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Quote: ===== Do you have a pic of your $6 chicken plucker and notes on how you put it together? Couldn't find the post you referred to. Thanks. Here is the post I used - it was great! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5378195

Quote: Hi. It took about 3 hours to do 12, but we had to work up some nerve! Sealing and cleaning up took a little longer too. The fish cleaning station does fold up and you can remove the drain pieces so that you can clean them in the sink or dishwasher. I have it hanging in the garage...

Quote: Wow! Good Job! I agree with the distinctive smell...hard to get that memory out of my mind when I am cooking a chicken now.

Well, we did it! We have 12 cornish rocks resting in the fridge. My father in law did the actual killing - thank goodness! I couldn't do it face to face after raising them for the last few weeks! We used a big bleach bottle for a cone and used poultry shears for the beheading, because the...

Hi. Sorry I haven't updated. Our computer will only stay on for a few minutes at a time. My husband is going to install a new hard drive soon. Today is going to be the big harvest day. I was going to wait, but I lost one cornish hen yesterday and a couple others can't stand up today...

5 week update: Sorry this is late. I am slacking. I only weighed 3 of the cornish rocks and 1 red broiler. We are back to our normal Texas winter weather (60s-70s ), so I put them all outside to enjoy the grass and sunshine. I moved the 4 mystery roos into a chicken tractor with the 1...

Quote: Yep, that's what my 4 week old Cornish Rocks look like too...mostly naked on their body! I guess I can stand to look at them for a couple more weeks, then I know I can stand to see them as BBQ, rotisserie, chicken soup, chicken nuggets, etc etc

Quote: Hilarious! That is the weirdest pair of eggs I've ever seen

Quote: WOW! 9 pounds @ 9 weeks! That is great. I plan to get more meaties when it is warmer...if all goes well with the processing. It is the first time I will do all the steps. I helped my grandma catch, hang/drain & pluck when I was younger...but she did all the REAL dirty work. I am...

My original plan was to let them feather out in the garage and then put them outside, since Texas usually has a mild winter. We don't have that this year, so they have been in the garage most of the time. We have had a few warm 60-70s days, so they have been outside during the day. I bring...

4 week update: We had a light dusting of snow Friday with temps in the upper teens - they called off school Thursday afternoon (before any precipitation) since snow is such a rare thing for us! The joke's on them! All 20 chicks are doing fine. With our "severe" weather, we had rolling...

Three week update - all 20 chicks are doing well. The temp has in upper 20s/low 30's at night. The chicks are still in garage with heat lamps. It was 60 yesterday so I took 10 chicks outside to experience grass. I said they were going to recess! LOL They all pecked at the grass & leaves...

Sorry you lost one (who died before, an EE?). Forgot you lost an extra roo the first week...sorry

Quote: Sorry you lost one (who died before, an EE?). I lost one of the new banties. But so far so good with the meat birds. They are all in the garage with their heat lamps and hanging cages so the house doesn't smell anymore! Having the manure go through the cage & to the plastic on the...

Week 2 photos. I bought a small kitchen scale to weigh them so that the growth is easier to keep track of. I only took a few out to weigh them, but I tried to pick different sized cornish for variety. This is my week old bantam for scale Also a week old EE for scale Cornish 1...

6chickens in St. Charles : Call Me Chicken, a 10 minute portion of film about Liza the Silkie hen and her encounter with a you-know-what! Have you seen this? Yes, I have seen that show on PBS. It's very cute. That's the first thing I thought of when he ran away from the hawk. You can...

When my husband got home from work, he called me to come out because a red tailed hawk was in the field with fluffy white feathers all around it. He wanted me to see what had killed my silkie roo. I brought my camera for some reason. I took a photo, and then to my amazement, the roo ran away...

Quote: Your daughter's hands put the size differences into perspective better than my photos did. Next week I'll have my girls hold them for me. I bought 5 americanas and 5 ? bantams at the feed store yesterday...counldn't resist them ...the Cornish are so huge compared to those sweet...

One Week Old update I still have 20 healthy chicks. They are in the house since it is still too cold in the garage. I moved their wire bottom cage into the living room and put it on plastic sheeting so that it is easy to clean. They were getting too dirty in the box. I took some photos to...

Cool. It would be fun to see your chicks too, since they are the same age and from Ideal. Feel free to post them on here if you want...just for comparison. I grew up in West Plains, Missouri.