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I hatched three silver campine chicks last summer, and the pullet was small at hatch, gave her vitamins & she stabilized, but never grew as fast as the other two (both cockerels), and by the time they were 12 weeks or so she was less than half their size -- she was always alert and actually much...

I do not have a source of electricity at my coops (could run a long extension cord, but it would need to be *quite* long), so wondering how early you've had chicks outside without heat?

exactly -- we're emotional creatures, but they aren't, for the most part. i remember last fall, one of my two cuckoo marans sisters had somehow cut her toe & was bleeding a bit, and there was her sister, sitting next to her and pecking at that toe to get at the blood... not a lot of sentiment...

it's pretty well established that chickens can't count (for instance, you can add or subtract eggs from under a broody hen and they don't react a bit), nor do have that kind of sense of a causal relationship -- and they're not particularly emotional creatures, beyond immediate needs/interests in...

it's more likely that the other chickens were also very frightened by the fox itself (not just witnessing the other chicken being killed) -- my flock is much more jumpy around my housecats now, after a bobcat attacked earlier this summer -- but i think they have learned to be afraid of a...

butter UNDER the skin (not on top of it), that's my trick for a fabulous roasted chicken... (although these are "just" store-bought free-ranger organics, haven't processed any of my own yet)

hi, i've just been reading this thread for a while, haven't quite gotten to the point of trying out processing myself yet -- but wanted to chime in here on expectations re: cost. it sounds like a lot of people are able to raise their birds very economically, and that's fantastic, definitely a...