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    Raising Chocolate Eggers / Novogen Color Chocolate from Hillside Hatchery / Freedom Ranger Hatchery

    I recently placed an order with Hillside Hatchery (they partner with Freedom Ranger Hatchery, and sell through FRH website) for their Chocolate Eggers. I plan to use this thread to document my experiences. If anyone else has experiences with this "breed", please chime in. The most recent...
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    Poop Board Design for New Hampshire Type Meat Birds - Recommendations?

    Has anyone had success with using poop boards for New Hampshire meat bird strain from Freedom Ranger Hatchery or similar meat chickens? These are really hefty chickens - when mature they are about the size of CX at ~7-8 weeks. Right now they're perching on top of a ~29"x4ft dog crate with a...
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    Chicken perch with poop board - I finally made one (!!!) and have questions

    So I've been meaning to do it for a long time, and finally got it finished, and am super excited about it! I've made a new chicken perch for my largest layer coop/covered run. A comfortable occupancy is around 15-20 chickens, so I built for 15 with space to expand to 20. I've added 1" of...
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    FAIL thread

    Sometimes, things just don't work out, or don't work out how we plan. This is a thread to document those times that ended up at least slightly funny. I'll go first. I keep telling my young kids to put the clip back on the chip bags, and to fold them a certain way so bugs don't get into...
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    Chicken Math Strikes Again

    Chicken math has struck again. But I swear I'm getting better, I swear it! We lost 5 hens this summer, and one (Ativan) hasn't been looking so good. They were production birds, and hadn't been laying for about a year, with spotty production before that, so it was sort of expected, but also...
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    Sick production egger - head tucked in and purple comb tips - heart issue?

    I have a 3 year old Golden Comet (production egger) that is keeping her neck pulled in and hackle fluffed out, and has purple comb tips, up to about half of her comb. She is still walking around, and eating and drinking, but moving around less than normal, acting subdued, her tail is flat...
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    Yardbird Chicken Plucker - Needs Fuse Replacement and I Have Questions- Can you help?

    So, I have a Yardbird chicken plucker that I acquired used, and it needs a fuse replacement. How much do the fuses usually cost, who would I contact to help me change it, and how much of a pain is it? I'm not electrically savvy, so I don't feel comfortable doing this repair myself. If I want...
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    Canadian Geese sleeping in the parking lot aka Geese Potatoes

    Thought you guys might appreciate these pictures of the Canadian Geese who decided to take a nap in the parking lot in the middle of the day. It was super cute, IMO. Perfect geese potatoes. Those beady black eyes sure did watch me as I drove right by them, but they never stirred.
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    • Forum: Geese
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    My Cracked-In-the-Head Olive Egger and Her Weird Nesting Spot. Want to help me name her?

    So, I bred some olive eggers this past year and decided to keep one. She's turned out to be a bit cracked-in-the-head. Instead of using the semi-private nest boxes everyone else is content to use (4 nest boxes ought to be enough for 8 laying hens, at least, that's what I thought), she has...
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    • chicken names cracked-in-the-head crazy chicken crazy hen hidden nest messed up chicken olive egger weird nesting location
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    • Forum: Pictures & Stories of My Flock
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    Chickens for sale in Huntsville AL area (Blue, Green, Olive, Brown, Tan pullets hens cockerels eggers, dual purpose, meat birds)

    I have the following chickens for sale in Huntsville/Madison/Harvest area in Alabama. Life happens, and I'm downsizing. Colored Eggers 1 green egger pullet, ~5m old (Whiting True Blue x Red Star), should be excellent daily or near-daily layer, $20 3 blue eggers pullet, ~5.5 m old (Whiting...
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    • blue eggers; brown eggers; chickens; cockerels; colored eggers; for sale; green eggers; olive eggers; pullets; tan eggers;
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    • Forum: Chickens 8 Weeks & Older
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    Unexpected grass death when processing chickens

    Had an unexpected grass death as a result of processing chickens. I was scalding them prior to plucking, and the water got up to 160-170F, and I was trying to cool it down, so I poured some out on the grass, and added cool water to make it 145F. When I did that I killed my grass. There is a...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Background: This thread is to document my experiences with Freedom Ranger hatchery's White Rangers (3m broiler very similar in appearance to CX) and New Hampshires optimized for meat production. My previous meat bird experience has been with a straight run 25 bird batch of Cornish Rock Cross...
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    Anyone seen Angel Wing in Meat Birds? Seeing it in New Hampshires and White Rangers, wondering causes/solutions?

    Has anyone had Angel Wing show up in their meat birds? Any idea what causes this in chickens or what to do about it? Should I remove these birds from my breeding population? I have 2 month old Freedom Ranger New Hampshires (dual purpose but optimized for meat) and White Rangers (CX derived...
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    UPDATED w/pics - Pls Help - Adult chicken slipped tendon? Leg goes sideways in 2m New Hampshire. Can I fix it?

    UPDATE: Added Pictures. Pls help! I have a New Hampshire from Freedom Ranger Hatchery, optimized for meat (dual purpose), male, hatched March 10th. Been feeding 23% meatbird food until about a week or two ago when I switched to 20% all flock. Today I noticed he had a leg going out to the...
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    FBCM Hatch Along with Older Eggs 2/11/24 - will they hatch???

    So I crossed my FBCM hen with my Whiting True Blue rooster, grabbed whatever eggs of hers I had sitting around in my kitchen, and put them in the incubator. Will they hatch??? I don't know... The hen lays every 2-3 days, so getting enough eggs to fill the incubator in 7 days isn't going to...
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    Tough bird after pressure cooking. Where did I go wrong?

    I processed an 8 month old Ginger Broiler rooster recently. I skinned him, and his carcass was too big to fit in a gallon ziplock bag, so I cut off the wings, legs, and neck, and rested the carcass in a fridge (laid out the wings/legs flat separate from the body of the bird) for 6-7 days. This...
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    Lost chickens to a flash flood :(

    So at 5:30am I sent my son out to do chicken chores, and he came back in a panic telling me there was a flood. No weather alerts came to my phone (I'm signed up for everything), no warnings ahead of time that there might be anything wrong, and I'm not in a flood zone, so this was totally...
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    Threadworm infection in humans from chickens?

    Have any of you ever gotten a threadworm (capillaria) infection from your chickens? Or other worm infection? Google says they infect people, but I haven't found a good answer on whether the strain that infects chickens is able to infect people also. Trying to determine if I need to change my...
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    Coccidiosis and Strongyle - medication type and dosage?

    The vet did a fecal float and told me he found coccidiosis and strongyle. I'm confused exactly which worms are strongyle (he told me hookworms, but I don't think that's right?). He also told me to treat with Panacur and Corid in the water. I looked around on here, and think I've identified...
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    White Ranger from Freedom Ranger Hatchery - Results and Experiences Anyone?

    Has anyone raised the White Rangers from Freedom Ranger hatchery? How did they grow? What was your experience with these? In particular, I'm interested to know how they compare to Cornish Cross. From the website, it sounds like these have the growth rate and size of a cornish cross (more or...
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