Recent content by kelliott

6+ pounder dressed. I must admit, it was pretty darn good

Butchered a little over half of our 75 cornish -x broilers and noticed the following They stink when you scald them. About midway through I tried the old CSI trick and put vicks vapo-rub under my nostrils and that seemed to help a bit. Scalding was the trickiest bit. Too much scald and the...

40 to 50 of our broilers are ready for butchering. Wish me luck as this is the first time for me and I will be on the front end of the processing. We have 2 kill cones, a turkey fryer for scalding, a whiz bang clone chicken plucker (picked up off of craigs list for $200) After that, i get to...

sweet concept. I am going to subscribe to this post.

My wife keeps looking at the hatchery catalogs and telling me how she wants a mille fleur rooster, but the hatcheries have such bad examples of the species. Where can I find one that is the "perfect" specimen. Serves me right for marrying a former chicken show champion.

it does what it is supposed to do, and you cant argue with the price. Any chance you can post a picture/diagram of the drive train

can you post the link, I cant see the video on my computer

Ive got what may be a completely wacky idea. here's my thinking, bottom half of an electric water heater tank over a wood/charcoal burning fire. you could have an aquastat turn on a valve to let cold water into the tank whenever the temp exceeded a set point. You could also use the...

Thanks much, kinda what I figured. When we had the restaurant, Im the one who got to clean the fryers and the ice cream machine, so Im thinking I will be volunteered. Any advice about alergies?

Perhaps I should have labeled this thread "Marital Advice" as I am completely novice to chickens, but I have been reading as much as I can and have become interested about the benefits of deep litter. As a slight background My wife & I live in SW iowa. Me, a small town boy my whole life and...

Greetings from the Atlantic area. Is there anyone else from SW iowa?

Hello from Southwest Iowa. The wife & I are buying an acarage within the month and are looking forward to getting chickens