If I remember correctly a straight run batch of fifty was a batch of forty by the time they were big enough to butcher the extra roosters. At first we were finding skeletons and thought we had a predator problem, pulled them out of the tractor they were in, put them in a more secure location and...
The dorkings are only about ten weeks old, so I don't know where they will work themselves in. They think they are top dog right now because they have the run of the place with their mama, who is a large oriental game and she doesn't tolerate anything resembling bullying her babies. I have lots...
EE's timid? Some of the most sadistic and viscious chickens I have ever owned have been EE. That is really saying something because I raise Asils, Ga Noi and American Games.
I like raising the games for broodies. I keep them in their own little pens, I let them raise the first brood of...