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Quote: I think I have 1 Johnny Gray mixed in with my batch. He's looking good. I think you'll enjoy working with S and G. They're good folks. I'll try to snap a picture of him tonight and post it. I have to post my weekly update anyway...

Sorry for the gap in updates... It's been 2 weeks since my last update but here it is. Week 3: Lost 1 more bird. We're down to exactly 100 birds. Not sure why it died but it just dropped dead. It was weird. I had 1 bird that must have sprained it's leg. It was having trouble standing and...

They're 250 watt bulbs so I was hoping that they'd stay a bit warmer. I'll take the advice and move them closer. I've still got 102 happy healthy chicks. I live down in the south so, the weather is fixing to turn to spring. This is an unseasonably cool snap. Folks around here have already...

I am sad to say that we lost one of the smaller birds today. We had a cold snap and the birds piled up on each other and I believe that one of them smothered. If the cold continues, I will separate them into smaller groups to keep them from smothering each other.

Some great information here...That's where I got my idea for my Growout Journal https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=122611&p=1

Chicks at 2 weeks of age: I am 4/5 of the way through my 2nd 50 lb bag of feed. They're growing like little weeds. We've had a bit of a cold snap here in north Georgia. The chickens are in a pile under the heat lamps to stay warm.

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I am starting this Journal already 2 weeks into the project. I will use this post to re-cap the first 2 weeks of the project. After a great deal of searching I found a small, relatively local, hatchery that really interested me named S and G Poultry. They raise and breed chickens called Dixie...

Breed: 100 Dixie Rainbow Chickens from S and G Poultry in Clanton Alabam. Goal: Raise 100 Dixie Rainbow broilers to market weight in 12 weeks on only plant protein and no antibiotics. Method: Movable Chicken Tractor Measuring 10'X12'X2' (Joel Salatin's Method) Feed: Purina Mills Flock Raiser...