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    Hearts, Necks, Livers!!! How do I make Dog Food?

    So I have a chest freezer PACKED FULL of hearts, necks, and livers. Plus we still have another 200 birds to go before our season is over. We will have done about 2,000 birds this year. We raise CX on pasture and they are fed a soy-free organic feed. We do all our processing on farm, and have...
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    Hurricane Irene: what we're doing

    Try having 6 pasture pens out in the field, each with 100 birds in them. Oh yeah, I have 400 chicks in my shed brooding right now too. I live 10 miles from the coast in Delaware. We are freaking out right now. We are going to put all the pens next to eachother in a rectangle and put large straw...
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    Cornish not eating powder/fines in feed

    My Cornish are picking out all the corn wheat and peas in my feed. The mix also has crab meal and nutribalancer (kelp meal and minerals) which are both powdery/fine granular in texture. I am not only wasting feed, but am concerned about nutritional deficiencies and slow gain. This was not a...
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    Humane way to put a chick down?

    I know this is probably gonna upset some folks here, but what is the humane way to put a chick down? I'm sure some will say "never give up" in trying to revive/nurse a chick back to health, but sometimes when a chick is barely breathing/not opening its eyes/has curled toes/is unresponsive, I...
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    Help! Just got chicks. Keep Swimming in waterer

    Just got chicks! 2 days old. They are all alive! Started eating right away and warming up, running around and seem happy. HOWEVER, about 1/2 of all going to the waterer (3 gallon plastic waterer) are climbing into the rim and standing in the water saucer. Any idea on why? I tried changing the...
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