For poultry, including chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese, they may arrive the night before or on the day of slaughter and are stunned using either electrical stunning or carbon dioxide gas. Once unconscious,the neck is severed to allow bleeding out to cause death. Are chickens slaughtered huma...
The hen inverts her cloaca to meet the rooster’s presentation of his and accept the semen into her reproductive tract. THE ACT So..how DO they do the deed? The rooster gets into position, which resembles a piggy-back ride, standing on her back, holding her neck feathers with his beak...
On the Urban Chicken Podcast today, we also discuss a home remedy bath recipe to rid your backyard flock of its lice and mites. Though any biodegradable soap can be used in this recipe, I personally have used Dr. Bronner’s castille soaps for years and appreciate the quality of the produc...
because although it’s a year when hard work is rewarded, people supposedly will have to work twice as hard to get anything done. It’s not supposed to be a year of catastrophes but of retrenching after last year. It’s traditionally lucky for marriages and money, so hopefully...
“hey Derek, the chickens are out and Jake is chewing on one of them.” So I hung up and we cashed the damn chickens everywhere and put the dogs in. The rooster was the hardest to catch, basically had to keep chasing it til he tired out then dove on him....