Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Don't Like Turkey? No Problem - NBC4i.com

Don't Like Turkey? No ProblemNBC4i.com“It takes like chicken, but it's just the juiciest chicken you've ever had,“ Bullock said. A capon is a neutered rooster—raised differently than your ...
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Keeping Roosters Quiet | The Farmers' Almanac Blog

I still hate to see cities completely ban roosters, but it's a compromise that many urban chicken keepers are willing to make. For more information about keeping backyard poultry please listen to Backyard Poultry with the Chicken ...
[original post by Chicken Whisperer]
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Northern Ohio Poultry: For Sale * Trade * Looking For * Local ...

I'm ordering poultry, hatching eggs, etc. from as far south as Texas. If we are talking about local food sources, then it makes sense to keep the supply chain more local. I'd like some crested ducks for my pond - fertile eggs or chicks. ... They were laying nice very dark brown eggs well until daylight went to under 14 hours. Waiting to see if my neighbor wants them. Also need to get rid of 4 roosters - Wheaten and Splash Americaunas if anyone is interested. Free. ...
[original post by unknown]
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Billings Backyard Poultry: Nest box

Billings Backyard Poultry. Tips and experiences of a hobbiest chicken raiser. ... Barred rock. Barred rock we think it's a rooster .... Our only dominique. Our only dominique a medium sized rooster ... Our biggest rooster ...
[original post by Clayton]
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Monaco Intelligence: IN THE SOUP (A THANKSGIVING FABLE)

And when that happens--ha!--fried chicken is not on the menu." "N-n-no?" gobbled Terry. "Pork chops?" Rufus clucked with laughter. "Guess again, gobble-face." Something about this rooster's cockiness worried Terry. "You m-m-mean. .... The smell of poultry death hung foul in the air. Terry tried to hold his breath to stifle his fear. Terry's truck ground to a halt. Its back doors opened and, one by one, the turkeys were grabbed and hung by their feet from a metal shackle ...
[original post by Robert Eringer]
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Don't Like Turkey? No Problem - NBC4i.com

Don't Like Turkey? No ProblemNBC4i.com“It takes like chicken, but it's just the juiciest chicken you've ever had,“ Bullock said. A capon is a neutered rooster—raised differently than your ...
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'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens (The Salem News)

MARBLEHEAD and mdash; Want to see four young Marblehead chicks strutting through their daily routines on the Internet? There's plenty of drama, including watching statuesque Zoe establish her dominance over the shy Henrietta.
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Marblehead Hens: We are Front Page News!!!

In fact, a webcam monitors his backyard chicken coop and four stars, including Juliet and Penny Henny. It's "The Real World" with chickens, and none of the fowl language is censored. There is no sound, but lip readers — make that beak readers — will have a field day. ... In addition to his passion for poultry, Joe is a bit of an electronics enthusiast, which led to setting up the camera, taking it online and even arranging some advertising with Google. ...
[original post by Marblehead Chicken]
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'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens - The Salem News

'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hensThe Salem News"We promised no rooster," Joe said. "We live on a quiet street." The ultimate fate of the four chickens remains in doubt. Joe Selby explains that once you ...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens - Salem News

In fact, a webcam monitors his backyard chicken coop and four stars, including Juliet and Penny Henny. It's "The Real World" with ... Zoe is the biggest bird, and she certainly appears to be the head hen," Joe says. "Henrietta is not the smallest ...
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'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens (The Salem News)

MARBLEHEAD and mdash; Want to see four young Marblehead chicks strutting through their daily routines on the Internet? There's plenty of drama, including watching statuesque Zoe establish her dominance over the shy Henrietta.
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'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens ...

In fact, a webcam monitors his backyard chicken coop and four stars, including Juliet and Penny Henny. It's "The Real World" with chickens, and none of the fowl language is censored. There is no sound, but lip readers — make that beak readers — will have a field day. ... In addition to his passion for poultry, Joe is a bit of an electronics enthusiast, which led to setting up the camera, taking it online and even arranging some advertising with Google. ...
[original post by unknown]
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'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens - The Salem News

'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hensThe Salem News"We promised no rooster," Joe said. "We live on a quiet street." The ultimate fate of the four chickens remains in doubt. Joe Selby explains that once you ...
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'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens - The Salem News

'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hensThe Salem News"We promised no rooster," Joe said. "We live on a quiet street." The ultimate fate of the four chickens remains in doubt. Joe Selby explains that once you ...
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'Coop cam' offers a live look at Marblehead family's hens - Salem News

