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I made the biggest mistake in raising meat birds
We made one of the biggest mistakes I can think of in raising meat birds. We named one of them. Her name is Purple Bird. I think you can probably pick her out of the flock. See, a few days ago, she got...
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Chicken Experiment Update (because I can’t mentally handle anything else just...
An update on our chicken experiment. The one where we’re comparing a selectively bred Cornish Cross with the dual purpose Plymouth Rock from chick to table. Here they are on their third day with us:...
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Polish Crested: Chickens going punk
Surfing around the internet, I started showing my children some of the different breeds of chickens and talking about how the breeds developed and what they were used for. We looked at layers; we...
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On slaughtering our first chickens
Well, we finally did it. We slaughtered four of our five Cornish Crosses in the front yard under a crab apple tree. Yes, along with the bathtub and refrigerator sitting on the porch, we make great...
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On processing our chickens
Well, I left you with four upside down chickens bleeding out under a crab apple tree. Once that was done, the rest was pretty easy. Not that I had any idea what I was doing and there were definitely...
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Free chicken treats, or Organic June bug control
I left the children’s water table under a porch light the other night and woke to find this. I thought what any chicken owner would think. My chickens were delighted. So the next night I made sure the...
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Helping your chickens survive the summer heat
Summer has made its arrival here in Nebraska with the heat index bringing us into triple digits. We’ve lost one broiler chick and the rest of our flock hangs out in the shade, wings lifted away from...
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Jake kills a chicken
I lock up the barn at the end of a long day. I’m ready for it to be over. I was ready for it to be over when I woke up. And the whole day was beset with challenge after challenge after challenge,...
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A barnyard adoption story
Mama was an australorp . . . . . . who hooked up with a red laced blue Wyandotte. It was nothing serious. She knew that. After all, he had at least fifteen other hens that she knew about. It wasn’t...
View ArticleHow we do the state fair
Mouse has been waiting for three years to show her poultry at the state fair and she is finally here, waiting in line to be called for Showmanship. That’s when I learn that after Showmanship, the...
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