Thank you everyone for your replies!! We successfully did it and the meat is absolutely beautiful! We ended up getting a giant cooler.. although we didn't need it at all lol our smaller one would of worked. We parted the birds out as we processed. Didn't even have to gut them! It was awesome...
This was my husband's idea too but he was thinking if he leaves the drain open and the ice on top that it would be fine..I'm assuming it would still absorb water that way right?
We are processing half (11) of our Cornish cross this weekend. This will be our first time ever. We are skinning then and plan to cut them in pieces. I'm wondering how we can rest the birds for the recommended 24-48 hours if we don't have room in the fridge? Letting them rest after we freeze...
I have an almost 5 week old Cornish cross chick that just started open mouth breathing, sneezing and stretching out it's neck and closing its eyes alot. It's stands hunched up and looks I'll. It's still eating and drinking but it's definitely a lot smaller than everyone else and my daughter just...
The infestation is definately gone! I got rid of the maggots the first time but the flies do keep bothering him so im trying to keep them away as much as possible. I thought he looked pretty good in his new attire as well!
Thank you! Haha there serving there purpose no matter how funny they look! He keeps picking at himself and making it bleed. Then it scabs over and gets nasty and I have to debride the wound 🤢
I'm so happy for you! It's been like a month and a half I believe since flystrike and my rooster is STILL healing! It's been rough but im not giving up on him. He acts perfectly normal..I just resorted to keeping my daughters old underwear on him lol
I can totally relate to you on this..nothing is going right here on my little farm I've created. I have a rooster "hopefully" healing from flystrike. Hes taking forever. I've just discovered what I expect to be bumblefoot on atleast 2 of my hens. A Turkey poult just hatched with a leg problem. A...
So I took the scabs off both her feet tonight and there was nothing underneath..one foot had absolutely nothing. The other has a very tiny bit of blood. Not even a drop. But there is nothing underneath for me to remove..is this normal? Is this still bumble foot? I checked another hen tonight and...
The black stuff is actually dead tissue and not blukote..its hard like a scab. I cant get penicillin here without a prescription so I'm probably gonna have to go with the fish mox
It seems like it's one thing after the other here..I've just posted about my rooster healing from flystrike. But I noticed yesterday I had a hen looking slightly uncomfortable while walking. Shes not totally limping but shes walking somewhat gingerly that I just barely noticed she was having a...
So my rooster had fly strike about a month ago. I got that all taken care of. Now I need to know what I should do with this wound that is taking forever to heal..its draining alot! The smell is also not so nice. I'm worried its infected. Hes acting totally normal but I want to get him back in...
I just saved one of my turkey poults I hatched out that developed wry neck at about 3 weeks old. I gave him nutridrench by mouth twice a day and then added it to their water as well. He got worse before he got better but it only took a few days for him to be back to normal. Cant even tell which...