I don't think I'm going to like the answer to this. I've been feeding non gmo feed with fish meal. I did not notice this flavor in the young birds (6 week Cornish cross) but the old ones (16 week cornish cross- huge, I know) tasted pretty disgusting, very fishy. I feel really bad because I gave...
I've been gathering things for a whizbang style plucker and am trying to kind of make do with what is available without buying anything brand new. I have a 1hp 1725 rpm motor, a 2 inch drive pulley and an 11 inch driven pulley. If my math is right, that should gear it down to 313 rpm. Is that...
I've read that too much protein can cause pullets to start laying too young and possibly damage themselves, but if the goal is to breed for a fast growing bird I would think you have to use a high protein feed. Those of you actively breeding and working towards a goal, how do feed? Do you treat...
I'm curious because I'm rather limited for space, so if I could weed out the birds I don't need at an early age that would be nice. Has anybody noticed if there is a trend with the larger chicks actually ending up being the larger birds as adults?
Being that I currently rent I do not want to put up any permanent structures, but I definitely need to expand my run with spring coming. I have rolls of chain link and poles that were hack sawed from the concrete. Being that that is the case the poles are a bit shorter than I'd like.
Any ideas...
I'm not sure how much of a market there would be for them, but that's my current project. I have a Svart Hona roo and am ideally looking for cornish that carry fibro to get started.
Anyone else here working on fibro meat birds? If so, have you noticed a difference in flavor? Some people say...
Hi. I haven't been on here in years, was previously DAnver_Queen or some variation of that, lost my login info though. College forced me out of chickens for a while, thus my hiatus.
Currently I have 1 lonely Svart Hona cockerel. Would love to get back into Belgians some day as they are my...