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Raw Chicken

@rawchickenNT

Birth, life, death and love… alongside chickens

 Darwin, NT, Australia
Joined February 2013
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The Art of Ripping Heads wp.me/p2QaIH-t
The Art of Ripping Heads

The Art of Ripping Heads

Drowning chicks is banned in some countries. The wife knows the fastest and kindest way to end their suffering is to break their necks. She also knows she lacks the confidence and will power to mak…

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That Plymouth hatched 7 babies... and squashed 5 of them. Absolute carnage in the nest. Devo.
Preparing to brave the Plymouth in the nest; tonight, in the dark, with gloves, to give her fertile eggs
Tape black drinking straws or corrugated cardboard to the underside of perches. Red mite will roost in them, then you can throw them away
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That brown araucana is not missing, but AWOL. Just when I give up hope, she appears from her dalliances, just briefly.
The rottenness of a rotten egg cannot be underestimated.
After all I have seen in the world of eggs, sometimes I have to work hard to enjoy eating the splendid things.
PRETTY glad I wasn't running an incubator this week... Generator is still on my list.
Want to decrease no. of bush rats in roof. A swollen smelly floater in the spa. LONG tails. Beautiful creatures. :(
Dumb idea to part with beautiful roosters. Missing them, regretting change of direction to lighten load.
Official word from the coop is quiet, dark night. 5 stars. "Best sleep ever", said one hen. #blackout
Sons, we raise chickens. We are not diary farmers. Why the 4:30am starts... ?
Caught 2 little squawking Rhode Island Red escapees this afternoon to save them from the neck pecks of the big girls.
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Hello, tiny fury face with big ears and long whiskers, peering over coop into the light of my head-torch #wherearethesnakes
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