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My Wyans didn't start laying till a full 7 mo+ - slow the whole way. For all that they were intened as an inprovement on the Brahma as a DP bird, I've got to say I'm unimpressed. Only good thing I can say about mine is that they are very predator aware.

Its rare that I find legislation that makes sense as a cohesive policy. Why whould this be any different?

Live traps. The neighbors dogs are trained hunting dogs, and I am fond of my cat

Traps set - one on either side of the pasture. Using sprats as bait - should be a strong enough odor to distract from my own (wore a fresth set of gloves to minimize human smell transfer as I assembled. Worried I may still end up with my cat in one of these, but otherwise... Fox, bobcat, or...

Cooking method is the determining factor, not weight. But yes, your math is right. If the growth is slowing markedly, take the bird now. If its still putting weight on at a good clip, and you don't need something close to supermarket tender, give it another two weeks and reconsider.

Study here. https://projects.sare.org/wp-content/uploads/Foothills-Farm-study_Full-report.pdf Would like to see that in a larger study. Some of the results don't make sense, and may be an artifact of the nature of scratch & pck whole grain feed itself (as the study authors concede.) Its also...

Carcass weight is usually about 70-74% of live weight. . Meat yield is usually around 70% of that.

No trail cameras, and yes, I most definitely have a fox. In the opposite direction. Buying, and baiting, two traps...

I've found some deer scat, and some hog signs, but nothing that resembles dog or cat droppings inside the electric. So, that's not a hard "no", its a "not a certain yes". Its certainly possible. Though we are high ground and not densely vegetated, there is plenty of swamp nearby. I did think...

Best guess, the attacks are occuring after true dusk, or between false dawn and true daylight. But that's PURELY a guess on my part.

I'd like to read that study. It seems *unlikely*, given the margins in the egg business. If rate of lay could be improved 10% by fermentation, then every egg laying commercial operation would be doing it. Historically, they operate at margins under 7% - having 10% more product for the same...

Have not heard them in months. Lost another bird in the last 12 hours. Several piles of feathers. Whatever it was had to drag a 4# +/- hen, couldn't carry it. I found the initial attack site in the pasture, another puff of feathers in the pasture, a third as it hit the tree line, lose the...

That is both remarkably pragmatic and remarkably accurate. Which is why this is a culling project, not a breeding project. :)

The darkest two birds are just getting darker - so one stays on the cull list, one is added to it. Lightest bird is showing some markings, were I expected essentially none, so it comes off the cull list. 12 in the incubator, candled two days ago, progressing fine-ish. Questioning a couple...

More crimson than desired. Not Patterned as desired. And yet, this might actually work on my property (which is the ultimate goal, regardless of pattern).

Five weeks. Best of the batch, in terms of color and pattern.

Is what BYC is for. Happy to help.

Missing another turkey this AM. Just spent 40 min walking the pasture and surrounds, no sign of it.

as in Stuckey's Bar B Q, Stuckey?

Don't ask me, I have almost no sense of taste...