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    Culling - Break Neck Method - BEWARE - NOT A PC JOKE - NOT KIDDING

    Thanks for your input. I did just exactly as you suggested and cut higher toward the head so I wasn't going through tough feathers. No picnic but better by far. Now I have 5 more to do, but I'm going to grow them out more. I swear the breeder didn't send me Red Rangers. These guys are 12...
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    How to Butcher a chicken, by a rookie. G rated

    I am so happy to know where the cut should be made. I too ended up torturing my first bird, attempting to saw through feathers. It was traumatic for me and the chicken both.
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    Culling - Break Neck Method - BEWARE - NOT A PC JOKE - NOT KIDDING

    It was terrible but I have to do 6 more. I swear I have PTSD.
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    Culling - Break Neck Method - BEWARE - NOT A PC JOKE - NOT KIDDING

    I did my first this week. Slit the neck and it was screeching. I couldn't bear it. I cut the rest of the way through the neck. I had to saw! It was awful. The body thrashed so hard that it pulled the cone off it's screws and the body flapped/ran 20 feet away before dropping dead. I realized...
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    North Georgia Pluckers

    Does anyone know anybody who has an automatic plucker, or would be inerested in going in on one?
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    Comment by 'Atlann' in article 'How To Incubate & Hatch Chicken Eggs - Just 21 Days From Egg To Chicken!'

    My darn incy jacked up to 101.4 today. The eggs have been in there 4 days at 99.7 but I'm afraid today's temp cooked them. What do you think? Survivable?
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    YO GEORGIANS! :)

    doh! You'd think I'd get that, as many times as it's been pointed out to me. But, in my defence I'm relatively new...well, 6 years. I lived on the other side of the Metro for a long time. I have what you might call a micro-farm. Maybe micro-mini. Just an acre and only half is cleared. We...
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    Sour Crop CURED with Monistat

    ACV is just apple cider vinegar and you can make it so easily yourself. Rather than go through the instructions, I urge you to Google it. If you can peel an apple and cover the peels and core with water you can make your own organic vinegar with the mother.
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    YO GEORGIANS! :)

    I'm in Emerson, northwest GA just south of Cartersville and north of Ackworth, home of Red Top Mountain State Park.
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    Cream Legbar Rooster Temperment

    I have a pair of cream legbars from the Greenfire line. They are only a month old, but from the get-go the roo has been a son of a gun. Every time I pick him up he fights and rapid fire pecks my hands. I'm deeply concerned about keeping him, though I'd intended to breed the pair. Does anyone...
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    What? Chickens can't eat clover?

    My chicks are less than 2 months old and in a coop with a small run. Twice I've given them a little freshly picked clover, which they devoured, and both times they got terrible diarrhea. I won't give it to them again, I'll tell you that.
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    Georgia on my Mind

    Ok, so my first 3 girls are just over a month old and they have the misfortune of having me for a mama. I know nothing about raising chickens but I'm passionately interested in learning. Much of what I have read is geared to northern climates--fine, I'm a Yankee girl by birth--but I would love...
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    sigh...3 broody hens!

    Sandy, I see you are in Atlanta. So are we, sort of, though we are closer to Cartersville, which is north on 75. Anyway, we got our first chicks a bit over a month ago: a buff orp, a golden sexlink, and an ameraucana. It would be great to connect with you since you have a bit more experience...
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