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    Summary - My first hatching experience

    21 days ago one of my harco black sex links went broody. I set up a place for her on her own and gave her 9 eggs to sit on. After about a week she had pushed three eggs out of the nest and ate them. So im down to 6 eggs. at 10 days I candle most of the eggs with a high power flash light and...
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    How do you rate your processor?

    are you happy with the your chicken processor? are the rates good? is the job well done? I cant seem to find a processor that dosent rip the legs and wings off half of my birds. I just had a batch done by a different facility than I usually go to and they were even worse. Out of 32 birds, 13...
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    Electric poultry netting good or bad?

    I have a roll of electric netting set up right now that is not energized. I bought it last fall right before the heavy snow came so I just got it set up and let the chickens out for the first time in months. I do not have an energizer, but I figured it would keep them contained until I get one...
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    Canadian source for colored rangers

    I found a hatchery last fall out of Quebec that had a colored ranger stock, but I have lost the link and cant seem to find it by doing a search. Anybody have the link to that hatchery? or a source for colored ranger chicks in Ontario Canada?
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    Butchering roosters compared to Cornish x

    I just culled my first rooster from my flock. It was a frustrating experience. This was my third bird that I processd myself, and It was alot more difficult than the other two. But the others were meatbirds. First I noticed that when I pulled off the feathers the skin was yellow and tough...
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    Rooster in confinement

    I have a rooster seperated in a small room in my basment until he heals up. My hens pecked out all his feathers around his neck and chest, which caused him to get really weak during that last -25 degree cold snap. Then the younger barred rock moved in, and tried to kill him. Beat him up pretty...
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    Removing a rooster from the flock

    In the early winter my hens started to pull out the feathers on my roosters neck, around the same time i closed the door on their coop for the winter. Now he has a bald neck, and the temperatures are about -25 here and he is suffering from cold exposure. I have a younger rooster, a barred rock...
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    Cold chickens? (pics)

    Ive been letting my flock roam again since we have been getting some half decent weather lately. I used to let them out every day, all day. Then it got too cold and the snow got too deep. I had two hawk attacks in two days, so I started keeping them "cooped" up during the day. The temperature...
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    Which roo to keep? (with pics and descriptions)

    I need help choosing which of my three roosters to keep for my flock of 13 hens. Im not sure what characteristics are best. All three roos are quite different. My flock free ranges all day, no fences or barriers of any kind. All of my birds except for a few hens are 14 weeks old. So, I'll...
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    Meatbirds in the FR layer flock

    Ive just finished my first batch of 20 white rock cornish x. They turned out really well and I was quite pleased with the result. This time I would like to try raising another type of meatbird other than the cornish x. The hatchery closest to me (Freys hatchery, Ontario Canada) has what they...
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    When to remove roos

    Unfortunatly right now I have ten hens and 3 roosters. They are only 5 weeks old. The original plan was to exist with 2 roos (incase one died or didnt make it out of the brooder) but the hatchery must have sent me an extra. I plan on free ranging, can I exist with a ratio of 10 hens to 2 roos...
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