the highest quality of life for the birds possible before they meet their demise. This...
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    Trying to ID Chick's Moms and Color Genetics

    Hello hello! Hopefully this subforum works for my topic! I hatched 8 eggs from my flock about...2 weeks ago? The eggs are from one rooster and three hens. We only got a visual confirmation of two chicks coming out of specific eggs, and all the chicks look VERY similar, but their mothers are...
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    What are these organs???

    I wrote my big write-up of my first meat bird harvest earlier, but I also need to know...what the heck is going on with some of these bird insides! I figure if I'm going to be sticking my hand inside a bird and yanking all this out, I should at least know what everything is called. Figure 1...
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    First year raising Redd Rangers - data & insights

    On, I believe, my 6th year of keeping backyard chickens, I decided I was ready to give larger-scale meat production a try. I ordered 40 Redd Rangers chicks 12 weeks ago, and as of today we have the birds butchered, weighed, and in the freezer. I collected a lot of data along the way to get an...
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    Chickenkeeping, year 4: The Roostering

    So, if you look through my past threads, you can watch my rooster struggle over the last couple years. Rooster #1 was an unforgivable bastard! And Rooster #2 showed up when my hens were still recovering from the first guy's bullcrap, and he wasn't that great either. By the end of last summer...
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    How poopy is too poopy?

    Hi, chicken friends! I am in need of some guidance. I am...on my fourth year of keeping chickens, I think, and I need some help on what to do/not do for poopy butts. I have 8 hens with a run and free range access, who in the last year or so will have a bit of white poop tracking down their...
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    Breed suggestions for docile roosters?

    So, my last two years of chickenkeeping have mostly just been rooster trouble. I currently have a flock of...I think 8 two-year-old hens and 2 pullets. Last year's girls grew up with a Dominique cockerel who was an absolute nightmare and ended up being my first cull earlier this year. This...
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    Lost my favorite hen

    I went out to the chicken run and had a nasty surprise this afternoon. Two years ago I lost 7 out of 8 hens in my very first flock to a management mistake and some coyotes. The last chicken, a silver gray Dorking named Candy, lived in my basement until the next spring when I had a safer run...
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    Aggressive rooster issues

    Hi there! I could really use some input from other rooster owners about my situation. I am new to chicken keeping and am not sure what is normal here. I got my first rooster last year as a chick, a Dominique. As he matured he became more and more territorial toward humans and animals and...
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    Hello hello!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I got my first set of chicks about three years ago and have been finding my way since then. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I’m currently at 8 hens, 2 pullets and 1 oopsie cockerel. (3) What breeds do you have? Lots of...
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