I know that there are folks Far more advanced than we are at making homegrown ( backyard crosses) meat birds. The idea here is to have a place to document my DD's hatching and growing experience with our backyard mix birds and how she does taking them to our local county fair.
Howdy folks!
I have been having trouble keeping track of where I have posted and where I have not in response to hatch a longs, so I have decided to create a thread where I can (hopefully) keep a running dialog going about what is currently hatching. I have 4 (or 5?) incubators going for the...
I just started into my 3rd year hatching and decided that to compliment my hatching addiction I needed a plucker! After much hee and haw ing around I finally settled on the one with the biggest drum I could find, it promises to be able to handle "smaller" turkeys. this is is what arrived in the...
We designed and built the original coop complex in 2017, when we put up 2 10x10 coops that are split in half inside to make 4 separate chicken areas with 350 to 400 sq foot fully enclosed outside runs each.
2018 we built a turkey and duck wing. Earlier this spring we added 2 10x10 chainlink...
Tree beard happens to be the name of a Large white roo that was given to me over a year ago.... here he is with one of his Nn girlfriends fall of 17. We did a rough weight on him and at 14 pounds he weighs more than some of my turkeys!
We hatched out a batch from him and his Nn girlfriends...
I am currently looking into having my local feed store mix a custom blend chicken feed for me....
Right now I am looking at the following
535 pounds of wheat
200 pounds of purina acculine chicken premix
200 pounds of alfalfa pellets
50 pounds of oyster shell
15 pounds of limestone
As close as...
Ok I am still a novice here, I got my first Incubator in November of 2016 as a birthday gift. Of course the first thing I did was plug it in, insert eggs and then come to this site and start reading, I read most threads that I could find that pertained to incubation. I watched, lurked and read...
I decided on this incubator for the features it offers at a low price.... automatic egg turner, temperature and hydrogamer right on the front it even tracks the days. I also really like that it holds 56 eggs and has a built in candler. I was a little hesitant over the lack of reviews and the...