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    My Attempt at a Dual Purpose Heritage Flock

    Your welcome... my Noll NH's are in the brooder now and I will be following the instructions I was given and we will see how it works out...
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    Heritage breed that has a decent amount of breast meat?

    That is not true... those are pure american NH bred by Henry Noll for over 60 years... He started with an all American line and has selectively bred his line for meat as it was intended.. Henry is or was an awesome breeder, he is an amish farmer and Henry sold his genetics through Moyer's Chicks...
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    My Attempt at a Dual Purpose Heritage Flock

    I have the same birds both NH and Dels... if you ordered them both from FR Hatchery then they are both of Henry Nolls line... I talked with Henry over a year ago about doing this exact thing with breeding.... I just wasn't set up to take on the NH at that time, now I have set up to see how it...
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    New Hampshires from Freedom Ranger Ranch

    Any updates on your NH flock... Did you ever breed and hatch any eggs from them?? Henry stated that to get eggs from them regularly they had to be fed on a restricted diets 18% grow out and 16% as adults or they get too fat and won't lay.... have you found this to be true??
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    Mine lay very nice large eggs and the yolk is super creamy and sticky... best eggs I've eaten so far... everyone I have given eggs too has said they are some of the best they eaten...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    Sorry not been updating, didn't seem to be much interest... They started laying at 5 months old... Really good lay production, they laid in the 80% until big heat wave came thru this past summer... went from mid 70's to over 100 overnight... lost rooster and some hens... was able to get more...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    Wk 12 (Day 84) weigh-ins... My FCR @12 weeks is 3.37 lbs of feed per 1 lbs of live body weight gained... So far have gone thru 1,445 lbs of feed in 84 days... Out of 52 cockerels.... 6 cockerels @ 12 weeks weighed over 2400 grams (5.3 lbs) that where worth growing out to 9 months... 1 was...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    11 wks old in these photos... 104 chicks delivered and I weighed out 100 chicks on week 6... I was very pleased with the mortality rate... I was able to tell sex at wk 6 with very little problems... At start of wk 3, I started to ferment all their feed and they love it and are gaining nicely and...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    Chicks arrived and I wasn't ready for them, so into tubs for their 1st week... About 5 days later they got moved out to the brooder... used a 2ft x 4ft Ohio brooder with 2-3" of wood chips on top for insulation... The floor started out about 4" deep in fir shavings... Also put up a divider to...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    I fell for them once I learned their history and how great they were... We bought 100 straight run chicks... I live W. Washington...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    These pictures are of today but show the chicken shed done... A 50ft x 20ft run is attached to the rear of shed using 4ft Tall Redbrand 4" square Goat fencing...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    Here it is September 6th and chicks are due on the 10th and I've gotten started on the chicken building... This design came from this old article from the early 1900's... The scratching shed poultry house... Its 10ft W x 18ft L... 6ft H in rear and 8ft H in front... It has 2 rooms inside... 8ft...
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    A Delaware Starter Flock Journey

    I'm a little late posting as chicks are 13 wks old now... I will post what I have from beginning to present day, then continue on from then... I love reading old books and well I got reading old poultry farming books pre 1950's... I found it so fascinating at what was being achieved in these...
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    New Member

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes... September 2020 (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 45 (3) What breeds do you have? Delaware (4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? So far the entertainment value
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