Posts by OHSpartan

Funny story......I rehomed my egg laying chick from the brooder to the coop. They aren't big enough to hang with the hens and guinea without getting pecked so I put them in with my near-harvest Cornish crosses. I figured the coop was...

Eta...mods if this fits best in medical and diseases feel free to move it. I have only ever observed this with broilers.

I have mature cockerel broilers and we have been harvesting them of late. As they get into their 10th week we are getting some congestive heart failure issues. One thing I noticed was each of the three birds that we harvested/lost...

I bred two CX's last year that made it almost 20 weeks.  After I dressed them, the combined weight was 25 lbs.   Now, these birds were allowed to free range very early.  When the rest of the flock met mr plucky...

I know most places commend 18-20% protein for Cornish cross meat birds. Would feeding 22-25% cause them to grow faster or would the extra protein just pass through in the poo? Lets say I could put them in a support to keep them from...

It was expensive but we raised two to 25 lbs dressed.....my family eats a ton of food and we still only ate one half of one breast in one meal. One wing served as my lunch at work the next day. Eta....they were 25 lbs total, not each.

You might get more meat from a quail.... We won a game bird bantam roo in a raffle. Some friends said it would be athletic enough to give it flying exercise for a dark meat special. We're going to give it a try

I got a black jersey giant, two buff brahma roos, and two wyandottes as part of a hatchery special. They were born the same day as my cx's and will be 8 wks old on Monday. Their food consumption is hard to guess because they are in...

Last year supposed to get 25 meat birds for 8 weeks. Over two hundred birds and 17 breeds have called my coop(s) their home...current count 105 (but meaties have their visit to mr plucky set soon).

Lacey blue.....now that I see these photos I definitely have andalusians.