Posts by JacobsRewardFarm

Awesome, guys - thanks for the input.  I'd love more EEs (I have 3 current layers that I love), although this should be a rooster, and that puts his destiny in peril.  We'll see how he grows up.  I'll check back in a month...

Hi all,Haven't posted in a while.  But that's good news.  Things have been going well.  I have 7 hens laying well, and 15 new girls, eight weeks old.But today I got my 7 Cuckoo Maran chicks from Ideal and of course, they...

I've been so busy since we finished our chicken processing that I haven't had time to report back and tell you all how it went.  We butchered 77 chickens, all told.  We did it on 3 Saturdays, a couple of weeks apart--25 or so...

Well, they're right.  It does get easier.  We did 25 birds in about 4.5 hours, so we didn't get much faster, but it was easier.  (I timed myself from the beginning of skinning to tossing into the cooler - 11...

Good work, homesteader!  Tomorrow my husband and I will try to improve our time (average 24 minutes each last time) because again, we have 26 or so to do.  The first batch was a group of 14 week old Delawares - the largest one...

Thanks, friends.  MissPrissy - I loved your story about the mean roosters!  I appreciate the encouragement.  I reminded my husband that it's the people who are willing to do what others won't, who get ahead.  Everyone...

Hey friends, we did it.  I'm still recovering, LOL.  We didn't get as early a start as I would have liked, but even with that, and a couple of interruptions, we were done and cleaned up by 3:30PM.  I used a cleaver to...

fowlfriends, my husband and I processed 26 birds yesterday and we opted for skinning.  I vacuum-packed them with my new Food Saver and it was as slick as a whistle.  Now, that was my first ever processing so I can't compare the...

I think I'm all set.  I've studied websites and videos and I've visualized and I've checked my list of supplies.  My husband says he'll help me (he can be a bit squeamish) and my daughter is at a friend's until...

My eight pullets were on probation up until recently.  Today, I got 5 eggs, and one of those is from one of my two adult birds.  So half of the girls are doing their job, but I'm still waiting on the other half.  Two...