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My mother's chickens are at my brother's farm. She lives in town and ever morning she has a problem getting out of her truck because the hens wait at the end if the driveway for her. Ever try getting out your truck with 40 chickens at your feet. Lol

I don't know if I could grow 2 gardens. But if I had the time, I think that's a good idea. Wouldn't take long for the chickens I have to destroy a garden.

I haven't payed attention to the name. I call them Cornish because I also raise Bresse chickens. But if someone said meat bird, I would know what they meant. I have noticed that when feeding a homemade mix that if you don't grind it the soybean meal is the last thing they eat. The more...

I shouldn't have used the word runt. This was the smallest and at 8 wks would still stand and walk around. She weighed 7lbs at 8 wks. the rest of the batch weighed 8 to 9 lbs. The plan is to breed with my white rocks and then line breed and keep the heaviest at 12 wks. My rocks are on average 3...

Your right. Feeding after 6 wks is a waste of feed. I get $2 lb for a butchered bird. I sell whole and cut 8 pc. My frozen, vacuum packed 8 pc. Weighs an average of 7.5 lbs. That's $15 to $20 a chicken. $1.80 for feed. I loose about 10% a yr. Some yrs more. I also raise them in cages. Much...

A Cornish cross at butcher, 8 to 9 wks., consumes .4 to .6 lbs of feed a day. With 300 and waste of feed it is about 300lbs. every day, 24hr. day. It takes 17 to 20 of feed to feed out a Cornish. Mine weigh 9 to 10 lbs.live weight and 7 to 8 butcher weight. It requires a ton of feed per 100...

My mix is on this feed. 3 elevators in Illinois list it as one of the mixed they have available. Some use different minerals than I do. My mix come from a chicken farmer who raised meat chickens in the 70's. Local grains are the only way to save. Shipping in grains from other states only...

Bag feed is 22¢ a pound. I have about 50 chickens at my place and feed 100 lbs. a wk. I raise 300 meat chickens a yr. Also sell Hatching eggs on eBay. A mill, that is a real mill sells a feed mix made from local grains. They all use the Pearson or a computer. Most ship their feed in. I have...

I just noticed, what are you feeding that has that high a crude protein. Most grains have only 6% to 10%. To use a game bird feed and mix in grains and soy, why??? Are these laying hens? Your wasting money. The 28% game bird feed has everything in it a show or game bird needs. You need to find...

Thats what I wanted to know. I have crosses from the roo with Australorp. All the chicks came out barred with solid black on winds and tail. I have 2 hens but are old have lost most of their barred coloring over last 2 molts. All the chicks I hatched from the trio that did not die before 14 wks...

Got a question. I was concerned that my Delaware rooster my have RIR in it. There are a handful of farms here in Illinois that use Delaware roosters over RIR hens for meat birds. I also have 2 chicks that my be crossed from my flock too. Is there a way to tell?

I worked in a mill and buy from a mill and deliver grain to a mill. Not all feed is computer mixed. Most Mills have already made feed mixures. Pearson's table or pearsons square, call it what you want. Oh and your math is wrong. Pearsons table or square helps you determine the mix of protein...

For all of you trying to figure protein levels in your feed. Do some research on Parsons Table. Its the only way to properly figure protein levels. All animal food goods are done using the table. Protein and grains Corn,wheat,oats,Milo are 4 grown in my area. The average protein of these mixed...

I'm hatching this cross this spring. I have 4 chicks now. 2 in pics and 2 a wk younger. In three days I will hatch about 6. (I hope) my plans are to cross one of these to a Delaware/ Australorp pullet I hatched last month. It is the bared chick pic. [/IMG][/IMG]