In fact, a webcam monitors his backyard chicken coop and four stars, including Juliet and Penny Henny. It's "The Real World" with ... Zoe is the biggest bird, and she certainly appears to be the head hen," Joe says. "Henrietta is not the smallest ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

write that!: Big Chicken Day

Big Chicken Day. I thought this was a writing blog! Hah! I want to write about chickens. MONDAY the guinea hens screeched at the boy-gang of marauding young roosters, who invaded the vegetable patch for my ripening tomatoes. ... We leave at 7.30am for Kings Poultry near Troy, Ohio (USDOT inspected, chickens chilled to 40 degrees and sent out on ice) for our 10am appointment. I try not to think about how much I love the chickens, how funny Christmas is, how the guineas ...
[original post by Write That!]
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Poultry in Urbania - Ooooby

Re Guinea Fowl - I used to have one at my last place, luckily in the country. I loved it, so cute and heaps of personality, but they do sound like a rusty gate being wrenced back and forth continuously. And I only had one! Pam Unkovich Comment by Pam Unkovich on October 29, 2009 at 9:00am: From a clutch of four eggs now have one very cute fluffy black and white chicken. Mother hen is very very protective - have had to arm myself while feeding to avoid being attacked! ...
[original post by unknown]
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Keys Voices » Why Chickens Rule the Roost in Key West

Fowl fanciers flocked to participate, dressing in full-body yellow chicken suits and feathered headdresses, covering their noses with vinyl rooster beaks and donning red and yellow plush chicken-head caps. The highlight was a Poultry in ...
[original post by Carol Shaughnessy]
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Featured Videos Victims of Fowl Play: Chickens Condenmed to ...

United Poultry Concerns is a non-profit group based in Michigan, USA that addresses “the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment and human companionship situations. ... And you can see the male roosters kind of take over their hens and protect them. Karen (f): They break up during the day into smaller groups of several hens and one rooster and they go off, and roosters will call to each other through the dense foliage ...
[original post by SupremeMasterTV]
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Oak Creek Town Board allows family to keep 3 hens - Steamboat Pilot

Oak Creek Town Board allows family to keep 3 hensSteamboat PilotThe town's trustees granted residents Ann and Walt Trout permission to keep their fowl until a formal ordinance change can be crafted to allow live chickens ...
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Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable? (San Francisco Chronicle)

Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers. At issue are small cages, typically 24 inches wide by... Animal welfare - Chicken - Poultry - Ask an Expert - Birds
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Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable? (AP via Yahoo! News)

Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?
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Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable? (Newsday)

Researchers ask whether caged egg-laying chickens are miserable stuffed into tiny cages
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Are caged chickens miserable (MalaysiaNews.net)

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfa...
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If Goldman Sachs Wrote Fables - Firedoglake (blog)

If Goldman Sachs Wrote FablesFiredoglake (blog)"Oh, yes, said the fox to the hen as he talked to her through the chicken wire on the hen house. "I can teach you so many things. ...
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Flora the city hen keeps her 4 chicks fed and safe - Dallas Morning News

Dallas Morning NewsFlora the city hen keeps her 4 chicks fed and safeDallas Morning NewsI cannot tell yet whether there are roosters among the four. If so, they will have to be relocated where roosters are allowed, since they are against Dallas ...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Fate of chickens in the city decided (The Hamilton Journal News)

OXFORD - The issue of having chickens inside the city limits scratched by this week as council enacted a formal policy in favor of the poultry in a 4-3 vote.
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Allowing chickens in Layton residential areas still on hold - StandardNet

Allowing chickens in Layton residential areas still on holdStandardNetCurtis said it appears it is not the hens but the roosters that can serve as a distraction for neighbors. Some cities have opened up backyard chickens to ...
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Fate of chickens in the city decided - Oxford Press

Fate of chickens in the city decidedOxford PressChicken keeper Rob Abowitz, who attended the meeting, requested and was granted a change to the proposed rule, increasing the number of allowed birds from ...and more »
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City council considers chicken ordinance - WACH

City council considers chicken ordinanceWACHThe ordinance would allow residents to keep up to four hens in a coop. No roosters are allowed. City Council heard from the public at a meeting Wednesday. ...Yardbirds: urban chickens gain supportThe Stateall 2 news articles »
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Yardbirds: urban chickens gain support (The State)

City leans toward allowing backyard birds
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Talking About Food and Farming with Orren Fox - OpEdNews

OpEdNewsTalking About Food and Farming with Orren FoxOpEdNewsWe have goats, hens, roosters, horses, ducks, and guinea hens. Boy, they sure do throw up a racket! When I first became interested in hens, I volunteered at ...
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Columbia discusses allowing chickens in backyards (WIS News 10 Columbia)

A proposed livestock ordinance was discussed at the Columbia City Council meeting Wednesday.
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City council considers chicken ordinance - WACH

