Poultry (General) Threads

• What would be a fair price to charge to brood someone else's chicks?
• poultry processing - odd skin layer??
• I need some advice on using correct wire for chicken coupe
• Silkie rooster and hen taking turns setting nest
• raising meat birds organically
• Turn-X Incubator help
• How tall fence needed to keep chickens OUT??
• Yet Another Hen/Rooster Question
• looking for baby geese
• started turkey poults for sale in southeastern ohio
• keeping chickens in their coop/ flying over fence
• Can a rooster be "de-crowed"?
• Rooster Pestering the Hens Way Too Much
• Avian Flu Update
• Dp RIRs often go broody?
• Is anyone interested in giving a good home to some ducks, chickens and geese?
• White Peafowl
• Splash silkie
• One more question about chickens....
• Chicken Auctions in Colorado?? (Also another question; please read))
• what is the biggest breed of chicken?
• Chicken with dirty bottom
• Feeding chickens food scraps
• Anyone Raise Black Meat Chickens?
• Sold my chickens
• Chickens and Choclate
• Introducing male chicken to female chicken
• Diy kelp for chickens?
• do chickens like marigolds?
• Looking for ducks/geese in NE OKLA
• the final results of my free chickens
• Can cockerels be castrated?
• Cute Chick Story (Chickens that is!)
• the saps a risin' (in the barnyard)
• A complete online guide to butchering Chickens????
• does mcmurray hatchery immunize?
• Poultry quarantine for Virginia and N.Carolina
• Dorkings
• chicks,geese & ducks...brooding together
• different breeds in same henhouse??
• free chickens!
• Me crying, DH killing,me gutting first homekill roos,boo hoo
• Poultry Processing in Maine
• (Mobile) processing unit for poultry
• Kosher king cockerels
• Will my hen stay broody if I remove her from her nest?
• Old English Bantam Hens?
• Culling Roosters
• Ordered too many chicks, want to sell a few @ $2 ea - East TX
• Free Chickens to good home
• Homing Pigeons
• info needed on storing eggs for incubation
• Jersy Giants brooding
• a brooder for a silkie to sit on her eggs and chicks
• Can chickens be interbred?
• Genetics question - results of crossing 2 breeds
• Old Wives Tale
• when are the livestock swap meets in wisconsin
• New To Chickens
• Chicken Tractor Plans
• A quick question on incubators
• Barred rocks for sale in Arkansas, how much are they worth?
• What kind of roosters do we have?
• using pyrethrum for lice
• Chickens predicting rain rumor
• Poultry feed grinding?
• Chicken question
• Duck meat
• Looking for information on chicken breed
• Looking for chickens
• put purchased chicks under hen
• Is there anyway to determine the age of a hen?
• are chickens always hungry
• Should I wash my eggs before giving them to friends... (poultry general)
• Dog food to supplement laying mash?
• skinning poultry search not helpful
• Ducks and Chickens
• Help me win bet with father-in-law....
• chicken eating her eggs
• Silver Laced Wyandotts
• rooster and hens loosing all back feathers!
• Child attacking rooster gets killed off tomorrow (more enclosed)
• Sexing Chicken Questions?
• What should I do about rooster attacking my small child (poultry general)
• keeping roosters with hens
• What to do with roosters
• Old English Game Chickens
• Idea on schoolbus chicken coop floor
• Free Americauna Pullets in NE CT
• what could have got both my roosters??
• SHOWING CHICKENS AT FAIRS(NEED HELP )
• Chicken eggs got cold for a while, will it affect my hatch?
• Had to move setting hen will she get back on her egss?
• Can you eat an egg if it has a slight crack in it (poultry general)
• Saw dust in nest boxes
• We finally got our first egg (poultry general)
• Rigamortis in Chickens Help!!!
• Help! severe spring fever! Chicken hatching time!
• Link to Poultry,non professional genetics
• how to preserve rooster cape?
• Sick Chicken??!!!
• Turduckens (Poultry - General)
• Memory Retention (Poultry - General)
• Do you have chickens for sale in (East-Central) Tennessee?
• poultry connection
• Looking for Buff Orpingtons in Nova Scotia
• Pastured Poultry - Pasture
• Plucking ducks and chickens-best way?
