Several below have had problems with Hawks. This past summer I saw SOMEPLACE wind socks that looked like all kinds of birds. One was a big Bald eagle. These socks had wings that actually flapped in the wind if suspended from a tall flexible 'fishing pole'like rod. I am just wondering if any...
I have 3 spare black sex link pullets about 16 weeks old and ready to start laying. Raised with some I am keeping and bought as chicks from Strombergs. I am asking $8 dollars each. Respond with a PM to me here at BYC.
Also may have a few Red and Black sex links from last year. Laying well.
2 slow grow cornish and 1 red broiler. THe slow grows were slightly large than the Red Broilers. THe red broilers are about 2x the size at 8 weeks that the black and red sex link pullets I have that are the same age. Skinless, dressed and ready to fry up tomorrow on the 4th averaged a tad...
Anyone know of processors in East central Minnesota? Need not be commercial. Maybe someone with all the stuff that comes to you or I can haul birds to. I know there is one in Little falls and one in Denison but those are a hike and a half . I can do it myself but work is getting real...
OK we all know fresh eggs dont peel easily and I have tried a lot of different ways including many listed here. Most made it a little easier but the eggs still came out looking like a cellutite thigh. Sorry but it true right?
SO last night I tried something different. I boiled 4 fresh out...
Fist let me say I am NOT kidding here ok but I know it is hard to believe.
I have 8 sex link hens. Getting about 7 eggs a day. Moved the girls to a barn where deer I raise have access too. I installed sno fence infrom of the stock entrence door to keep the deer out. Girls been fine for...
So I get tired of filling quart jars with water for the new chicks and figure the 7 gallon waterer will be fine now. Fill it up and put it in the coop last night. This morning I come in and 4 inches of shaving are soaked. Seems the rubber gasket did not seal so 7 gallon water slowly leaked...
I tried some plain ole red broilers this year. At 2 days when they arrived, they were the same size as my sex link chicks that came with them. Now at 1 week some of the red broilers are about 2-3 times the size of the sex links. Will be interesting to see them as they progress and see how big...
Got my order yesterday from hatchery and I had 2 dead on arrival and one is is not the breeds I ordered. Bottom line I am short a couple pullet chicks. Anyone got any white or dark Rhode Island pullet chicks they can part with? Preferably in Minnesota and less than a week old?
Do you need to take feed away at night for slow grow cornish and red broilers like you do for the fast grow ones? I never heard of anyone doing so but....
Seems like every hatchery has a different name for their meat birds now a days...
So whats the difference between :
Black Broiler
Red Broilers
Cornish Cross Slow
Freedom rangers
Colored broilers
Cornish roasters, Etc.
Are they all just names for the same basic thing? A slower...
My dads hands have gotten arthritis and he can not handle a axe well anymore. This fall when we butchered a few roo's he came up with the idea of hanging the birds by poth legs from the tractor bucket (we dont have cones)and then he used a long handled pruning loper (anvil style) to do the...
Had MANY more than we can eat this year and some were not real ripe so I tried on on the hens yesterday. Split it with an ax and set it in there. Seeds and pulp went right away. Rest of the meat was hard as can be. Tonight it was all gone except the very outside of the skin. They loved...