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Very very good read Al, and culls taste like chicken

I have been raising chickens for 50 years, and culling always meant they went in the pot. We never thought to look up a word we used so frequently, and all the Old Timers knew what I meant when I culled the roosters from my egg laying hens ( when you order 200 chicks at a time you get quite a...

Quote: I have always suspected this; but never could prove, thanks Al

Quote: Now your talking, rosemary and chicken, is heaven

I think freezer camp came from the chicken butt lickers, chicken saddles, along with with all the other silly mess I have read about on BYC. Freezer is where you put dead meat and it ain't no camp.

Quote: I am in the same boat as you, most of the folks on some of the other threads have been raising chickens (2-3) for a year and someone raising them for 40 something years, that information is to them like it came from people who learned to read off of clay tablets. Us OT folks just shut...

all I can say is WOW, I am impressed

Quote: Bee this is amazing, when I read this .. it was like looking into my own heart ... this is exactly how I feel, before I got my own flock at the age of 13, as I was the oldest it was my job to feed them and clean the coop, so they were in my mind "chores" then my grandmama got me some...

Quote: Sunflowers grow wild all over my property and in the ditches, every year i go around and cut the heads off and store them in kinda of mesh bags i use for storing onions, i hang the bags in the barn and just throw the whole seed heads out to the chickens in the winter, gives them...

Quote: Catching a chicken with the hook is easy if you do it like my Grandma and I do it. You don't use it causally or all the time, only for Sunday dinner or cull purposes, the chickens will learn what the hook does if you use it too much. What you do is toss a little scratch down and come up...

Quote: I've never experienced any chickens with crop stasis, so this is not in my realm of experience. Like Speckled here, I would more than likely cull a bird with "issues" and just not have that breed anymore if it is prone to this malady. This makes husbandry much simpler if one just...