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Sorry about your guy with the mud-crop. It's so hard to end them, and I don't know if I'll ever be comfortable with it. Glad you've got your brother to help you with the end task! I did the same thing with my chicks!! They would lay in the sun with their legs all spraddled out and zombified, and...

That's an enormous chicken!!!

Jessica--- good luck today!! Yes, I'm thinking that's it exactly. I work so bloody hard to keep people alive, that I have a hard time accepting death. It's something that I've grappled with for years, and hopefully eventually I'll come to terms with it. I still cry every time I shoot a deer. I...

Ralphie---Great idea! I think I may have to adopt it for next time. I used elbow grease and my 14 birds tired out my arms. If only I had Popeye and his forearms at my disposal . Linda--- I am sorry about your eggs! Hopefully they are just fashionably late? Jessica--- I was initially okay...

Thanks for the links! Any pipping yet?

We did wind up processing them, on Wednesday. They were just past 8 weeks old. They all dressed out between 5 and 5 1/2 lbs. I miss them... I miss my lawn popcorn running (waddling, really) to see me/get food. Out of my remaining flock, 4 of the 14 had fluid around the heart. The other 10 had...

Maybe because these guys are just starting to get their surges of testosterone, a "time out" would work? Like separate them for a day or two and see if it makes a difference? If they still are fighting after that, I personally would process them. It'd be a lot of work for 3 lbs extra meat total...

Lisa-- isn't it fun watching them as they grow/evolve? I think you're doing everything right :) I'm realizing as I go through this bird-raising part of my life, that worry is inevitable, but it gets better the more I experience each day :) Linda--Wow!! What a day is right! I've been talking to...

I love the video :)) My kids are part of what i love about having birds---their observations always make me smile and reappreciate things. Good looking birds, too! I think they're bigger than mine. DH processed one of the bigger ones a few days ago and he came to 4 lbs 10oz. I was supposed to...

I love the little arena brooder you have set up for them! Nice job. Woo! I am having SFH envy!! They are #1 on my NEED to have in my life list! Did you have your eggs shipped or did you get them locally? Mine would do that periodically if they ate too much in one go (I noticed the piggier of...

Excited for you!! It was like Christmas morning for me when I went to the post office to pick up my box o' peeps. Are you getting them tonight or in the am? (i don't remember if you posted how far away it was) That's a lot of guinea time! Hey, can that count as exercise? I could start my...

Yay for more peeps, DKindness!! Nothing going on in my end of the woods, but I've been reading everyone's updates. Glad everything is going well for everyone!

Congrats on the new peeps! My layers HATE the FF. They eat it grudgingly, they'd rather free range or pick through kitchen scraps. My CX looooooooooooove it. They scarf it down with no qualm.

Holm----What a beautiful lady! Great job with growing her and her being so healthy at 12 weeks! Jessica----love the new babies! I'm glad your neighbor rescued them and you adopted them. So cute! I know I'm behind on all the posts, but I thought I'd chime in.. 75% of my CX chicks are all...

I necropsied the one that I had to kill myself (had a HARD time with it, took me about 15 minutes to get up the nerve to actually swing the hatchet). He had fluid around his heart. Pericardial effusion is what it looked like. He also had an enormous gallbladder. Easily the size of my entire...

I have to corral mine to get into the pen at night too :) 75% go right in at dusk and the others I have to herd into place. Still haven't caught any of the raccoons. At all. But maybe they've been shot by someone else (heard a few random shots go off during the day earlier this week, but it's...

Thanks, everyone. I really appreciate the kind words. I'm exhausted. Hunted/stood watch again last night after work again, and no sign of the coons. They never came back for the kills. I'm going to buy some Have-A-Heart traps and set them up around my property and in the woods. DH wanted to pull...

I haven't even gone back to read the past posts (I've got 18 updates on this thread it says), because I'm up at 5am for work. Yesterday my birds were slaughtered/attacked. By a mother Fing raccoon. I was at work. I called DH at lunch time, he was home working on our stove in the basement (my...

He was 5 weeks old yesterday. I fed them all they wanted for the first 2 weeks, then I put them on a schedule with feedings 4 times a day. They have been outside since 3 weeks of age, but free range for 1 week. I had them in a giant hoop coop with run prior. DH didn't see any object during the...

Love the video :) I'm building a fence across the front end of our property I think so that I'll have peace of mind about the front of house/highway becaaaaause------I've decided to free range my big ladies. One is a fence hopper and always gets out anyway, but I worry about days when I'm at...