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07/26/12, 09:00 AM
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Chickens comeing up for sale $1ea
Next week in the neighborhood a poultry farm/farm/feed mills will be selling chickens for a buc k ea. wooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooo. Ill likely get a hundred, A friend from church wants a doz. Maybe another friend that used to be on here wants some, and maybe my DD wants some. IF not. Ill take them to the sale next month, those I dont want. Id want 2 doz for myself.
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07/26/12, 10:30 AM
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More info please. Are these baby chicks? Hens that are done laying? Government surplus chickens? Chicken mutants? A defeated rebel chicken army?
If these are chickens you can feed a little bit and then send to freezer camp you made a great score.
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07/26/12, 10:33 AM
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Alive or dead????
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07/26/12, 11:43 AM
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They are Im guessing 18 months old thereabouts. Very much alive when a person buys them. I dont have a freezer so I dont have a camp lol.
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07/26/12, 11:53 AM
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Ahh, cool! We can the legs and thighs, bone-in. When I butcher, we make broth with the backs & necks, then use that broth for the canning liquid. Great instant dinner with veggies and dumplings, or in fajitas, or a dozen other things. You're probably (!) too far away to share, but my son built me a chicken plucker, and it's such a joy!
Congrats on your going-to-be score!
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07/26/12, 11:55 AM
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How much money did he have in it?
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07/26/12, 12:03 PM
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Wow that's a steal! We're going to be canning up a few of our hens this fall to avoid feeding them through the winter. They were raised from chicks and we had more than 1.00 in each of them within a few days of arrival!
BTW, we do our butchering and canning the lazy way. We clean the birds, ice them down whole and then throw them in a huge canning pot for about 24 hours on simmer. Then we pick the meat off, throw away the bones and pack the meat and broth into quarts and can it up! Super fast. 
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07/26/12, 12:22 PM
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$1 for 18 mo is a very good deal, IMO. Even if they go right into the freezer.
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07/26/12, 12:28 PM
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I hear if you look at dumpsters behind egg hatcheries, you can sometimes find them full of live male chicks for the taking.
And of course, there's the "zombie chickens" - spent laying hens that are disposed of by burying them alive in the landfill - until they wake up and rise from their mounds of dirt and walk out!
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article...NEWS/611220399
If they gave them away, I'd take them and make soup!
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07/26/12, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by FarmBoyBill
They are Im guessing 18 months old thereabouts. Very much alive when a person buys them. I dont have a freezer so I dont have a camp lol.
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Sounds like "spent hens" from a layer operation.
For a $1.00 apiece it's not a bad deal if you understand what you are getting. Keep them away from other birds for a month or so, feed them right, and they'll molt out whatever old feathers they had and start laying again. May need to trim their nails as well. They'll lay productively for at least another year. Afterwards you can make soup.
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07/26/12, 01:07 PM
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This will make my 3rd or 4th time of buying them from this egg farm. Ive never had to trim their toenails, tho they look long and gangly for a LONG time. The feathers nowadays are almost all there, unlike the fiorst time, when they were almost all not there.
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07/26/12, 03:16 PM
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What a great price! Out of curiosity, what's the "normal" price of a chicken?
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07/26/12, 03:49 PM
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Use to around here, the egg operations sent all their spent chickens straight to the Campbells chicken soup factory nearby. Do they not do that anymore?
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07/26/12, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Ifistav
What a great price! Out of curiosity, what's the "normal" price of a chicken?
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That all depends on the breed and age of the chickens. If farmboybill takes a bunch to the Inola Auction, he's gonna make a good chunk of money off of them. I would say he'll probably get at least $7 or $8 out of them and maybe more.
FBB, I brought a bunch of spent egg layers home one time. It took a few months but they finally started acting like real chickens and they still layed good for a couple more years. I think you got a good deal. If I had my new chcken coop built and knew I could afford the feed bill, I would have you get m a few.
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07/26/12, 04:04 PM
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Yep and feeds gonna go up even higher with the corn crop going to croap this year.
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07/26/12, 06:09 PM
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I got it on farm status.
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Hmm, We've got an egg farm down the road about 5 miles away... I wonder what they do with their birds. Just outside of a major metro, a person could probably sell as many as they could get if they were young enough to lay.
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07/26/12, 11:27 PM
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my sister and i got some either last year or the year before last-can't remember. yes, we had to cut toenails and they were the craziest chickens ever. they went and stayed in the chicken house in a group and wouldn't come out for a couple months. poor things were used to living in cages i guess. they had no clue what it was to scratch and peck around in the grass for the longest time. so sad really. thanks for the heads up again, bill. i let my sis know. waiting on a response from her.
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07/27/12, 09:28 AM
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You'll all be horribly aghast at local chicken prices here: A good layer of any breed is $15 to $20. Day old chicks are between $4 and $6, depending on breed. Stew pot birds, which would be old layers and excess roos, between $10 and $15. Free range, organic meat birds sell for $25 each. And no, that's not a misprint, lol
Of course, layer feed is now just over $20 a bag, even for the low protein cheap stuff.
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07/27/12, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Oldcountryboy
Use to around here, the egg operations sent all their spent chickens straight to the Campbells chicken soup factory nearby. Do they not do that anymore?
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Campbells quit buying spent hens more than a decade ago. Very little human food use of spent laying hens anymore. Nowadays I think they are mostly just composted though some may still get used for food or animal feed.
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07/27/12, 11:45 AM
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that is a shame! those birds could feed so many hungry families! good for you on claiming a score like that. chicken stew at your house!
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