Search results for query: *

  1. CostaRicaMark

    Free Ranging Meat Birds...tender or tough???

    I live in Costa Rica, so tropical environment. I've had a laying flock for a few years, and I am looking into having meat birds. The few times I've bought an "organic free range" chicken here, the meet was tough and there was very little breast meat. Now, I may have been given an older laying...
  2. CostaRicaMark

    Selecting fertilized eggs to increase present laying flock

    Hello all, I am writing as a first time possible " receiver of mail order fertilized eggs " person. Is that even a thing? I have some layers here, and need to have more, but the availability has dried up to buy them in my area. I would like to be able to raise some from chicks, as well as obtain...
  3. CostaRicaMark

    Rooster breed for reproducing more layers, important?

    I have a small flock of layers here in Costa Rica. For two years we've had no problems with predators, but lately that has changed. So now, we need to get a couple more layers to keep up with demand. We are back to locking them up at night, rather then leaving the small coop door open, so they...
  4. CostaRicaMark

    Peafowl in Costa Rica / Breeding Season????

    I have a question for this wonderful forum. I live in Costa Rica, and am fairly new to having peafowl. I am having a very hard time getting info specific to my part of the world, and peafowl. Here is my question: We have had a pair now since last August, and they are "supposed" to be of breeding...
  5. CostaRicaMark

    Mixing Layers with new Chicks in Costa Rica????

    Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, but I could not find the info if it has. I'm a newby, and we're doing well for the last few months. I'm in Costa Rica and have a small flock of layers. I need a few more, and my sources for more layers are all out. So, we "rented" a rooster, he...
  6. CostaRicaMark

    Free ranging layers and "meaties" together

    I have just layers right now, six of them, and I'd like to add a flock to raise for meat. I'm new to this. I live in Costa Rica, and I keep the layers in at night in their own coop, thay have a yard that they are let out into until later in the morning. I do this because a few of them don't lay...
Back
Top Bottom