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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I guess I thought you limited them to a couple of rounds of hatching per 
year.  Couldn't you just leave (once you have enough hens and roosters) them 
to do their adult business on their own and raise and hatch their chicks, on 
their own, and soon you would have a hundred chickens running all over the 
place and you just grab several per week to clean and eat?

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--- On Thu, 12/18/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Hatching Round 2
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 7:30 PM
> bobf wrote:
> > Bev, this is going to sound naiive, but I don't
> know about raising 
> > chickens.  You are getting the chicks for free and
> feeding them for 
> > free; why do you limit their numbers?
> 
> I am not limiting numbers..why do you think that?  I am
> trying as hard
> as I can to generate numbers!
> 
> 
>   If you have a bunch running
> > around all of the time, even if the predators took a
> percentage , 
> > wouldn't you still have plenty left?
> 
> That's the idea.  But better would be to put roosters
> in the freezer
> before the predators get them.
> 
> 
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