The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

I know nothing about turkeys, but if I had a chicken looking troubled with yolky poop, I would suspect egg yolk peritonitis, where yolks go into the internal cavity rather than out the reproductive system. The hen I had who had this problem had a squishy belly from the gut infection. I know that folks usually don't eat the meat from chickens with EYP...
That's cal. standards.
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If someone gut--shoots a wild turkey, they, at the very least, skin back the breasts and salvage them...some will take the legs. The meat will not be served rare.

Just too much waste in the face of killing ourselves with cleanliness. A few germs and bacteria are good for humans.

I was raised on a farm, in fact right here on this farm we now own and from the time I was very young, I got a good hot bath every night but throughout the day, I was in every kind of mess that can be on a farm. I never had tubes in my ears no any allergies except the Oak, Sumac, Ivy...Likely ate at least a pound of animal dung until I was walking well and getting along pretty well all together.

Hot-house kids (and adults) create their own health problems by carrying a bottle of bleach or other bug killer...which leaves them open to the ravages of just a bit of chicken or turkey poo.

That's it...no more on that stump.
 
That's cal. standards. :gig   If someone gut--shoots a wild turkey, they, at the very least, skin back the breasts and salvage them...some will take the legs.  The meat will not be served rare.

Just too much waste in the face of killing ourselves with cleanliness.  A few germs and bacteria are good for humans.  

I was raised on a farm, in fact right here on this farm we now own and from the time I was very young, I got a good hot bath every night but throughout the day, I was in every kind of mess that can be on a farm.  I never had tubes in my ears no any allergies except the Oak, Sumac, Ivy...Likely ate at least a pound of animal dung until I was walking well and getting along pretty well all together.

Hot-house kids (and adults) create their own health problems by carrying a bottle of bleach or other bug killer...which leaves them open to the ravages of just a bit of chicken or turkey poo.

That's it...no more on that stump.


OK, I'd had an impression that it was because the disorder affected the quality of the meat, less so an issue of bacteria...good to know!
 
Well, later that day, the hen looked better and ate a little scratch. This morning she ate breakfast and supervised the water refill. I might have jumped the gun, although she certainly wasn't feeling good. I still wonder if that snake could have bit her. It was non venomous, but I'd be a bit (lot) freaked out if I got snake bit.

I was given some old layers that had egg yolk peritonitis, that wasn't her problem. I'm not too germaphobic, but I tossed those carcasses. All that meat marinating in that yellow gunk was more than I was ready to take on.
 
That's cal. standards. :gig   If someone gut--shoots a wild turkey, they, at the very least, skin back the breasts and salvage them...some will take the legs.  The meat will not be served rare.

Just too much waste in the face of killing ourselves with cleanliness.  A few germs and bacteria are good for humans.  

I was raised on a farm, in fact right here on this farm we now own and from the time I was very young, I got a good hot bath every night but throughout the day, I was in every kind of mess that can be on a farm.  I never had tubes in my ears no any allergies except the Oak, Sumac, Ivy...Likely ate at least a pound of animal dung until I was walking well and getting along pretty well all together.

Hot-house kids (and adults) create their own health problems by carrying a bottle of bleach or other bug killer...which leaves them open to the ravages of just a bit of chicken or turkey poo.

That's it...no more on that stump.


Just had to say I agree! We grew up playing in the dirt, outside. We didn't have antibacterial soap & hand sanitizer. We were rarely sick, even to this day & we're both still healthy, trim and active in our 60's. Our sugar intake was sensibly monitored & we ate fruits & vegetables as well as meat, rice, beans and pasta. We ate fish and other seafoods. Very little of our foods were "prepared" before coming into our home, except for some frozen vegetables through the off seasons and dry pasta.

Now, with all the advances in medicine and all the high dollar "research" telling us we need to be "germ free" and trying to make us think we need to be germophobes or we will surely die of some horrible illness. Now, look at the younger people who have adopted this new way of thinking and behaving. Why do they seem to get every little bug that goes by within a mile of them? Why has Diabetes become rampant? Why does everyone you meet seem to have allergy problems? I could go on but you already understand :celebrate
 
Just had to say I agree! We grew up playing in the dirt, outside. We didn't have antibacterial soap & hand sanitizer. We were rarely sick, even to this day & we're both still healthy, trim and active in our 60's. Our sugar intake was sensibly monitored & we ate fruits & vegetables as well as meat, rice, beans and pasta. We ate fish and other seafoods. Very little of our foods were "prepared" before coming into our home, except for some frozen vegetables through the off seasons and dry pasta.

Now, with all the advances in medicine and all the high dollar "research" telling us we need to be "germ free" and trying to make us think we need to be germophobes or we will surely die of some horrible illness. Now, look at the younger people who have adopted this new way of thinking and behaving. Why do they seem to get every little bug that goes by within a mile of them? Why has Diabetes become rampant? Why does everyone you meet seem to have allergy problems? I could go on but you already understand :celebrate


Thankfully medical researchers are finally beginning to understand a little about the benefits of our naturally germ-filled worlds...this is a great write-up:
 
Thanks everyone.

My oldest kiddos are now 13 weeks. They will do okay with the older birds as they know how to keep out of their way so that part is good.

It's too bad I'm away at work or I might feel a little better about letting them run free at an earlier age. Maybe I'll have to start letting them out in the afternoons when I get home to "break them in".

Mine are 2 1/2 months old now, Mama goes to bed with the flock at night, but wants to be with her babies during the day. One of my 2 year old roosters likes to be with them too. I have them in a separate pen for now, want them a little bigger before I cut them loose with the rest of the flock.
Sometimes my rooster will come into the pen as I am getting them out of their transport in the morning, they sleep in a covered large fish pond container on our deck at night. Today when my youngest went to get them ready for bed, we found No Name (our rooster) in there with them. The only way he could get in there, was to hop on the transport container, and fly over the rest of the fence. Two of the chicks look to be roosters, tall, thick legs, big feet, they are not aggressive towards each other or toward No Name....yet. My two youngest roosters (the 2 year olds) are at the bottom of the pecking order, they roam on the outskirts of the flock. If Hank is not watching, No Name will try to "Love" on one of the ladies, as soon as Hank hears them screeching, he comes a runnin, and chases No Name away. No Name knows better than to challenge Hank (who is No Name's Daddy). Hank is twice the size of No Name, and has at least 3" spurs.
 

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