Recent content by loudnerd

I have done it with a few of my chickens from last year and it worked great. I skinned the birds and fleshed as much fat as I could off the skin and then tacked it feathers side down to a board and liberally covered it with borax. If the borax looks slimy at all scrape it off and add more until...

I was planning on hatching around the first of April and then let them free range most of the summer and process them for their feathers and meat just before the snow falls here in late October to early November to give them some time to develop their feathers to a good fly tying length. Thanks...

I started to hatch my barred rock eggs and plan on selling the pullets and raising the cockerels for meat and fly tying materials. I plan on skinning them to keep the feathers but I had the same plan last year but we ended up selling all the Roos to keep their own flocks right before I was going...

Thanks everyone! I just put my order in yesterday for 75 meat birds which is ironic since we got a foot of snow last night.

I have a small farm in Western Maine where my wife and I are raising our two young boys. We currently have horses, goats, rabbits and around two dozen barred rocks that we are using as our laying birds. We are actually just putting our first batch of eggs in the incubator this weekend with plans...