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    New to hatching with "Backyard Mix" of Chicks

    How are your chicks? Do you still think they are the breeds you guessed? Was the plucky yellow chick a cockerell after all?
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    DIY recipe spray to replace veterycin spray?

    Thank you everyone! I really appreciate all of this. 😊
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    DIY recipe spray to replace veterycin spray?

    I'm way out in the country with three small toddlers, and my husband is gone on a business trip. I have a wounded chicken. I've washed her and salt water and applied triple antibiotic ointment to her wound, but I want something to spray on it regularly. She's away from the others in her own...
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    Large Bloody 4 inch gash in back of 1 yr old Wyandotte Hen

    Thank you!! What is "first aid"? Do you mean triple antibiotic ointment?
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    Large Bloody 4 inch gash in back of 1 yr old Wyandotte Hen

    Large Bloody 4 inch gash in back of 1 yr old Wyandotte Hen. I was wondering if it was the roosters over mating her (we have 4 roosters to 8 hens, will be culling roosters soon), but my husband says it looks like a wild animal attack. It's been gusty here, we have a lot of hawks. Our chickens...
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    Rooster vs Cockerel libido?

    Thank you for all the input this is super helpful
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    Rooster vs Cockerel libido?

    We're having issues with over mating of our hens and are deciding which roosters to eat. Is it true that roosters are more mating crazy between 6 and 11 months then after 12 months? We have a 11 month old rooster (maybe 9 months if the lady I bought him from was confused) who is otherwise a...
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    Tractor Supply Mandatory Chicken registry?

    When I went to buy my chicks from tractor supply, the lady at the counter insisted that I had to fill out all my personal information in a chicken registry, including my phone number, email and home address. She made it sound like this was a legal requirement. Something about having to keep...
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    Americana Tractor Supply?

    Yes the sign at Tractor Supply said they were part legbar. It's a relief to know they might all be female. Thanks so much!
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    Americana Tractor Supply?

    I picked up eight sexed female chicks from Tractor supply that were marked "Americana" with Legbar parentage. I'm trying to find more on this crossbreed, but all I keep finding is stuff on the true breed Ameraucana. At the moment I just want to make sure that I actually do have female chicks...
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    Processed first bird, seemingly successfully…follow-up questions, one time-sensitive

    Where do you get your cervical dislocator? I would like to try this.
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    Can you freeze a whole chicken and process it later?

    Can you freeze a whole headless chicken and process it later? We already drained the blood and cut off the head, scalded it and plucked off the feathers. So ... Can we just stick it in a gallon Ziploc bag and freeze it... And just thaw it out later and then scrape out all the guts and chop it...
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    Coq au vin? Tips for cooking year old roosters

    I've only ever cooked baby 8-week Cornish cross from the store before. I've been told that real grown chickens are a whole another story, and these were tough free range roosters that lived a full life.... Someone said that once upon a time Coq au Vin was a recipe designed for tough old...
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    How long does it take to pluck a rooster by hand?

    Alas, I eat chicken for the skin. . .
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    Fertilization with two roosters

    We raised five roosters together, they're a little set of brood brothers. Initially we thought they were hens, and when we found out they weren't we didn't have the heart to kill them. They're 8 months old now or thereabouts. They're not rivals at all, and they'll Chase around one week little...
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