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You are probably right Tailfeathers. For myself, it doesn't matter if there's a smidge of another breed mixed in there. I don't breed, I just like a variety of pretty colors in both my pasture and my egg cartons. But if I were to try to develop my own purebred strain of Welsummers, I wouldn't...

Quote: I think you're right. My neighbor's goat had triplets a few weeks back - ALL bucks!

Quote: That's encouraging! I just could not get mine to eat greens or veggies or anything. Even well chopped in the food processor. I tried everything, and it just drew (more) flies. I'm going to try again with the batch I just got today and try giving the greens before the feed too...

Quote: Oh yeah, now that Sneaky has a name, he's stuck with us. That crazy frizzle roo too - he's not going anywhere either. He's too fun to look at. Now that I'll have a few separate pens, the extra roos won't be too much of a problem.

Quote: Really? 3 weeks? Holy chicken! I had no idea they'd try so young. With all my other roosters, it seems like I was waiting and waiting and waiting FOREVER for them to crow. I know my rooster from last year was about 6 months before he finally crowed. Lucky for him, because he...

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Mine have always been around 6 months.

Quote: That's strange. Mine eat dandelions like they're candy.

Would you believe my not quite 8 week old Frizzle roo is trying to crow already? He is one cocky little cockerel too! He's always all puffed up and challenging the other chickens - even though he's smaller (and definitely goofier looking!) than most of them. I can see that that little bugger...

That is so incredibly cool! And I LOVE that it still works after all this time - in this day and age when you buy something and you don't even expect it to work tomorrow, let alone several decades later! That's a real treasure!

Good luck! I wish my girls would go broody, but nope. They have never been interested. Boogers!

Quote: I no longer remember where I heard/read it, but I'm going to experiment with it this time around. They will still have feed in front of them for a full 16 hours a day, and it might not cost me an arm and a leg (or a beak and a wing... ) to feed them around the clock. I think it's...

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Quote: Yes, and to get the pics to come out clear, there needs to be NO movement. Put the camera on a tripod and use the timer, and you can't hold the egg. It has to be set on your candler box. Good luck.

It's time to butcher them. They are just going to continue to die off otherwise. That's just the way it is with the meat birds. For the most part, they seem to be a little bit "touchier" than the layers anyway, but once they get to about 8 weeks, they start fading even faster to either heart...

Quote: No, a cornish is one breed. White rock is another. A cornish-x or a cornish-rock is a specialized cross between the two breeds (I think the cornish has to be the rooster if I remember right...). With specially selected birds, this cross produces birds for meat that grow at a...

Quote: No kidding! What a deal!

Thank you so much, but I was hoping for purebreds of one of those breeds. I can get some Rouens from my neighbor, which I really like too, but we thought it would be more fun to get something different. I appreciate the offer!

Quote: Mine would never eat grass, or any snacks of any kind. Just their feed. And my images of "free ranging" meat birds certainly didn't pan out. They sat in front of the feeders and never moved. When I removed the feeders, they sat down and waited until I returned them in the morning...

I'm pretty happy just dropping them off at the poultry processor's place and coming back in an hour or so to find them all bagged and ready to go. Worth EVERY penny to me.