Posts by Mikedero

that works as well. I process half this weekend and the rest next weekend.   their legs are HUGE I mean they are bigger then our year old layers

 So the other day we ran out of Chicken in the freezer and I decided to process a few chicken early 4.5 weeks to restock up the fridge. I processed 4 radom ones the lowest weight cleaned was 4 pounds 1 ounce and the largest 5...

Quote: Originally Posted by ChickenJerk  Between six and seven.  388,000 at a time.  Holy chicken batman, think about if you had to hand pluck them LOL

Quote: Originally Posted by SmokinChick  That's the real issue.  How many can your land, surroundings and your labor support?  I never thought of that, I am still goign to do 3 but the Summer batch I am...

I should have added that I am on week 4 on my first batch, my next batch will be started next week and my third batch will start at the end of september

Heat man I wish last night was 33 degrees I lost one 2 days ago 4 weeks old and it got down to 28 degrees.   todays high is 62 degrees we dont get 100 degree days at least until july and then only 3-5 days total per year. But...

 This year I am going to do 3 batchs with the first batch doing 24 second batch 40 and the thrid and final batch 40 as well. I am splitting the costs with another person on these so I end up with half the chicken and they pay...

Again as I stated each to their own. If I built that it would have filled right up to the top with snow during the blizzard as we had drifts over 6 ft and I would have chickencicles    I will stay with what I got, looks...

Quote: Originally Posted by JackE  What benefit is to be had from insulating a chicken coop for the winter?  A coop is not like your house, where you use insulation to help keep your furnace provided heat inside....

 So my second set of 9 layers are 3-4 weeks old time to start on the coop. this past Friday I started the coop is 5X8 kind of liek the purina mills plan. I learned my lesson from my mistakes from my first coop. My first mistake...