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Does anyone know where I can order 30-40 poults this week? All the places I called will not have them till end of August or are sold out. Thanks!

Thanks for the detailed info, AbbyDog. What kind of organic feed did you use? Soy free or not?

From my experience the live to dressed ratio is: Live minus 1 lb Then x 80%

Keep it going! Can we all get an update on your soy free freedom ranger affair?

Kizanne I love reading your posts, especially your experiments. Inspired by your winter experiment we are raising CornishX with Countryside Organics soy free feed & additional meal worms (freeze dried). Our results aren't as good as yours were at this point, but we're not done yet. I wonder if...

What was the "starter froom SS"?

The research was done in other countries, other continents where the grains are of different source, differen breeds, and I could not find exact information about the effect of the protein level. Still - I keep an open mind and can't wait for your results.

Do you use warm or cold water? Pouring warm water daily around the eggs (I use a Hova Genesis) helped me get to the 79-83% humidity. Hope I helped. Good luck!

These chicks don't look like Cornish Rocks at 2.5 weeks. I don't know what red pullets are, but I also do not see red. Hopefully they are pullets. Keep on posting pics as they grow.

26 eggs

I have the Kitchen Aid Pro 5 qt bowl. I have the meat grinder & plan on buying the sausage maker attachement. Since I cook & bake a lot it is used a few times weekly and is well worth the price.

Looks like it. Hubby is building a large storage room near the new coop. He'll finish it tomorrow so we can transfer the sick ones there, hopefully in time to avoid spreading it. Thanks!

These are 3 different pullets. We have a large coup with about 160 3+ months old chickens who free range during the day in a very large (bout 1/4 acre) fenced yard we closed for them. about 110 are pullets, the rest are (will be) roosters. The problem is with 10 of them. We also see that some...