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Has anyone had Angel Wing show up in their meat birds? Any idea what causes this in chickens or what to do about it? Should I remove these birds from my breeding population? I have 2 month old Freedom Ranger New Hampshires (dual purpose but optimized for meat) and White Rangers (CX derived...

UPDATE: Added Pictures. Pls help! I have a New Hampshire from Freedom Ranger Hatchery, optimized for meat (dual purpose), male, hatched March 10th. Been feeding 23% meatbird food until about a week or two ago when I switched to 20% all flock. Today I noticed he had a leg going out to the...

So I crossed my FBCM hen with my Whiting True Blue rooster, grabbed whatever eggs of hers I had sitting around in my kitchen, and put them in the incubator. Will they hatch??? I don't know... The hen lays every 2-3 days, so getting enough eggs to fill the incubator in 7 days isn't going to...

I processed an 8 month old Ginger Broiler rooster recently. I skinned him, and his carcass was too big to fit in a gallon ziplock bag, so I cut off the wings, legs, and neck, and rested the carcass in a fridge (laid out the wings/legs flat separate from the body of the bird) for 6-7 days. This...

So at 5:30am I sent my son out to do chicken chores, and he came back in a panic telling me there was a flood. No weather alerts came to my phone (I'm signed up for everything), no warnings ahead of time that there might be anything wrong, and I'm not in a flood zone, so this was totally...

Have any of you ever gotten a threadworm (capillaria) infection from your chickens? Or other worm infection? Google says they infect people, but I haven't found a good answer on whether the strain that infects chickens is able to infect people also. Trying to determine if I need to change my...

The vet did a fecal float and told me he found coccidiosis and strongyle. I'm confused exactly which worms are strongyle (he told me hookworms, but I don't think that's right?). He also told me to treat with Panacur and Corid in the water. I looked around on here, and think I've identified...

Has anyone raised the White Rangers from Freedom Ranger hatchery? How did they grow? What was your experience with these? In particular, I'm interested to know how they compare to Cornish Cross. From the website, it sounds like these have the growth rate and size of a cornish cross (more or...

I have an order coming next week from Murray McMurray containing cream crested legbars, and have heard that their parent stock contained lymphoid leukosis as of Oct 2021. I called Murray McMurray and they confirmed that none of their parent flocks of any breed are tested for this disease. If...

Someone ate two of the eggs my broody was sitting on. The others are caked with dirt and egg yolk. Can they still hatch? She's been sitting on eggs for 3 days now. Can/should I add more eggs? I want at least 1-2 chicks. So my broody hen, Sassy, is a starlight green egger. She's exactly...

Looking at breeding and selling eggs and chicks from WTB. What is the temperament of this breed? I have Prairie Bluebells, which are active and flighty, but generally will let me get a hand on them if I insist (read corner them up against the corner of the coop or sneak up on them while...

I'm thinking no, but can someone confirm? I'm contemplating breeding green and/or olive eggers from female WTB using BCM roo. I'm also looking into crossing WTB rooster over Marans (midnight majesty, cause that's what I have - I have both feather foot and non-feather-footed MMMs), and Black...

Anyone have recommendations for chicken processing gloves that are grippy, cut proof (or at least cut resistant, I have really sharp knives - just touching something is enough to cut), easy to wash/clean (I wash my hands multiple times when processing chickens), allow me to keep a good hold of...

I'm new to meat bird processing, and to processing of any animal. I've processed three Cornish Cross chickens, and have 20 to go. They are 6 weeks old, so now is the time. I have a number of questions and I was hoping you guys could take a look at my procedure and see if you have any thoughts...

I hatched 20 of my own eggs and came up with at least 14 cockerels. They are Production Red x Prairie Bluebell mainly, and are flighty, active, and a number of them are aggressive to each other and me. They are only 5 weeks old, and about the size of a songbird, not quite the size of a pigeon...

My cornish cross is 5 weeks old, and has a gash on her rear. She was injured 2-3 weeks ago, and originally it was 1/16" wide gash, 2" long, and had started healing before I noticed it - the cut had scabbed over and the skin around it was a normal pink. She is the runt, and I was using a round...

Are all these female? They are 4.5, nearly 5 weeks old from eggs I incubated myself. Production Red rooster crossed with Prairie Bluebell hens and Starlight Green Egger hens. There are one, maybe two females from the Starlight Green Egger Hen, the rest of the chicks are from the PBBs. They...

Questions - How feathered do they need to be to go outside? What temperature is too low, and what wind conditions are too much for 3 week old Cornish X (Cornish Rocks)? I have 23 Cornish Rocks / Cornish Cross. We've been getting weather in the 40s and 50s, then it will drop below freezing and...

I'm raising my first batch of 24 Cornish Cross and even though I did the research I was surprised by how food aggressive they are. Mine are coming up on 2 weeks old, so have one more week at least of garage raising then out to the open air covered run (10'x30'). I've been using a chick feeder...

Hi guys, I jury-rigged a still air incubator from a pressure canner and my reptile keeping supplies, and managed to successfully hatch chicks from a staggered hatch using only supplies I had around the house. It's kind of a crazy idea, but it worked, so I wrote an article and thought you all...