Thank you for the reply. That's good info. The inconsistent growth rates may not be a problem for me. But depending on how much the variance is, it might. It's certainly not ideal. I'll probably give it a shot anyway. If I do, I'll be sure to share the results.
So I have raised some heritage breed chickens for meat. I learned a lot from that, but mostly I learned that until I am much better at it, I don't want to do that again... the meat was WAY too tough. There was not nearly enough breast meat and it cost way to much to feed them for how much meat I...
My wife got some of these when we had an excessive peckcing problem with quite a few of the ladies. (We probably should not have mixed some of the breeds that we did...) She put these on and it helped tremendously. She ended up taking them off but they did not resume pecking. Every so often, she...
Hello,
My name is Richard. My family and I are early in our chicken raising/breeding process.
1) We are in our 2nd year raising chickens. We got our first chickens on 7/2/2020 from Murray McMurray Hatchery
2) We had about nearly 60 hens and a couple of roosters. The other day we rehomed 10...