Posts by trifecta

I think Goffel Road Poultry Farm in Hawthorne, NJ used to do processing... I don't know if they do now.  Its in Bergen County, NJ.

I actually found a chart online that went through egg conversion sizes after I started looking.  I have no idea how big a bantam egg is (small?) but basically it sounds like unless I"m baking in a large quantity that I dont need...

Thanks!  I just made some gingerbread cookies and just used the number of eggs and it seemed to come out ok!

Hi Everyone!   So, I kept 2 black broiler hens and 4 cornish that were destined for my freezer (and technically still are!).... well lo and behold, a few of them are now laying and I've gotten about a dozen eggs this...

I think my cost-benefit analysis works out in my favor when I calculate the cost of the food I'm producing and not the lowest cost I can purchase it for.  Ie, at Dillon's, I can buy a whole chicken for less than $1/lb.  But,...

Its definitely way lower in protein than traditional broiler feed.  What type of meat birds do you have? If they're CX's, at 8 weeks they should be very close to butchering age anyway.   I fed my meaties layer feed this...

Any reviews on the plastic (Eggloo??) coops.   They appear to be wildly expensive.  However, I like my chickens too much to subject them to living under something I built :).

I don't use bleach. I rinse each carcass thoroughly with cold water prior to final cutting/packaging.   I also use a meat thermometer when I cook :) (not just for chicken, but in general).  Haven't died yet... or even had...

The biggest problem with CO2 stunning is that its difficult to implement at home in a way that is not overly stressful to the animal.  CO2 stunning is commonly used and has totally modernized humane hog slaughter- the biggest push...

No.  The law of random assortment says that you have a 50% likelihood of inheriting a certain gene from each parent, right (each side has 1 set).  In a purebred, these genes are very consistent between the 2 parents- so these...