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My "extra" Bresse rooster is the king of the main flock so I hatched out some of the brown eggs- the only brown egg layers I have are a heavy-bodied strain of Rhode Island Reds. The first batch of 18 chicks turned out to be 9 pullets and 9 cockerels. The cockerels got culled last weekend at 18...

I processed a hatchery grade black orpington chicken which i got as a grown bird three years ago. She hadn't laid an egg in 8 months so she ended up in with the young rooster culls last weekend. I intended her as a stew bird but my wife misunderstood my intending and ended up crockpotting her...

I've been processing chickens for four or five years using a cheap Uncle Henry's gutting knife. It's mild steel and I can put a really nice edge on it but it dulls very quickly. On top of that it doesn't feel good in my hand, having a handle that feels clunky and square, and it gets fairly slick...

One of our free ranged Bourbon Red hens disappeared three days ago and I assumed one of our local hawks got her even though she's a bit bigger than the hawks. Luna aka Murder Dog started sniffing in a broad circle around a large patch of tall grass and expressing keen interest in something in...

This one is broody; her sister's sideburns are WAY bigger.

I have several 7-month old Red Bourbon turkeys including one tom and also a half dozen BBW hens the same age who just started laying in early October. They're slated for processing this next weekend or maybe next if the weather cooperates. We're considering an attempt to incubate a dozen or so...

I have three young Red Bourbon turkeys which refuse to go into the tractor shed at the end of the day even though they have several roosts of varying heights that were set up specifically for them. Every evening, I have to either shoo them into the shed (20' x 30' with a 14' roof, open ended on...

Fowl pox is here. Oddly, the Ameraucana and Ameraucana mixes aren't symptomatic and the Rhode Island Reds have minor blemishes but my American Bresse are ugly with it. It seems to be the dry variety; no lesions in their mouths. The turkeys seem to be completely free of symptoms. Everyone is...

So I went outside to get the little junkwagon set up for my wife to take to town and pick up some stuff... and stepped on a snake. I was wearing shorts and a pair of Mocs (Dollar General generic Croc rip-offs but they're only$6 instead of $35 so they'll do) and the damned thing got me on the...

You know, the one where you subtract the ones with names, meat birds, birds that are for sale/would sell if asked, etc.? I've scrolled through a million threads for the last two hours with no luck! Help!

Poor lonely Luna aka Murder Dog. she saw me putting on boots and thought we were going out dancing or something. I told her, no; no dogs allowed at church. She didn't believe me.

This American Bresse rooster had a rough incubation (temp calibration was off and experienced both temps too high and too low for almost a week) and a complicated hatch due to his deformity. His pelvic cradle is splayed and tilted so his leg joints are misdirected, and it makes him waddle like a...

I have this cheap mud bike I use to zoom around the property and, after fetching the mail, I rode it up to the pens to feed the flocks. I came out of the brooder shed to find one of my 9-wk old poults waiting for a ride. That is Luna aka Murder Dog in the background. She is VERY well behaved...

I picked up 22 Bourbon Red turkey eggs from a contact up in the Texas Panhandle; they're alleged to be Bourbon Reds but one of the last batch I got from him grew out looking like a Blue Slate. The Nurture Right 360 is spun up to temp and we're off to the races!

Goofy girl grew up with my Bresse hatchlings from day 1 but hasn't been able to fit into their coop since she was 3 months old. This is "her" roost.

We got 12 CX meat chicks and four BBW poults last Thursday; today, we woke up to two dead and three others standing around with closed eyes. They showed no interest in food, which is very unusual. I came home tonight to another dead chick and the rest with eyes shut. I thought at first they were...

Someone like me, for instance. I got home after driving a tractor trailer a million miles and found that the postman had delivered my car's the rod ends. I grabbed a beer, jacked up the car and replaced the tie rod ends. Then I took some string and a couple of jackstands and did a four-wheel...

Ugh. I'm 350 miles from home, sleeping in my tractor trailer, started feeling rough yesterday. Woke up this morning with a cough, sore throat, runny nose and itchy eyes. No fever, so at least there's that. Hungry for carbs, too. That is all. Just looking for some sympathy.

I have a half dozen month-old RIRs and I just went outside to make sure everything was buttoned up for the expected rain coming in tonight and heard a commotion in the little's tractor. Four of the six RIRs were just going to town in the feeder, gobbling food and carrying on like it was the...