• How soon can I turn of light on my leghorns
• will chickens eat fireants?
• chicken question (broody hens)
• Keeping pigeons.
• Wanted to Buy..."Raising Poultry the Modern Way."
• Lone chicken NEED info
• poultry auction
• Did my rooster have a stroke?
• Some Stupid Free Range Chicken Questions
• Feeding Sprouted Grains to Poultry
• Dry Plucking Poultry (Poultry - General)
• Poultry auction (a plug for www.eggbay.com)
• another baby step... chickens
• How many roosters can I keep
• My hen has laid 14 eggs. When will she set?
• Whiteing chicken
• sexlink chickens
• Long-tailed Phoenix Chicken
• NEST BOXES (need help ) (Poultry/Housing & Equipment)
• mixing breeds of poultry
• Grit...how big??
• Rooster to Capon ?
• Keeping Roosters
• Chickens and Peacocks?
• Best Breeding/setting Turkeys, Ducks and Geese?
• Dunlap Hatchery (Good Place for Mixed Species Lots)
• Best chickens to start with?
• Mille fleur pair for sale (Poultry - General)
• mangels for chickens
• Dual purpose chickens and turkeys, what is the best set up?
• SHOULDN'T THEY BE LAYING BY NOW? (Turkeys & Guineas)
• Buff Orpingtons for meat
• more re: first chicken butchering
• Need Buff Orp Rooster
• Looking forBarnevelders, Welsummers, or Marans chickens
• Free Roosters in Kitsap Co, WA ! !
• butchered first chicken!
• chickens won't go out
• Does it ever get easier to butcher? (Poultry - General)
• Poultry and egg prices
• Definition of "Free Range" Poultry
• Animal rights and Unite Poultry Concern!!!
• What animal right advocates think about the Sept. 11 victims
• Buff Orps and Black Australorps--crossed?(poultry)
• Bought some bantam pullets--when might they start laying?
• Good chicken breeds--suggestions wanted
• Costs of Raising Meat Chickens
• web site for poultry
• Red Top Chick Farm
• how to sell laying pullets?
• Did anyone just watch the PBS show (History of
• Any raising squab-need breeder sources
• history of chicken on pbs
• best type of laying boxes
• What do you do for grit for your chickens in winter?
• Why Do Roosters Crow?
• Do chickens urinate?
• Red Top Chick Farms
• barnyard assortment from murray mcmurray (Turkeys/Geese)
• murray mcmurray assorted bargain (Chickens)
• What's your favorite poultry magazine?
• Brooder for trade, new in box
• mille fleur chicken trio for sale
• Should Chickens eat popcorn?
• Pullets for sale in Texas?
• How do I use a hygrometer?
• Butchered first chicken-fluid in body cavity OK?
• Radio in Chicken coop?
• Chickens and cold weather
• Can chickens scratch for laying mash?
• What do you feed laying hens?
• laying hens (how long to start laying?)
• keeping chickens out of dog food
• which chickens are best for meat
• Poultry bedding
• Saratoga Co. NY friend needs new home for birds (chickens) (free)
• Broiler chickens
• Help me decide - Chickens, Ducks, Geese, and/or Pea Fowl (So. Indiana)
• female hen crowing!
• Need plans for building a rabbit hutch (for chickens) and a few other answers
• sexing silkie chickens (9 wks old)
• Mottled houdans
• Does anybody know what would cause a rooster to lose his voice?
• Where is the thread on poultry hatcheries? (poultry - general)
• Cornish Rock vs. Cornish Game
• new to chickens
• Organic Laying Mash?????
• Potential Article on Misc. Poultry Quesitons
• I got chickens-yeah! questions too:)
• agressive rooster
• Chicken doesn't "cock a doodle do"
• breeding bugs (or worms for chicken feed)
• Funny chicken related story...
• when my hen will start to lay again
• bwilliams... question about using crock pot to keep poultry water from freezing
• Too cold for bantam?
• CHICKEN Feed Dillema HELP !!!
• Millet for chickens?
• Question: Feeding chickens through tough times..disasters..
• Does chicken feed from my farm feed store have growth hormones?
• Poultry Fertility Question
• meat chickens
• skinning chicken tip
• My first attempt at plucking.... (poultry- general)
• Need soy-free laying mash recipe
• chicken turning white?
