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  1. Jeff Mayfield

    GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

    I read the entire thread and ordered the tools thank you Poco Pollo. I plain on using caponizing as a tool to become breeder that will help protect the heritage breeds by breeding quality birds and raising my culls for freezer camp. I think the breed I will raise is orpintons. Thank you...
  2. Jeff Mayfield

    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    How should I go about finding the right genes? Most of the people I've talked with say to buy layers for eggs and crosses for meat but I would like to raise old school general purpose meat and egg birds. I've read about many of the breeds and like the orpingtons as they are friendly larger egg...
  3. Jeff Mayfield

    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    When do you think they'll be ready? I am really wanting some brooded by a hen could you put some eggs under a couple hens? Chicks hatched out under a broody hen tend to be more broody. I don't want to use a incubator.
  4. Jeff Mayfield

    The Middle Tennessee Thread

    I'm looking for some orpington straight run chicks. What I'm wanting is a meaty duel purpose bird from a broody mother hen. I'd like to get around 15 chicks for under $50. I would like to let the hens brood 4 or 5 batches each year. I've been looking at hatchery chicks but I would like to...
  5. Jeff Mayfield

    New member from TN

    I'm about an hour and half south of Nashville. Are your eggs being brooded or incubated? How much are you asking?
  6. Jeff Mayfield

    More chicks

    #8 is cute.
  7. Jeff Mayfield

    New member from TN

    I didn't like hard boiled eggs before I had these now I've got to watch I don't eat to many of them. I ate a dozen in an hour and thought if I keep this up I'm going to get fat.
  8. Jeff Mayfield

    What is the Earliest or Funniest Thing You've Learned About Chickens in the Last 7 Years?

    The fact that chickens don't wander very far. I thought they might just leave like a cat or dog but no you can't even chase them out of my yard. Free range tree roosting birds that lay eggs right in the basket I set up for them got to love these birds. One of them decided to climb up to...
  9. Jeff Mayfield

    signature

    I am a member of one other forum about Goldwings so I thought search for why I can't edit my signature. I am getting this message "You are not permitted to edit this signature." I Guess I have 23 more post to get to edit mine.
  10. Jeff Mayfield

    New member from TN

    Hi all I started raising 25 black/red sex links last year for eggs and meat they were $1 each as chicks. One of them looks like a barred rock rooster. I kept 5 hens and the rooster over the winter but lost 2 due to a stray dog. I built a pen for them for when they were small. The 3 hens and...
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