Posts by Flyboy718

Quote: Originally Posted by hydroswiftrob  I was talking about adult birds. 60 adult birds in the trampoline is more than doable. Wow!  I gotta find me a trampoline.  

Quote: Originally Posted by hydroswiftrob  That is the way I try to get them, but this week someone had bought them all before they went on discount   I went this morning to check the new arrivals and they...

Yeap, my TSC gets cornish x chicks every wednesday...so if you wait a week and on tuesday's if they still have some, which is almost always the case you can get week old cornish x for $1 a piece.

What I was meaning was how many could you put in that trampoline to completely grow out?  Not just chicks.

Quote: Originally Posted by Flyboy718  Holy cow that trampoline is AWSOME!  I actually thought about the same thing but never thought of turning it upside down! How many birds do you think you could...

Holy cow that trampoline is AWSOME!  I actually thought about the same thing but never thought of turning it upside down!

Hmmm....wonder if I could just feed them my Layer 16% for the first few weeks then go to straight cracked corn.

Thinking of doing my next batch of four on cracked corn only.  Bag says it is 7% protein.  I don't care if they grow slower by feeding them this, just wondering if anyone else has done it and what the results were...

I keep food out for my six layers all day and take it up at night and they go through a 50 lb bag a month.  Does anyone feed your layers less or what do you do?

Quote: Originally Posted by loanwizard  That is actually why I started this thread, for my own information and to share as I learn. Someone said somewhere in my searches that it works out to about $3.75 per bird but...