• Question about Roosters and chickens
• Is this normal chicken behavior?
• Wanted: Heavy / "Dual Purpose" Chickens in NC / S. VA
• Home needed for a California rooster named Rufus....
• butchering chickens for the first time
• free barred rock chickens
• Bantams in with Cornish Rocks????
• pickels and chickens (can they eat them?)
• Looking for Brown Leghorns in So. Maine
• ChickenFeed
• Feeding chickens and ducks from vending machines
• chicken question (what shouldn't they eat?)
• shipping of poultry update
• Opinions on Red Rock hens/ where to find??
• chicken question (how long to confine new arrivals?)
• !!!! McMurray Hatchery needs your help!!!!
• Chicken molting?
• Chicken Butcher in NW CT?
• Different types of GOLD chickens
• Poultry feed
• my new roo is getting the crap beat out of him x 5 days
• Chicken rearing
• Pastured Poultry website
• Substitute chicken feed
• where would i buy organic laying hens from
• book on chickens
• Chickens at fair
• Delaying the Crowing of a Rooster.
• Are chickens in the orchard alright?
• Pigeon flew the coop!!
• Well I can't find broiler feed anywhere....
• What kind of chicken is this?
• chicken not growing/getting comb
• first time butchering chickens--help!
• Need help my chickens won't stay off the rafters
• How to successfully integrate 2 chickens into existing flock?
• PleaSE UPDATE CHICKEN AND POST OFFICE DEAL...
• Chickens going to the fair
• Hens getting old but still laying some
• Question regarding chicken feed.....
• Chicken Mating
• Shipping Crisis: Searching for local chicken hatcheries (California)
• lookin' for some banties...
• Can you tell a rooster from a hen by its comb?
• Chickens have run away from coop!
• Light brahma hen crowing like a rooster in the city
• chicken in the city!
• I had to cull one of my chickens this morning.....
• Poultry: How do you feed grit
• Mixed birdseeds for chickens
• Chickens roosting in nest boxes
• crossing a Rhode Island Red and a Cornish Cross
• what is the best breed of chicken for meat
• diamatacious earth dangerous to chickens?
• Poultry prices
• Take A Look (Update on Shipping Poultry)
• how much would it cost to feed and growout 100 heavy breed chickens??
• Processing chickens
• Are Aracona chickens suppose to look alike???
• Chicken feathers? (How to pluck if you want to keep them?)
• Processing Chickens
• Fastest Way to Pluck a Chicken??`
• half bald chickens
• Crowing Hen??
• mixing old and new flocks of chickens
• Are chickens afraid of fake owls?
• chicken killings
• How can I introduce a new rooster to the flock?
• how to prepare (kill) chicken and ducks
• What breed are they? (Poultry - General)
• chicken won't use any nesting boxes
• What to do with all those cool feathers?
• Can woodchucks eat chickens? We have one out back.
• chicken feed homemade
• Pasture/grass for Poultry
• The End Of Mailing Poultry??
• oat crop to feed chickens?
• Buk Buk this is for you (Poultry - General)
• How to acquaint younger hen with older ones
• Boneless chickens (how to raise?)
• What is your favorite Breed of poultry?
• Do you want to learn about poultry or help others?
• Corn Husks for Chickens?
• genius chicken
• Is it too late to raise a few meat chickens?
• Are you looking for a hard to bird breed of bird?
• Broody hen ????
• Pigeon information wanted
• chicken vaccines. and what are common transmittable diseases.
• can a hen live alone? are crickets alright to feed? help
• I think one of our "Hens" is a rooster -how can I tell?
• invisible peeps (Poultry - General)
• How long is too long to set a hen?
• Butchering Meat Chickens
• Just watched a show on chickens on PBS
• Pellets for young chickens??
• How do I remove my rooster's spur?
• Broody Hen without eggs
• Free Range and Bantam Chicken Questions
• problem with rooster's spur
• soft vs. rigid chicken
• Looking for Homemade Broiler Finisher Recipe
• can't get onto PCGWF! (Poultry/General)
• how old do they have to be to start to lay?
• should I get another rooster?
• Does anyone still caponize chickens?
• when do roosters start crowing?
