In nearly 20 years of raising chickens, I’ve learned a thing or two — mostly by doing it wrong at first!
by CuzMike
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- January 20, 2015 10:51 pm
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Marge Pauls
So, Mike...just how many chickens do you have, anyway? lol!
- January 20, 2015
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CuzMike
I have 15 and 2 roosters. When the sub-zero weather hit they quit laying though... especially the roosters...lol
- January 21, 2015
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Marge Pauls
lol!
- January 21, 2015
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Dale Barnes
I keep it down to three or four producers. The wife and I don't eat or use many eggs and she can't stand to kill them so that job is up to me and I'm not a fan of it either.
- January 20, 2015
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CuzMike
Best way I've found to dispatch them is to put them under a 5 gal. bucket with the head stuck out. That way when the head is removed all the flopping and blood splattering is contained.
- January 21, 2015
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Randall Covey, Russian Hacker
Hey... never considered that. Not bad. 
- January 21, 2015
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Marge Pauls
Good idea, Mike! I remember my grandmother running around the kitchen after a dinner that got away...finally cornered it in the bathroom. Grandpa ALWAYS made her do the dispatching. Hated the smell when I was singeing feathers; wasn't wild about scraping the feet, either. I can cook just about a...
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- January 21, 2015
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Randall Covey, Russian Hacker
This is something I need to send down to my little girl.
- January 21, 2015
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Safari Woman
I wish I could have chickens
- January 21, 2015
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Marge Pauls
Instead of kids? lol!
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