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    🐥 Orange Dot Mystery 🐥 (white leghorns)

    Man I wish I'd known this sooner! I've been given the run around at TSC a few times with them not wanting to tell me the hatchery. Next time I won't take no for an answer!
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Processed weight, or carcass weight for me includes the entire carcass minus wing tips, minus lowest part of legs (the scaled portion of legs with the feet), and minus the head of the bird. Also doesn't include skin or internal organs. Weight of bones is included in my carcass weight, the...
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    Is this Fatty Liver Disease? (With autopsy/processed chicken pictures)

    I think the cut in the liver just fractured that way, after I pulled it out of the body cavity. It was fine prior to that - if you look it seems to have separated at a "seam" of some type. I don't think I got it with the knife, but am not 100% on that. It was smooth, firm, and slightly...
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    Thanks!
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    In other news, the NH and chocolate egger babies are out in the covered run now, or in the isolation cage next to the big hens. The NH are super cute and very awkward when they run. I'll work on getting some pictures.
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    Meat Bird Comparison: Freedom Ranger Hatchery White Ranger, FR New Hampshire, Cornish Rock Cross, and Ginger Broilers

    One of my 2 year old NH hens passed away this morning from a heart attack. Hatch date March 11, 2024. I happened to be out at the coop filling the feeders before the sun was up, and saw her pass. I assume it was a heart attack. Not sure of underlying cause. She was having circulation issues...
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    Is this Fatty Liver Disease? (With autopsy/processed chicken pictures)

    TLDR: Is this fatty liver disease? Pictures below/attached. Enlarged heart and kidneys, lots of fat along the intestines and 3x the expected amount of fat in her fat pad on her abdomen. Had unshelled eggs in her ovaries, but I haven't seen her lay an egg since at least December. I feed 20%...
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    Large number broiler -brooder help needed

    Pictures? That can help us picture what you're describing. The only non-electrical ideas I know of are using feather dusters so they can huddle under it, but that might be hard for 70 chicks. 15-20 chick clusters can keep each other warm, at least for shipping. As long as you have areas in...
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    all male review

    Also, slaughter is the same effort, male or female. Just watch out for the spurs on the males. Any bird may struggle, so be prepared for that. A good breed will be relatively tame to handle, either sex, and how you raise and interact with them helps also. Females generally have less meat on...
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    all male review

    So you're purchasing and incubating meat bird eggs, or a dual purpose breed and using them as meat birds. What breed are you planning to get? That does influence the answer some, as far as size of birds goes. By 5-6 weeks, for most breeds, it will be obvious if you have males or females based...
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    Does this work?

    Red sexlinks (red hen, white rooster chick down) are IMO easiest to sex. There are sexlink chicks that are barred or are black and have a white head dot for the roos - in my experience those have more incidences of oops roosters - the markings are not always obvious and the hatchery doesn't...
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    Does this work?

    You can breed a flock of birds in a certain way that the males feather out one way, and the females feather out another way (one is fast, one is slow, I forget which). But in order to get there, you have to first remove from your breeding population all the males and females with the wrong type...
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    Traumatized Chicken after dog attacked another. Panting, lethargic

    Consider a product called Dig Defense (found at the hardware store) to deter/prevent large digging predators. Or instead, consider using an apron outside your fence, in the area where the dogs are at, right at the bottom of the fence. So, secure cattle panels segments or hardware cloth to the...
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    Traumatized Chicken after dog attacked another. Panting, lethargic

    Oh no! Sounds like she had internal injuries - it's not something you can treat at home, and most vets won't do it either. There really wasn't anything you could do. At least you made her last days peaceful. I'm so sorry you lost her. Sending you supportive thoughts. If/when you feel up to...
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    Traumatized Chicken after dog attacked another. Panting, lethargic

    What is your weather like where you are? I would not do a heat lamp - she's acclimated to your outdoor temps and that might over heat her. Keeping her in a dry, draft free area, like an unheated garage or shed, and giving her appealing food (regular feed, possibly mixed with raw egg or yogurt...
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