• How to break a broody hen
• P.O. Delivering Birds
• free-range chickens and winter sun
• Faverolles anyone? (Poultry/General)
• Pigeons info needed
• Setting hens
• Chicken Butchering - OK what did I do wrong?
• Hatchery endorsement
• Commercial Organic Chicken Feed
• Need chicken butchering advice ASAP!
• What kind of Ducks & Chickens are these?
• Can peacocks live with chickens
• Dressing small roosters (not full maturity)
• Bantam (Can Hen be Mated by Full-size Rooster?)
• Entering chickens in county fair
• adult chickens for sale?
• A very bad dress (dressing roosters)
• PasturePoultry e-Group Question??
• Tough rooster
• Do all hens lay?
• Sitting Hens and Nutrition
• Are you Interested in a new book: on Chicken Sexing? or Turkeys?
• young Jersey Giant hen is broody
• banding hens (to mark those laying)
• chicken musings (how to tell who is laying?)
• Trying to Determine the Breed of my Chicken
• Roosters bloodying hens backs
• Do black australorps usually set?
• Raising Organic Chickens for Meat & Eggs
• pigeons for food
• Free-ranging meat birds?
• Five year old chickens, not laying
• When Not To Eat A Chicken?? (Poultry - General)
• Feeding Question on Chickens (Poultry - General)
• Pastured Poultry Profits" by Joel Salatin- - - Opinions?
• ever have a broody hen starve?
• Cornish Cross & White Pekin (Poultry - General)
• need help identifying chickens
• genetic (poultry) breed article in past issue
• can a hen turn into a rooster?
• IDENTIFY THIS BREED OF ROOSTER, THANKS!
• Rice for chickens
• Breaking a broody hen
• Tamed chickens
• Brother and sister chicken (mating)
• Goofy rooster with his clock off
• Broken Rice/Rice bran for Chickens
• production red chickens
• hyline chickens?? Anyone know about them?
• chickens and red food
• Update on chickens who refused to go in the coop
• Revised Update: Texas Poultry Crisis 3/26/01
• Chicken fertility question
• chicken yard...spade or not to spade??
• Texas Pastured Poultry crisis
• source for adult ready to lay buff orpington hens(6) + rooster Christiansburg, OH
• Chickens refuse to go into the coop..what to do????
• Question on commercial feed vs. mill mixed feed (laying mash)
• poultry questions, turkeys and silkie chickens
• I finally have my chickens!
• Genetics ( chickens)
• Chicken manure - useful?
• Cornish Cross or Cornish Rock????
• Amount of Chicken Feed to buy
• Chicken Feed
• poultry show in Sussex, NJ?
• about the american pasture poultey assiocation
• Mixing old and new hens
• Introduction and chicken question
• How do protect your free range chickens?
• best free-ranging chicken
• chickens (good web site)
• California Grey Chicken Breed
• "Phoenix" breed of chicken?
• Keeping Chickens Out of the Garden
• Poultry Auction
• high protein chicken feed
• Should I keep a rooster?
• Meat-type Chickens-Questions (Poultry)
• Question for those who raise/have raised Aracauna Chickens
• sprouting seeds & other creative chicken feed ideas
• Cost of Chickens?
• Cooking Older Chooks
• Great Poultry Site
• Keeping chickens in the city
• How do you keep chickens from roosting in nest boxes?
• My chicken ate my earring
• A herd of chickens???
• Anybody in MA with chickens?
• help needed on chicken breeds
• How to slaughter meat chickens?
• Traveling Chickens
• ? about our rooster
• Home Made Crushed Oyster Shells
• Wife wants to know about chickens
• I need a Canadian poultry supplier of unusual breeds
• Rooster goes ballistic!
• Anyone raising Dorking chickens
• Chicken breed questions
• question about feeding chickens?
• Free rangers being stolen
• want to raise black java's, where do I get them?
• Poultry bedding-what kind
• need phone number or website for MURRY MCMURRY
• red frizzle bantam cochins
• Delaware Chickens
• I have been offered some free chickens...
• Broody hen
• Feeding whole wheat and now I have a question
• raising chickens commercialy
• raising chickens commercialy
• Broody Hen
• Roo is nice now, will he stay that way?
