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    When did your golden comets start to lay?

    A note for you, @Chickenpoonumber2 , you have pullet eggs. Your golden comet's egg will increase in size over the next few months. After about 3 months of laying, the size and shape are pretty much what she will continue to give you until she molts. So, they are baby eggs now, but give her a...
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    Hi my name is Monique, in September my moms neighbor had a chicken and 4 babys in his front yard he did not want them. So she took them in my brother

    Is this 3 pictures of one chicken? They do indeed look male. They are gorgeous! Where in the world are you located? This is an international forum.
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    Comment by 'FunClucks' in article 'How To Process A Chicken At Home'

    If you can get the bird into the oven before rigor mortis starts, I've heard that you can cook it without it being like rubber. This is generally 30 minutes or less. Once rigor mortis starts, you have to just wait until it is over (roughly 3 days or more in my experience) - bird should stay in...
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    Chamber vs Vacuum Sealer

    Shrink wrap bags are like a plastic bag in the shape of your chicken. Same as the commercial whole chickens are sold in. Not as durable as vacuum bags (those can be thicker and tossed around in the freezer more with less care for the plastic getting poked), so handle gently and don't have poky...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    This is really helpful, thank you! I think I need to find similar buckets, or use smaller stumps. Also, I love your coop!!! It's darling! What a nice layout for everything!
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    Frost bite?

    At 8-9 months, only slightly darker than shown in the picture, I still think it may be normal variation. Now, if it doesn't go away, or gets really dark, like almost black purple, then there's issues. But there's still really not much you can do about it but love her and keep her life free...
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    Dead rooster

    So glad to hear! Crossing fingers for you!!!
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    Frost bite?

    I agree with Sourland. It looks like you have some type of production red egger. How old is she? This amount of darker redness I do not find concerning, it can come and go normally as seasons change, hormones change, the weather changes, etc. She looks to be in perfectly good health, from...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Do you have pictures? I'm having trouble visualizing this, and it sounds really helpful. Because that's my trouble right now - they get up on the tree stumps and try to perch there and poop all over them. They're at least 12" in diameter or more.
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Good ideas! I'm gonna have to ponder on these. Definitely want to do "steps", it's the mechanics that I haven't been able to decide on.
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    What age is a good age for processing excess heritage cockerels?

    Since you're dealing with neighbors and no-rooster laws, as soon as they crow, they may need to go. I raised 21 babies, 12 of which were cockerels. By 3 months 5-6 of them were crowing, but they can start as soon as a few weeks old, it depends on the breed and individual birds. I ended up...
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    My experience killing and cooking young heritage breed cockerels

    What kind of broth did you use? How often did you put the liquid on the meat when brazing it? Sounds tasty good!
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    My experience killing and cooking young heritage breed cockerels

    I definitely want your recipe! I have trouble finding good recipes for birds on the older and tougher side, and I'd like to do something other than pressure cook them. Looks divine!!! Now I'm hungry... Sorry you had to process your cockerel. I had one that I'd had such high hopes for, we...
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    Capons

    They definitely feel it. One of the reasons I haven't moved forward with actually performing this myself. Doing it without anesthesia is actually safer for the bird - they have better survivability without anesthesia (due to difficulties in getting the dose correct and in administering it...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Trying to fit an isolation cage under there. Might have to just block off the top of that isolation cage (so they don't poop on it or perch on it at night) and then lower the sand box. Gives less walking around room to the hens, but maybe I'll think of something else that will make up for it.
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