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It went better than expected! The first time in June, we did 24 Cornish Crosses and one Rhode Island rooster. It took us about one and a half hours to do all the birds. We were fortunate that I had a friend who knew how to gut out the birds and showed us how to do it. Biggest time saver -...

Thanks everyone. The responses I received eases my mind quite a bit. We have a crew of people coming to help so we will be sharing the birds with them as a reward. I am going to request that if they take any meat they should bring a cooler of ice to rest their birds before freezing. We have...

We have been raising chickens for nearly a year. We were very successful raising 14 laying hens and a rooster and decided to do meat birds this spring/summer. Processing day is in one week and we will be butchering 24 cornish crosses and the rooster. We have a plan for the processing...

Last November we discovered we had a FAMILY of possoms on our farm. Luckily, our dog can sniff them out. Because we were usually in the barn milking cows at the time and they were young, a pitch fork did the trick. We then buried them in our manure pile. We ended up killing five in two weeks...

In Central MN and are finally starting to experience the cold of the winters. We started raising chickens in early August and they are just starting to lay eggs. We made our own coop; and 8x8x10 insulated structure, four windows with a ventilation fan inserted in one and currently have...

Hi everyone! I am brand new to chickens and we will officially start our journey on August 5th when we receive our first batch of chicks! We plan on starting with 15 layers. We are getting three breeds, five of each: Barred Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red, and Isa-Brown. This spring, we plan...