• chickens not laying well
• Roosting Chickens
• You Should See Those Gals Slide
• Question about where to find chickens
• couple of chicken questions
• Chickens in my potted plants
• chicken butchering question...
• Support for this forum and Chicken ??
• Keeping chickens off watering cans
• ROOSTER ALONE!!!
• Chickens stopped laying
• Contacts and Sunglasses? (On chickens)
• ANTIBIOTIC USE IN POULTRY
• Hatchery report
• water for chickens in winter?
• How do you sterilize feathers?
• Top Hat Chickens
• another popcorn question (OK to feed unpopped to chickens & goats)?
• How much does it cost to feed chickens per day???
• Hen roosting in pine tree, will she freeze?
• FDA moves to ban antibiotics in poultry feed
• poultry hatcheries in Florida?
• How long do chickens incubate?
• fresh greens for chickens
• Getting Chickens Drunk Before Slaughter
• Do hens ever crow?
• almond schucks for chicken feed?
• How much protein for chickens?
• Chickens from factory farm
• Question to Commercial Fowl Breeders
• Should I let hens set now?
• Poultry Site with Pictures
• Heating a large chicken coop
• Chicken questions
• Skinning Chickens??
• Broiler feed recipe
• I want to raise chickens in northern Wisconsin!
• [$$$]values of adult Auricauna and Black Australorp chickens,juvenile and adult Boff geese?
• Suggestion for spurring rooster problems
• two hens and a bably
• How are your Broken-legged Birds Doing???
• Chicken feed
• Advanced chickens
• Hot Hens
• java and antique breeds of chicken
• Buff Orpingtons
• chickens
• Looking for Poultry Pickin' Wax!
• Impact of Free Range Birds
• Resurrected Chicken
• Chicken Run-- the movie
• depressing update on my broody hen...
• In praise of Sand Hill Preservation Center
• long over due hello and chicken ?
• Hen House Hierarchy- a story-LONG, but fun!
• Turkens (Naked necks)
• chicken feet broth - whatta concept!!
• Young Chickens
• Too many roosters?
• Chicken Sale
• OK, whatta ya do with chicken feet after ya eat the chicken???
• what to do with my broody hen
• Chickens won't eat
• chickens (miscellaneous questions)
• chickens (need for red night light)
• broiler cross butcher day!
• Clipping Rooster's Nails?!!??
• Need Brown Leghorn Rooster -Southern Me or NH
• chickens
• Can chickens eat Lily's of the Valley?
• last word on the broody hen
• chickens, ducks, geese, and guinneas
• what might cause a flock of hens to stop laying?
• broody hen update
• Breeding Chickens
• chicken questions and more
• How do I trim my hen's flight feathers and intorducing bantams to full size hens
• Hatching times for chickens
• chickens growing up
• Snail eaters?!
• Skinning chickens
• Slaughtering Chickens - Skinning vs. Plucking - Freezing
• Snake=yuck
• Smell chickens don't like
• meat safety (salmonella)
• what to do with 1 chick
• Chiken feet
• Little Cornish Hens
• emerald in chicken
• Nice Rooster Breed?
• How do you introduce the new chickens to the old?
• Why Roosters?
• husband and chickens
• mail order chicken problems
• update on new chickens
• new chickens
• Thanks for info on my Sex-Links
• response to broody hen
• How old does a rooster need to be.....
• broody hen
• chickens
• Comfrey for Chickens
• has any one order from RED TOP CHICK FARM?
• Which Hens?
• What breed of chickens?
• suburbian chickens
• Ohio hatchery?
• Isn't it early for hens to get broody?
• Poultry Community update Plus
• Good laying hens
• Poultry community update 1-22-00
• raising chickens
• Poultry community update
• Tough Butchered Chickens
• New online poultry community
• Chicken not laying
• chicken moult
• Can chickens survive Alaska winters?
• ? small white laying hens
• Chicken Feed
• ? lights and chickens?
• Hen question
• Chickens: Is "Sex Link" Really a Breed?
• mixing poultry & gardening
• chicken source
• They stoped laying
• How to de-spur rooster?
• Chickens stopped laying
• Chickens and freezing weather
• chicken weight
• how to keep chickens in a "no chicken zone."
• natural wasp killer (for use in chicken house)
• Chicken feed
• From Scratch Chicken Scratch
• chicken feed