An idea....

[coffeelady3]

The rectangular shaped tractors are easier to build (no angle cuts) and you end up with more usable space. I have since learned that the chickens won't use the slanted area where they can't stand up straight. They end up just hanging out in the middle.

 

[SandraMort]

I'd love to know how to find a shochet in New York. I don't currently keep kosher but have friends who do, so being able to bring them chicken when I visit would be really nice. Also, any idea how much it would cost?

Thanks!!!

 

[rebbetzin]

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Back in the "Old County" probably every village had a shochet, but... here in America it is not that easy to find one. We don't have one in all of Arizona! Our meat has to come from other states. Our Trader Joe's carried Rubashkin, until the big flap a while back.

http://www.vosizneias.com/15827/200...ests-expected-at-rubashkin-kosher-meat-plant/

Now it is Empire, for poultry, and I forgot the name of the other company for beef products.

Being in New York, which has probably as many Jews as Israel, it should be too hard to find a shochet, but most of them work now for big meat packing houses. Not at a local butcher shop. I would think in New York City, there ought to be at least a few guys still in that business.

Good luck in finding one...

 

[rebbetzin]

I was just thinking.... in order for the meat to be "Kosher" biblically speaking that is... it needs to have had a "good life" and be killed with ONE stroke of a very sharp knife. If there is even a small nick in the blade the animal is deemed to have suffered too much for the meat to be kosher.

Those who raise their own meat, if they give the animal a good life, and a painless death, drain the blood from the animal.... that is usually enough for the family, but... you most likely won't get a rabbinic hecshure(sp?) that would allow you to call the meat "Kosher" for anyone else to eat.

 

[CATRAY44]

http://www.doghouses.com/dog-houses/wood-dog-houses/storemanagerschoiceextremeoutbacklogcabindoghouse.cfm


This dog house might be able to be converted to a hen house for a small flock.... We used an old dog house to make our hen house. We used a jigsaw to cut out windows. We used a drill with the blade that cuts out door knob holes (someone help- don't know the name, lol) for vents. We covered all the openings with hardware cloth. DH made Plexiglas slider window. He also used an old pallet to make the drop down door. We put roost inside, and a nest box. The chickens seem very happy. It isn't fancy, but it's secure.