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[EmSteele]

If you PM me your instagram username I will take screenshots and upload for you.

very cool! Not worried about privacy, have posted it here before! @moleysteele. Thanks so much!

 

[Quinstar]

very cool! Not worried about privacy, have posted it here before! @moleysteele. Thanks so much!

Hope these are the right ones...

@EmSteele's chicks in question...





The bottom one looks like my Black Australorp.

 

[EmSteele]

Hope these are the right ones... @EmSteele's chicks in question... The bottom one looks like my Black Australorp.

That's a new guy! He was a pan fry save. The others are some of my first pics! Both are black with some red/gold. One barely has the extra color. Isn't this one a pretty boy though!?!

 

[Quinstar]

Ok, we'll try again.... I just grabbed every black chicken I saw.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

he looks like a RIR. Would you want another one? I have a production RIR I need gone. If not, is there anyone who wants a RIR rooster?

Lastly if no one wants him, is there anyone who wants to come and butcher him? I would pay to see how to properly butcher a chicken. I'm thinking I can't keep this roo until Johnny's picnic. Speaking of the picnic is there a date yet?

Thanks for the offer, but it's 100 miles round trip to your house and I didn't really want a RIR. Just took it from my granddaughter because she was afraid of it. He was very aggressive. That's why he wasn't put in the chicken yard or house. He would have killed all the younger ones.

Also I have several young roosters that will be joining freezer camp in a couple of months.

Butchering chickens is not hard to do. A bit gruesome for people who haven't done it and plucking the feathers can be tedious, particularly if the scalding water is not hot enough. If you have ever cut up a whole chicken from the store, you have a head start.

Here's a youtube instruction video.

We always had a chopping block and a hatchet, but for the first-timer occasionally doing this, a good sharp butcher knife is more likely to work well. Hatchets can be inaccurate.

Note that in addition to feathers, chickens also have hairs on their bodies. Use a propane torch to burn them off. You can use your gas stove if you don't mind your house smelling like burnt hair for a few hours.

John

 

[EmSteele]

The big black looked exactly like the little black as a chick! That is our (fingers crossed) hen and Estes says it's a Black marans. Think it's right? The black baby with gold was also completely black but now has gold/red all over neck, chest, and some in wings. Estes says he's a welsummer. Thanks so much for the help Quinstar!!!!

 

[EmSteele]

If anyone wants to check my chickens out, they are on Instagram @moleysteele. You can CLEARLY tell my favorite, the mystery roo, Lemon-pepper! Let me know what you think!

 

[pbirdhaven]

Well, a third baby now has its eyes closed. The first two have died, and this one isn't looking good. No idea what this is--haven't seen it before.

Pip, possibly your non-frizzle chick could carry the frizzle gene; it's recessive if I remember right, so could be overpowered by a dominant. Haven't worked much with frizzles for a few years, so my memory could be in a senior lapse.

Danand, a couple of things to check with your millies: mites can overcome youngsters pretty quickly, and they're so darn small that they're often hard to detect. I lost a dark blue silkie pullet a couple of weeks ago; between the dark skin and feathers I couldn't see them, but when I picked up the body they swarmed up my arm looking for live dinner. Also, check the poop--if you find loose stools or poop matted around the vent, it could be cocci. If I find a young one lethargic and can't find anything else wrong, I start that one and its brooder mates on Corid, whether they need it or not just in case. It won't hurt them.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

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Thanks for the link. I know my DH could take care of the kill. I have defeathered a bird before, one that a hawk killed. while not fun it was doable. It was the removing of the guts that got me, I just could not do it. I had the knife ready but the idea of putting my hand inside the bird well it unnerved me on that day.
What would you recommend for the hairs other than a propane torch or gas stove. Should I just skin the bird instead? If so do I do that after the gutting?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Rest in Peace ----- Rooster Cogburn 2012 - 6/4/2013



Please remove your hats and bow your heads for a moment of silence in remembrance of Rooster Cogburn. He was a valiant and intrepid member of the neighborhood, loved and respected by (almost) all.

He met his demise by being viciously attacked and murdered by a pack of coyotes during the night while he slept on his usual roost in the barn. When his owner went out to the barn and found red feathers scattered around near Cogburn's roost he then took the ATV out into the field and found a bunch more feathers and one foot.

D*mn! He was an ornery old cuss, but I liked him. Shirley, 4 houses down will be heart-broken. She had adopted him, fed him so much that he never ate anything here.

I bought 2 more live traps and have set them up in the barn with a chunk of chicken meat under the trip pads. If I catch some, I'll let you know. They will be given a fair and impartial trial before being found guilty and sentenced to death. I intend to give them pistols with one bullet and let them do the honorable thing, the murdering b*stards.

John

That is sad. It seems like there are more and more people having their chickens attached and killed. It is unacceptable and heartbreaking especially if you were attached to what they got. I hope you catch them.