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Okay, that makes sense. Thank you. Your post on your 2nd gen. birds is what got me thinking about holding some back after I had already decided to freeze all of them. I'm glad to hear you're having good results. I think I'll try my hand at it!

I am getting ready to process some Freedom Rangers today. I'm trying to decide whether to hold back a few for breeding. My hang-up is that I only have one coop for my grown birds (layers and otherwise) and want to hatch under Buff Orpingtons. If I don't have them seperated as Freedom Rangers...

This is great info for me! I'm going to be slaughtering some FR's and DP roo's in the next week. I had planned to keep some FR's back from the brings of the freezer but then decided to put them all up. Now I'm re-thinking that!

Quote: I haven't seen the 2.5 gallon bags! I'll have to look for them. Butcher paper would probably work for a while but I would think it would get freezer burn faster that way.

I have some retired layers that I'm going to be butchering. How do you utilize yours? Soups, etc? Grind the meat? Crockpot? What works and what doesn't?

If you have bigger birds that you slaughter, how do you package them to freeze? Gallon bags don't seem big enough nor do vaccuum-packing film. What have you found?

Quote: I went ahead and printed this article out after reading it. It had some great info in it and I'm horrible with finding old posts! Thank you for that!

Great info. thank you all!

Perfect! thank you both! So I'll plan to slaughter them with the Freedom Rangers that are coming tomorrow probably. That will make them 21 wks and another small batch 17 wks. together with our FR's which will be 12 wks. That will keep us from doing 9 at one slaughter and then 6 the next and...

I recently incubated a bunch of eggs - barred rocks, reds, astrolopes, coocoo marans.... mostly mixed breeds. I'm planning to keep the hens and freeze the roos. They are 9 wks old now. I know that "standard" age is 12 wks but I'm wondering if that's for cornish X's or Freedom Rangers or any...

Thanks. After reading some back posts, I'm starting to think it may be mites or lice and that I'm not able to see them because maybe the numbers aren't high enough yet. I cleaned their coop really well today and I think I'll treat with DE tomorrow as well as try to go out and get some...

What are the common reasons for feather loss in a flock? My birds are just finished moulting in the last month and I have a couple with bare spots and some that are starting to look thin or bare in spots. I've looked closely and see no mites. They are not pulling each other's feathers out...

Thanks Beth. It's been about a week and 1/2 already and it seems like it's getting worse if anything. I suspect I'm out of luck but I'm going to go through your links and give it one more shot. I really appreciate your help!

Anyone? Please?

No, his hip is fine. I mean, if I take him out of the brooder box and set him on the smooth concrete of my garage floor, he can't keep his leg under himself. He can't bear weight and can't uncurl his foot so that leg looks like he's standing on an ice-skating rink and his foot keeps slipping...

I have a 4 wk. old RIR chick that hatched in my incubator. He seemed fine originally. At about 2 1/2 wks. I noticed that he was kind of holding his left wing out a little and thought it odd. Decided to take him out and put him outside in a private little coop alone (he's the only chick we...

Well, he's doing better. Both eyes are open and he's standing and walking. Wing is still droopy and right foot is still turned in. Off to learn about splints for his leg.

That would be great if I had one that was broody. I don't seem to have any with that propensity.

I have one going for the first time right now. They were due to hatch today. I have one that started hatching yesterday and I had to help today. Looks deformed a bit. The others haven't hatched at all, although they candled well 3 days ago. I have no experience with any other incubators but...

I have one that I had to help out of it's shell today. It had part of a wing sticking out and nothing else and couldn't get out further. Now that wing (left) seems to hang down instead of in the correct position. He also has his right foot turned inward. Can't stand on his own. He can stand...