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Hello everyone. We headed down to Monterrey Mexico for 5 days, death in my wife's family side. Left my dad in charge of the house, birds, and bator. Poor old man had to do the egg turnings, feed the chickens, and did security. Arrived today and everything was OK!!!!! Even found 7 babies on the...

I don't think it's revenge of some sort. They didn't come to kill my birds, they were going to burglarize but my neighbor stopped the attempt but the front gate was again left open as they sped away and the **** stray dogs came in and did their thing.

So this morning we headed for breakfast me and my family and then headed to church, before we left I went ahead and opened the coop for the birds to free range. While arriving to church I received a call from my neighbor telling me that he had been trying to contact me more than an hr ago (had...

A couple weeks ago while out of town our house got burglarized. No problem our house is insured so we're good. What ****** me off was that our main gate was left open and a gang of stray dogs raided my coop and killed over 100 birds I hatched in the month of Dec as a meat bird project. This...

Ok, before I start let me clarify that I'm no meat bird expert. I was trying to breed a sustainable meat bird until my coop was raided by some stray dogs but here are the weighs of my surviving 8 of 5wks and 4wks. 5 wk old 1.9 lbs 5 wk old 1.6 lbs 4 wk old 1.3 4 wk old 1.5 4 wk old 1.3...

Lol....you are right, this will be the LAST TIME ill have this crosses to compare with!!! Thanks to my dad. I wanted all to be DC crosses and my old man added the RIR's and BO to the mix and didn't know about it until the damage was done. On the plus side is what you said of having them for...

Its possible, he (appears to be a male) is growing fast as the DC cross, out of the 8 survivors he is the only BO cross. At first I thought the reds I have were probably BO/Madisons but my dad told me he added a couple of RIR females to his flock that he took care for a cpl of weeks for a friend...

In my thread Meet My Meat Birds I've been asked about the term I used of "double breast" of what it means, so here is the explanation I gave since I've used that term here as well. The term double breast I got it from another member in one of my meat bird threads. I was referring my meat...

I'll be hatching more of my meat birds. Dark Cornish/Madison Cornish/White Plymouth Rocks. Need to get more meaty birds to choose from for next crossing this year.

Thanks. Started thinking how this could of happened and I figured this could of been the cause. When I was asked by other members "Who knew you were going out of town?"

I just candled the 24 eggs on bator, today is day 3 and got 18 left 3 infertile and 3 with thin crack. Hopefully ill be setting another dozen on Monday.

Thanks @generaldsherman, that would be great. I can send you some of my meat crossings also if you're interested.

I think I kind of messed up in this by letting everyone know that we were heading out of town on Facebook plus all our info is there also!!!! We sold a litter of Shi Tzu puppies on our local FB marketplace providing our physical address if anybody was interested......arggghhh ....feel such an...

@DwayneNLiz @Jessimom @generalsherman @penny1960 @Wickedchickens6 and everybody else not mentioned, thanks. Here a couple of pictures of the survivors of my coop slaughter. 4 week old females of my Dark Cornish/Madisons 3 week old I'm all excited about this cross. Check their double...

Thanks. Material things can be replaced. We have our house insured and I already called to have an adjuster to come and receive a police report sometime next week. What hurts is loosing all my birds. Gotta start from scratch again and yes that Cornish Male is beautiful, he hasn't matured yet. If...

Not a good way to start 2017!!! Me and my family headed to Houston for the weekend visiting my older son and our house was burglarized. They took all tv's and electronics from the inside and from the outside was the weedeater, lawnmower, air compressor and my SPORTSMAN CABINET INCUBATOR!!! To...

Total of hatch of 40 eggs screwed by cold front and power outage during lockdown that were supposed to hatch on the 8th but delayec two days was 15 chicks. 1 died yesterday with intestines hanging out, 14 remained but three look weak maybe won't make it till the morning. Ill remove tomorrow and...

Collected some old wood yesterday from an alley and am building an A-Shape coop/tractor for my meat birds.

Just got home and checked the sportsman to check the chick with its intestines out and he died, it was obvious he wouldn't make it, but then again another dc/wpr chick hatched and looks fine plus a bunch of eggs with pips and zips!!!! Looks like ill get some chicks after all not the 40 but at...

Two chicks have hatched today. One looks fine but the second one has his intestines outside. This **** cold front and last nights power outage messed up my final hatch during lockdown of 40 eggs. Gonna give them one more day and call it quits till spring. Lesson learned, next time ill add a...