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I butchered 40 on Saturday. It went well, especially the borrowed Featherman picker. It was the gasoline powered model, worked great with 2, 3, or 4 birds at a time. The picker left a neat pile of wet feathers that were easy to clean up. My neighbor's 15 year old showed me a better way to...

My neighbor butchers chickens. He is about an hour and a half north of Pittsburgh, in Ringgold township, Jefferson County. This is near Punxsutawney, Brookville, Dayton, and Smicksburg. There is plenty to do in the area besides chickens. David also has an Amish food store you can peruse...

I'm building nipple waterers for my pasture pens. I have nipples in the bottom of a bucket in the brooder, and my layer chicks have figured it out. for the pasture pens, I have pvc pipe and 1/2" vinyl hose and barbed fittings. My problem is the connection from the bucket to the vinyl hose...

What are you paying for feed? I am getting 500 lbs this week, was told $20-22 per hundred pounds. Seems high, but that was the only mill I could talk into grinding broiler feed. Better than buying prepacked 50's. Anybody in Western PA have a favorite mill? Armstrong, Westmoreland, Butler...

We're preparing significantly increase our production next year, from 25 birds to 3-400. Most of the daily care will be by my wife and kids, who will be living at our farm full time once school gets out. I'm planning and building prototypes now. How are you watering your pasture penned...

I have 10 one year old Rhode Island Red hens and a rooster. I have had them for 6 weeks. After a few weeks of few or no eggs, I now get 4-6 a day. I have a new flock of 2 month olds in a pasture pen, to be moved into the coop this fall. I plan to give a friend some of the old hens, some...

The threads about selling to asian consumers has me thinking about the logistics of selling live birds, possibly at a farmer's market. A cage would be best to show off your birds, but to expensive to throw in with the bird. A cardboard box would be cheap, but you can't see the bird. You could...

I'm feeding the 27 birds in my tractor a commercial feed, and its going fine. I would like to supplement their feed with something else. So far, they don't eat grass, clover, dandelion greens, or radish greens. They did eat a worm, but their hard to come by in quantity, besides, the soil...

I moved my 3 week old + Cornish crosses outside Friday, but I still have them free feeding. I know its time for 12 on 12 off, but we had a frost last night, and will again tonight. Does eating help chickens keep warm? If it does, I'll wait another day to pull their feed. If not, they fast...

Tractor Supply was out of their 20% chick starter, so I got some from the Agway. I asked for chick starter, but now I see I bought game bird feed. Its 28% protein, with Lasalocid, 113g/ton. I fed them this feed today. Should I toss the bag I opened? Is lasalocid going to cause trouble in my...