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I hope this is the right place to post this. My neighbor and I decided we'd keep hens for eggs and then butcher to eat the older hens and replace them w/younger egg layers. She's now ready to butcher her RIR hens and replace them. Is it safe to eat or normal practice to eat hens if Marek's...

How do they compare to cornishX in length of time to process? How do their feathers compare in removal? I'm ready to order meat chicks now and was happy with the cornishX last year but am thinking of adding a few red broilers this year, not sure if I want black broilers- depends on the pin...

I grew up watching boxing on the telly as a child so after watching my two ganders this past week I finally have perfect names for those boys:) The smaller gander was bossing around the bigger gander last week and the smaller gander has been mating my big Toulouse goose named Grayzie. He's now...

She feels like my standard LF Wyandotte hens body when I pick her up. She's a bantam but what? I'd like to order more of her this Spring.

A big Boxer and a little boxer go thru learning adventures with the moral of the story??? It usually was a baby blue cover with the two boxers standing upright and I loved that comic book...anyone my age remember?

How do you measure for a leg band on grown Buff Orps? I have had two broody BO hens raise two hatches this past summer, one hatch is two months older than the other and I would like to band the birds to keep track of the hatch and generation, especially to visually note which two were my...

I hate it! I do it myself but it is a very hard thing for me. I know I have to when there are too many roo's but even that isn't easy! I favor the roo's. People gave me their birds when I first started, and I asked if I could have some of those instead of someone raising the egg layers to...

I mated my awesome BO roo to my very dark red RIR hen and plan to remate one of the red son's back to the dark RIR hen next but in the meantime, I am raising four pullets and another young roo from this mating. Do you find these birds are as hardy as the purebred BO or RIR? Do you find these...

I'm downsizing and am very happy with the Orps, all around. The banty's are wonderful, too. But, I keep falling in love with the roo's and now am having a hard time deciding which banty roo to keep. I have an awesome roo that was given to me and now three of his son's. Daddy roo is gentle...

some coldhearted person would get a city ordinance passed called: "Objectionable Animals" because he doesn't want chickens in city limits. Especially when we are so far North and we all hunt and fish, we have very high prices because 3/4's of the year everything has to be flown in! Eggs are...

Do they have dark egg shells like the LF RIR's? Mine don't, they are almost a white color shell and the chicks hatch out black. I've had the trio at my X DH's and his DW's long enough now that if they'd been mated by other than the roo, it should only be his offspring now. I was in OR in July...

Went to feed the birds last night and found my pullet so swollen in the face she can hardly see, what would cause this and what should I do for her? So far no one else in the coop/pen have any signs of trouble. I just got a new order of pellets, crumbles and duck/goose feed in, none of the...

I've been unemployed suddenly for two weeks now, its been stressful. But I began spinning again:) Yesterday I washed and set the twist in two yarns I made, today it is very bouncy and drying, plus the blue/grey yarn I made looks nice now its washed. I was afraid I'd wasted it all, because I...

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Here's an old link to show pics of what I'm using for an incubator and am doing the dry method with high humidity in the house or room. Yesterday, five hatched, first one is a banty and between last night and tonight, three more, one zipping and three pipped. 35 eggs total in the "bator" and...

Its awkward...but its true what DH said years ago before we got divorced...I attract weirdo's...I'm a Weirdo Magnet...he used to get so frustrated and ask "What are you DOING?!?" And, I'm NOT doing anything! Please tell me what you'd do if: You worked w/your boss and he's recently divorced...

I'm interested in this breed and how they compare to RIR's so please "learn me" here:) Pics are great, too...

now "its" a proudly crowing lil cockerel! This one I've thought all along would be a rooster. Went out to turn on coop lights at 7:30 am and as I was closing the door to the banty coop to go to the next coop I heard crowing so said between the closed door: "Good Morning, Cockadoodle!" Then...

I thought I'd leave the eggs thru the weekend and toss them Monday...woke up to peeping at 1:30 am so I went to ask Mama Blue hen why one of her silkies was crying??? She growled at me her babes were sleeping and to shut up and go away! I kept hearing peeping, started trying to figure out...