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  1. shadowmane

    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    6712 + 22 + 37 ____ 6771 edit: plus the post above, that was posted while I was doing my calculations.
  2. shadowmane

    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    7 Silver Laced Wyandotte hens, 7 Easter Egger Hens, 1 Red Sex Link Hen, 2 Rhode Island Red Roosters, 2 mixed chicks = 24 chickens 6688+24=6712
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    New Roos!!!

    An update on this. I let them out of their respective corners towards afternoon yesterday. There is a truce between the roosters. There are 20 hens to share between them, which is why we got two to begin with. We have about an acre and a half for them to roam in our back yard, so space is...
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    New Roos!!!

    Well, I put my two new roos in the coop last night. I've had them in lock-up where they can see the hens, but not contact. Last night, I put them in with the hens, then let them out this morning. I went in the house for a while, and when I come back out, there was a battle going on. They...
  5. shadowmane

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    Mostly negative research. My wife is dead set against any and all soy. Therefore, we buy feed without the soy in it.
  6. shadowmane

    Mt. Healthy Hatcheries Red Rangers

    Yes, they're on ice for a few days. After that, we'll put them in the freezer. We're butchering two more this morning after the wifie gets up and has breakfast.
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    Mt. Healthy Hatcheries Red Rangers

    Well, all I had to weigh them on was some bathroom scales, so it wasn't quite accurate. They were around 7lbs before slaughter, and they were around 4 to 5 lbs after slaughter. We had to pluck by hand. We don't have a plucker. We used vinegar bottles as the cones. The reason we did only 2...
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    Mt. Healthy Hatcheries Red Rangers

    Thanks. We plucked them. It was quite easy to pull the feathers off without breaking the skin.
  9. shadowmane

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    I just butchered two of them raised on fermented feed. I can't wait to taste them. I have 9 more waiting in the wings. It wasn't too bad for my first time killing a chicken.
  10. shadowmane

    Mt. Healthy Hatcheries Red Rangers

    Well, I butchered two of the roosters today. They both weighed in around 7lbs live. After all was said and done, I had a couple of 4lb birds to go in the freezer. 2 down, 9 to go. It took us 2 hours from start to finish. This was my first time ever doing it. I had to cut the first one...
  11. shadowmane

    First Egg... laid in the middle of the coop...

    Okay. I just went out and put her in the nest box. She laid this first one in the evening. I don't know if she'll be laying all her eggs in the evening though. I really don't know how long this egg was in there, as I worked today and my wife took care of the chickens.
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    First Egg... laid in the middle of the coop...

    Okay, so granted, I just got the nest boxes set up this week. They've been hung for weeks, but I haven't had them set up for the pullets. Now, we had our first little pullet egg, and it was laid right in the middle of the door into the coop. Now my question is... will she figure out what the...
  13. shadowmane

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    If you are feeding chick starter, that gump would be the chick starter. If you are feeding whole grains, then I can't help you.
  14. shadowmane

    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    I usually go 50/50, but I got that ratio from someone else in the FF thread in the meat bird forum.
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    FERMENTED FEEDS...anyone using them?

    It shouldn't be a problem. The feed I'm using now has molasses in it. You just put the UP ACV in it and let it brew a couple of days. Beekissed uses a double bucket method and uses whole grains. Up till now, I've used starter/grower for the meat birds, and starter/grower mixed with scratch...
  16. shadowmane

    Red Laced Cornish X and project talk (pics p. 8)

    I have 7 Americaunas/Easter Eggers. They are all pretty chatty with me. The Wyandottes I have boss them around. I don't have a rooster, though, so I can't speak to that. Mine were flighty as chicks, but now they follow me into the coop when I go to feed them. They don't like being held, though.
  17. shadowmane

    Fermenting Feed for Meat Birds

    I think I'm getting more earwigs than flies. Though I have opened the trash can and had a swarm of tiny flies fly out.
  18. shadowmane

    Red Rangers - 8 weeks - live weight 4 to 6.25 pounds - thoughts??

    Try S&G. They're Gulf Coast, but its Alabama.
  19. shadowmane

    We think this a Easter Egger Roo. what do you think?

    That's got to be a cockerel. I have some that are 13 weeks old, and none of them have that red a comb, or even one as developed as that.
  20. shadowmane

    What breed is Suzie?

    Okay, just so you know how she feathered out, I have an updated picture or two of Suzie. She has since lost the two feathers that were sticking up. And just for good measure, here's a picture of the whole flock at sunset waiting to go in the coop.
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