Posts by PotterWatch

Full body pictures would be better.  I still think it could be a pullet, but that is mostly based on feather coloring rather than comb and wattle development.  I had a BR hen that looked like that at 5wks as far as the comb...

I think it looks more like a pullet.

That's funny that you are thinking of Hawaii.  My parents went back and forth between Soldotna and Hawaii for several years.  They even had neighbors in Hawaii (they lived in between Hilo and Kona near south point), that were...

I think 4 & 6 are pullets and the others are cockerels.  I'm not as confident on #6 though, it could also be a cockerel.

I miss salmon fishing season.  I grew up in Alaska (Anchorage), and then later my folks lived in Soldotna for several years when my kids were little.  I really miss fishing on the bank of the Kenai where some friends...

Wow, $2 per bird is cheap!  I know a farm in Santa Barbara that raises meat birds but they don't do their own processing.  The place they use charges $5 per bird.  

Southern California is a difficult place to find someone to process chickens.  I saw an ad on craigslist a while back, but it may have been the person in Perris you are talking about.  We have been processing our own chickens...

We get ours from Welp.  We've had literally thousands of meaties from them.  

Guess I'm odd because that book creeped me out.  I don't like the Giving Tree either because of that rotten, selfish kid.