these are gorgeous!
I never was one for Turkens, but I picked up three pullets that just started laying. They'd been in a. Large mixed flock, and had been exposed to a rooster. I. Collected the eggs for a week and set them. At a week, all are showing swimmers. I am excited to see what...
I purchased a dozen WLR Cornish (Standard) eggs from a BTC forum member a little over 3 weeks ago..
(I received 14)..
Starting last night, I had 10 hatch out of the 14... 2 were clear and 2, I don't know, Nice air pocket drawdown, but no real movement. I left them in today. Hopefully, there will...
That IS good news.... I might be buying a group from them in the near future.. It'll have to be after summer because it just gets so hot and humid here in south florida they don't do as well as in the spring or fall...
Hi, I came across an ad for Sand G in the Chicken Magazine... They have a good assortment of meat birds and all speeds of growth. Does anyone have any experience with them?
Thanks
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Here's our Chicken tractor... 1st pic is the frame. We built it out of electrical PVC 1 1/2" We used an old metal barrel filled with wood and paper and lit it. We used the hot sides to bend the top frames. We have 1" flight netting all around it. the one we just did have hardware cloth...
Joel Salatin talks about giving his birds Brewers yeast and seaweed paowder to increase the minerals and b vitas that they need to prevent leg trouble too
Funny,
The USDA and the FDA say they do food inspections on food that is SOLD to others to protect the consumer. However, you can do school/church bake sales or pot luck dinners and anybody can put anything in a pot or tray that won't be inspected and hundreds of people can be exposed to that...
Thank you, THANK YOU for sharing this older article with us. BYC has a wealth of information and it's sort of like the Smithsonian. You could spend a lifetime here and not see/read everything..
I say givie it a try. As you cut into it, take note if there was polling of blood at the joints or large muscles. This will let you know that they weren't bled well enough. Let us know how the brining works
This year, I am buying a group of straight run WLR Standard Cornish to go with my White Orpingtons.. I will be incubating my own and seeing how they turn out,. My hope is at about 20 weeks, they will have a good developed breast and good size, but still be active and not in dire need of being...
I look back decades ago when I gave away TONS of roos because they were annoying. NEVER then did it cross my mind to process them. I am kicking myself...BUt, no better time than the present to get educated...lol