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Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!
I've had chickens for just over a year so I'm a newbie when it comes to managing a flock, but I'm a farmgirl of several generations so I've got lots of experience with livestock in general. Here's what I've learned about raising chickens in your backyard but with an animal husbandry mindset...- Daisy8s
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- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!
Quote: Centrarchid, I was wondering when you'd show up on this thread! Yes, yes, please do post some vocalization recordings. You talk about reading your flock's sounds so often in your "front porch" thread that I've often wished you'd share your knowledge.- Daisy8s
- Post #1,835
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!
Fred's Hens : Daisy8s, There is absolutely nothing wrong in gifting erstwhile needy people with culls. Nothing in the world. I've butchered more chickens in my life than ..... well, it's in the thousands. Still, with so many folks I know who need the meat? Giving them live birds and...- Daisy8s
- Post #1,834
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!
I'm a newbie to chicken ownership so here is a thought regarding culling for any other newbies who cannot face this job. We happen to know a number of Malaysian refugees through our church. When it was time for me to cull three non-layers I simply gifted the hens to a family with a lot of...- Daisy8s
- Post #1,820
- Forum: Managing Your Flock