Posts by shadowmane

An update on this.  I let them out of their respective corners towards afternoon yesterday.  There is a truce between the roosters.  There are 20 hens to share between them, which is why we got two to begin with. ...

Well, I put my two new roos in the coop last night.  I've had them in lock-up where they can see the hens, but not contact.  Last night, I put them in with the hens, then let them out this morning.  I went in the house...

Quote: Originally Posted by Nomibear  110 pages! Wow! I started last Friday, and just finished... After reading all this info, I am really Hopeing this works for me:) I don't have any meaties right now, 19 16-week old...

Yes, they're on ice for a few days.  After that, we'll put them in the freezer.  We're butchering two more this morning after the wifie gets up and has breakfast.

Well, all I had to weigh them on was some bathroom scales, so it wasn't quite accurate.  They were around 7lbs before slaughter, and they were around 4 to 5 lbs after slaughter.  We had to pluck by hand.  We don't have a...

Thanks.  We plucked them.  It was quite easy to pull the feathers off without breaking the skin.

I just butchered two of them raised on fermented feed.  I can't wait to taste them.  I have 9 more waiting in the wings.  It wasn't too bad for my first time killing a chicken.

Well, I butchered two of the roosters today.  They both weighed in around 7lbs live.  After all was said and done, I had a couple of 4lb birds to go in the freezer.  2 down, 9 to go.  It took us 2 hours from start...

Okay.  I just went out and put her in the nest box.  She laid this first one in the evening.  I don't know if she'll be laying all her eggs in the evening though.  I really don't know how long this egg was in there,...

Okay, so granted, I just got the nest boxes set up this week.  They've been hung for weeks, but I haven't had them set up for the pullets.  Now, we had our first little pullet egg, and it was laid right in the middle of the...