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    My own variety of meat birds

    Thank you everyone for the suggestions! I wouldn't mind losing the extra egg laying boys to learn the skill. I also cull them and pluck them, then give them to a lady that feeds them to her dogs who have a raw food diet, so if they perish they still have a similar fate. It would be a lot more...
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    My own variety of meat birds

    Found a few pictures to share. These were the Columbian Rock/Freedom Rangers, and the Columbian Rock/Dark Cornish. at around 2 months old.
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    My own variety of meat birds

    Wow, that's awesome. I will make a note on that for next year. I have learned that I do not like the taste of rooster lol. So maybe I will try to figure out how to caponize my egg layer boys to try to get some weight on them for processing. I'm feeling pretty fluid on all of my ideas, so I could...
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    Adorae’s Family Flock and Farm

    Oh, I had turkey's too. I might rehome the remaining turkeys. They eat a lot and are a giant pain in the butt to get to roost inside the coops. I hate running around in the dark and cold trying to get them inside. Here are the Marans I kept, in the lower left. my pretty splash Ameraucana. The...
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    Adorae’s Family Flock and Farm

    Oh wow. I've had a super busy late summer/early fall. I've been working on reducing my flock numbers for the winter. I'm keeping 11 girls, and my Whiting True Blue rooster. 3 Ameraucana, 2 Marans, 2 Welsummers, 1 mixed that I hatched this spring, and 3 older hens I got from my neighbor when...
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    My own variety of meat birds

    The Dark Cornish/FR were around the 4/5lb mark, the freedom rangers were the same weight, but a week or so younger, the biggest Columbian Rock/FR was barely 4lbs at over 14 weeks, but very boney. I sold the rest as live birds because they were so scrawny, I figured the girls would be big, but be...
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    My own variety of meat birds

    Wrapping up everything. I'm sorry about the lack of updates, life got really busy. So my results of the Freedom rangers, dark cornish, and columbian rock were pretty conclusive. Even though the freedom rangers were hybrids, they continued to the grow the fastest and filled out nicely. The Dark...
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    calling any one from missouri

    I'll get some pictures this weekend, I just paid my credit card bill and finally admitted that I'm spending way too much money on chicken feed. lol..
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    calling any one from missouri

    I need to work on downsizing my flock a bit. Chicken math got the best of me. I have no problems getting rid of the boys, but I would hate to cull a pullet. Is there anyone in the Columbia area looking to get more birds?
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    Adorae’s Family Flock and Farm

    Just a couple of fun pictures. This was a nice evening and everyone was out enjoying the treats I threw out for them. A group of very confused pullets. I've lost 21 chickens to the raccoon in the last few weeks. I've finally decided to use poison because the live traps aren't working. I'm...
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    My own variety of meat birds

    So my Sister and I worked on my mixed boys that were hatched at the end of February, 16 total. They were all roughly 18 weeks older. One was a Ayam Cemani that had a huge amount of leakage, the other larger black one was a "pullet" Mystic Onyx from Tractor Supply. All the weights ranged from...
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    calling any one from missouri

    Wow, I did not know that. I will have to look at the thermometer I have in there, it keeps track of the Temp and humidity of the last 24 hours. If it doesn't work in the coops with the extra humidity, then I'll let my husband use it in the shop.
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    My own variety of meat birds

    The Bresse were hatched March 18th, so they were a day shy of 13 weeks old. I did not finish them in specific way, they just got to be in a chicken tractor starting at around 7? weeks and were fed broiler feed.
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    Adorae’s Family Flock and Farm

    Oh wow, been a while again on an update. Lots of stuff has been happening. Processed all but 1 Bresse cockerel. Finished the pens in the Blue shed. Moved all the chicks from brooders into 2 new pens. Dealing with a raccoon problem. They somehow got into my adult coop and killed 4 broodies and...
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    My own variety of meat birds

    I forgot to mention I will be processing a bunch of mixed cockerels this weekend, They were hatched at the end of Feburary, so they will be roughly 18 weeks old. I'll do another photo shoot with them and present them as a comparison.
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    My own variety of meat birds

    Getting this thread updated. Been pretty busy with everything going on. Harvested the Bresse on June 15th. I did not get live weights, but we did get carcass weights. 1.942+2.156+3.051+2.925+2.025+3.091+2.330+2.154+3.164=22.838/9 = average 2.537lbs We had the water get too hot for the first 2...
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    calling any one from missouri

    yeah, I had a fan in there too, and I'm working on getting a swamp cooler out there, but teh shed they are penned in doesn't have good air flow even with the doors open, so I need to fix the ventilation issue at the top of the shed, I'm actually going to be doing it to all my chicken sheds. I...
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    calling any one from missouri

    Now that this heat wave broke, I need to start freezing corn for the chickens to throw out there in the morning. The free range birds do okay, but my orpingtons are struggling in the heat. I'm gonna try to fix the air flow in their coop so that it's not so bad until they have access to their run.
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    Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

    I'm dealing with that right now, it seems like 1 in particular hates the chicks and has killed 3 and injured another 3. I'm going to be trying to separate them next weekend, but I have a trip this weekend.
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    calling any one from missouri

    Do you plan to get anymore chickens this year?
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