City council considers chicken ordinanceWACHThe ordinance would allow residents to keep up to four hens in a coop. No roosters are allowed. City Council heard from the public at a meeting Wednesday. ...
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City council considers chicken ordinance - WACH

City council considers chicken ordinanceWACHThe ordinance would allow residents to keep up to four hens in a coop. No roosters are allowed. City Council heard from the public at a meeting Wednesday. ...
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Fate of chickens in the city decided (The Hamilton Journal News)

OXFORD - The issue of having chickens inside the city limits scratched by this week as council enacted a formal policy in favor of the poultry in a 4-3 vote.
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Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas County - Pitch Weekly

Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas CountyPitch WeeklyPolice storming the sleeping farm compound at 2174 North 700 Road in Eudora at 7:30 am also seized 118 gamecocks, 48 hens and 3 chicks, according to a ...and more »
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City council considers chicken ordinance - WACH

City council considers chicken ordinanceWACHThe ordinance would allow residents to keep up to four hens in a coop. No roosters are allowed. City Council heard from the public at a meeting Wednesday. ...
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Columbia discusses allowing chickens in backyards (WIS News 10 Columbia)

A proposed livestock ordinance was discussed at the Columbia City Council meeting Wednesday.
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Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas County - Pitch Weekly

Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas CountyPitch WeeklyPolice storming the sleeping farm compound at 2174 North 700 Road in Eudora at 7:30 am also seized 118 gamecocks, 48 hens and 3 chicks, according to a ...and more »
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Inghams warned over "no GM" claims after chickens eat GM feed (TVNZ)

A warning has been issued to poultry producer Inghams, over its claims that its chickens contain no genetically modified ingredients...COMMENT
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Fate of chickens in the city decided (The Hamilton Journal News)

OXFORD - The issue of having chickens inside the city limits scratched by this week as council enacted a formal policy in favor of the poultry in a 4-3 vote.
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City council considers chicken ordinance - WACH

City council considers chicken ordinanceWACHThe ordinance would allow residents to keep up to four hens in a coop. No roosters are allowed. City Council heard from the public at a meeting Wednesday. ...
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Columbia discusses allowing chickens in backyards (WIS News 10 Columbia)

A proposed livestock ordinance was discussed at the Columbia City Council meeting Wednesday.
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Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas County - Pitch Weekly

Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas CountyPitch WeeklyPolice storming the sleeping farm compound at 2174 North 700 Road in Eudora at 7:30 am also seized 118 gamecocks, 48 hens and 3 chicks, according to a ...and more »
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City council considers chicken ordinance - WACH

City council considers chicken ordinanceWACHThe ordinance would allow residents to keep up to four hens in a coop. No roosters are allowed. City Council heard from the public at a meeting Wednesday. ...
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Inghams warned over "no GM" claims after chickens eat GM feed (TVNZ)

A warning has been issued to poultry producer Inghams, over its claims that its chickens contain no genetically modified ingredients...COMMENT
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Fate of chickens in the city decided (The Hamilton Journal News)

OXFORD - The issue of having chickens inside the city limits scratched by this week as council enacted a formal policy in favor of the poultry in a 4-3 vote.
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Columbia discusses allowing chickens in backyards (WIS News 10 Columbia)

A proposed livestock ordinance was discussed at the Columbia City Council meeting Wednesday.
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Fate of chickens in the city decided - Oxford Press

Fate of chickens in the city decidedOxford PressChicken keeper Rob Abowitz, who attended the meeting, requested and was granted a change to the proposed rule, increasing the number of allowed birds from ...and more »
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Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas County - Pitch Weekly

Alleged cockfighters busted in rural Douglas CountyPitch WeeklyPolice storming the sleeping farm compound at 2174 North 700 Road in Eudora at 7:30 am also seized 118 gamecocks, 48 hens and 3 chicks, according to a ...and more »
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Inghams warned over "no GM" claims after chickens eat GM feed (TVNZ)

A warning has been issued to poultry producer Inghams, over its claims that its chickens contain no genetically modified ingredients...COMMENT
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Fate of chickens in the city decided (The Hamilton Journal News)

OXFORD - The issue of having chickens inside the city limits scratched by this week as council enacted a formal policy in favor of the poultry in a 4-3 vote.
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Columbia discusses allowing chickens in backyards (WIS News 10 Columbia)

A proposed livestock ordinance was discussed at the Columbia City Council meeting Wednesday.
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City council considers chicken ordinance - WACH

City council considers chicken ordinanceWACHThe ordinance would allow residents to keep up to four hens in a coop. No roosters are allowed. City Council heard from the public at a meeting Wednesday. ...
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Columbia discusses allowing chickens in backyards (WIS News 10 Columbia)

A proposed livestock ordinance was discussed at the Columbia City Council meeting Wednesday.
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