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How to pluck a chicken? Put up a kill cone, a scalding pot (something to hold boiling water), and make one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMGZMoENjcU&feature=related You can take a bird from clucking and making GBS threads to cleaned and in the oven in under ten minutes even if you're a newbie. A whizbang plucker is the difference between keeping a few roasters and being able to scale up to hundreds if you have the land. Tig: I'm north of Seattle. Predators up here from most to least problems are: racoons (if you see one shoot it!), neighborhood dogs (gently caress people that don't keep them secure), hawks, golden eagles, and owls. Depending on your area you may have predators of the two legged variety, so always lock your coops at night! edit: this video shows kill cones and more plucker hilarity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OMO73yFZ4s&feature=related Let Them Eat Cake fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jun 16, 2011 |
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You can still keep chooks with racoons around. You just have to build an all-in-one coop where they never can get out. You also must make sure the racoons can't dig under or reach through. My first batch of chickens would free-range during the day and be in a coop at night. Two of the walls had chicken wire walls. The coons would come at night and beat on one side. When the chickens would run to the other side and reach their heads through the wire to get as far away as they could another coon would reach down and break their necks one by one. When the chickens were dead they'd all go and pull as many parts through the wire as they could and then take their haul home. Lesson learned? Use hardware cloth that is so small the chickens can't get anything at all through it (fingertip sized holes or smaller). Your neighbors are bastards for feeding the racoons. Those things will seriously gently caress a person up if they get cornered and can carry all sorts of diseases and parasites. They kill cats and even medium sized dogs with ease. They will murder a small child if they have the chance just because they don't give a poo poo, and as you're reaching down to protect the child they'll reach up and bite you in the dick and give you dick rabies before padding off to your back yard to gently caress your rottweiler in the rear end. They are the urban versions of honey badgers ... they aren't squirrels, people!
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