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    I think my hatchling got too hot.

    I guess my infared thermometer is off a bit. I put the heat lamp above a new hatchling and measured just under 100F. After a while it went limp and I thought it was dead. It was still breathing, but not responding. I took the heat lamp off and it seemed to recover after a while; it can move it's...
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    Severely crooked toes

    This is a Rhode Island Red about 2 months old. I seem to remember 'helping' it out of its shell. I thought that might have had something to do with it. It seems fine. Walks a little funny, but doesn't seem to complain much about it.
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    Severely crooked toes

  4. 2 day old Rhode Island Reds

    2 day old Rhode Island Reds

    I just started hatching these. I noticed when you hold them in your hands just after they hatch it has a calming effect on them.
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    Egg size may vary...

    I noticed when my hens first started laying the eggs were small. Now I get some big ones and some small ones. I haven't kept track but I'm going to assume the small ones are from the newer hens.
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    All the hens favor the last nesting box

    Oh yeah, the golf/ping-pong ball trick. I've forgotten about that.
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    All the hens favor the last nesting box

    I have a total of 8 nesting boxes but a few of the hens favor the last one. There was 3 in this one just before I took the picture. They do use the other boxes but for some reason, they favor this one. I'm wondering if I should try and separate them. I think I may have got them to stop crapping...
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    Selling fertilized eggs

    ok, thanks, yeah it's the chalazea.
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    Selling fertilized eggs

    I have 12 hens and 3 roosters and I'm getting about 10 eggs a day. I just told the lady at the P.O. who also sells eggs to have people call me that want eggs. I noticed a white embryo attached to the yolk when I break 'em open and I figured that's because the roosters are in with the hens. Is...
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    swoolen feet - could it be gout?

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    Chicken tastes like leather

    I found this: Forums Raising BackYard Chickens Meat Birds ETC After the slaughter and before it's cooked
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    Chicken tastes like leather

    So I have to let it set in the fridge for a couple days AFTER I pluck the feathers using scalding hot water and remove the insides. Correct? If so, I'll try to cook it after and if it's still tough, I'll make stew of out them all. (20+ roosters).
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    Chicken tastes like leather

    ok, yeah, I cooked it immediately after I butchered it. They didn't mention that in the YT video I watched. I need to do a little more research, I guess.
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    Chicken tastes like leather

    I have way too many RIR roosters and finally butchered one of them today. I tried cooking it over coals and that didn't work out. Burnt on the outside and red inside. So I cooked the rest of it up in a pan with butter. Very hard to chew. Like leather. I've had them since the start of May...
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    butchered my first chicken today

    The way I figure - if I'm going to start incubating the eggs, it's just a one time cost because I'll never have to go buy them anymore.
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    butchered my first chicken today

    No, I ate the bird the other night. Yeah, I got these on May 7th and when I realized how many roosters I had, I went back to TSC and got 10 more to try and increase my odds and it looks like the 10 are 50/50. I have a Ronco Shotime rotieserie (sic) so I'm going to use that until I get ahead of...
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    butchered my first chicken today

    Yes, 21 roosters, if that's what you mean. I watched a couple 'how to' YT videos. Still need practice. This one was already dead so I'll have to do the take the knife to the others.
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    butchered my first chicken today

    When I found it, the comb was a dark purple when they are usually bright red, and the 2 that I caught pecking at it were pecking at the comb, so I'm assuming it fell out of favor with the gang and became a target and it lost a lot of blood. Some of the roosters can be pretty mean to the others...
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    butchered my first chicken today

    I have 27 RIRs and I've had them since they were chicks the beginning of May so I think they're full grown now. There's 21 roosters so I've been meaning to cull most of them. I was gone a few hours yesterday and when I came home one of them was just laying on the ground and the others were...
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    One of my roosters acts different from the rest.

    I'm blushing now.
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