As soon as I am out the door all my "babies" come running. I am mom since they imprinted on me after they arrived from the hatchery. They are worse than dogs following me around the yard/garden. I will not wear painted toe nails or open shoes around them!! They are Broad breasted whites (for...
Yet again the Jumbo Cornish X after moving the tractors, hauling feed and water in the Southern heat (heat index of 105 today!)are well worth the effort as we processed 13 more this morning.In the past few days we have put up a total of 45 out of 80.Made chicken stock too. Another member on here...
Here are a few pics of my babies that started hatching last night! These were silkie, Easter eggers and mutt eggs I threw in the bator. More are hatching!! Woohoo!!
Today I dressed out 12 out of 27 extra Orpington roos. They were 24 weeks old. Beautiful skin and meat. A little harder to defeather since they are not built like the Cornish X's. I was still overall impressed with this dual purpose breed. They dressed out between 4 to 6 pounds each. Going to...
After seeing chickenzoos post on her newly hatched goslings I ran out and grabbed 12 of our Pilgrim eggs, some are from a Sebastopol female I have also. They are huge! I am putting them in the bator today! This will be my first goose eggs to incubate !!!This site is such an enabler!!!!
Lots of snow the last 2 days. Thought I would take a few pics around here of my babies; some were not quite sure what to do. One of my polish hens kept flying off the ground!!
It has been so nasty here in Arkansas either rain or ice/snow. The grounds have not been dry since October. I went out and took a few pics of some of my birds today and rarely see any Crevecoeur pics so thought I might share. Sorry the hen pics are not better, everytime I tried to take her pic...
Today here in Arkansas we have had ice, sleet, snow, etc. etc. My babies ( are all 10 months old now)have been loving this weather so much and I took a few pics of them in it today. The breeding season has started and one of my Pilgrim males has bonded with one of my sebastopol females so I am...
I would love to have a pic of this cross if anyone has one. I am interested in trying this cross for another meat bird. I really love my Dark Cornish and the Dorkings have a wonderful history as well. THANKS!!!!
If anyone has a pic I am curious what the cross will be. I ended up with 3 WLRC hens and I already raise the Dark Cornish and wanted to cross. Thank you so much!
I have been meaning to document a picture week by week of their rapid growth and finally got around to it. I will continue to post pics as they grow. Enjoy!
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I am selling off my extra spring chickens. These are beautiful hens and are 6 months old; some may be laying now. All are $10 each: 7 Rhode Island reds, 2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 barred rocks, 3 white leghorns; 1 TRIO White Laced Red Cornish $30, 3 rare French Creveceour Roosters $6 each or take all...
Dora was hurt a couple of years ago in a fight and ended up with a head injury and is blind in her left eye with limited vision in her right eye.She will bump the feeder and water to find it. At feeding time I would just put her inside the feed bin while I did other chores to make sure she got...
We used our apple slicer/core to slice our pears before we canned them. Saved LOTS of time too. Thought I would pass this on if anyone had not thought to use it !!!!