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I'm finally getting back into chicks after nearly 2 years without any. I know this is going to sound really silly, but I like my flocks to "color coordinate." For instance, if I go with Black Australorps I'd like to have something that is white with black markings, or just white, etc. I like...

It is absolutely true that the meat from grass-fed animals is higher in omega-3 fatty acids (these are healthy omegas that increase your good cholesterol). Certainly they would have a lower fat content as well because they wouldn't be loading up on fatty feeds. This isn't only true of pigs and...

I have a buff silkie, appx 4 months old, who has been acting SUPER strange the last couple of days. She has her head all the way back, touching her back, staring up into space and sort of waving her head around. (I've been calling her Stevie Wonder because it is the movement he has always made...

We just did ours today. It was our first time. We skinned all 21 of them. I just roasted a skinless one covered in the oven and it was delicious! I seasoned it up with some herbs, stuffed it, drizzled it with a little olive oil on both sides, put a little water in the pot, put foil on, and...

We just ate one of our fresh cornish cross for dinner. Man it was good!! I stuffed it and roasted it and served it with some fresh green beans and homemade rolls - YUM!! Yeah, I think I'm gonna be sorry when I eat the rangers as far as volume, but it will be nice to compare the taste of the...

This morning, in just under 3 hours, we butchered, skinned, rinsed and cut up 21 meat birds. We did the rangers and the cornish. I have to say, for the time invested, I am much more pleased with the cornish overall. The rangers were several weeks older and still nowhere near the size of the...

Is it 12 or 24? I think the time is getting near for us, and I need to make a plan.

I'm raising Cx and some free-ranging meat birds. I don't find the Cx to be bad to raise and they certainly grow quickly. Of course, there is certainly no breeding them. However, even my barred silver free-ranging meat birds (that are at least 2-3 weeks older) are no comparison in size. My Cx...

All I can say is I have a 10x20 stall that I have raised my pullets and meat chicks in - the meat chicks have been out for a while, and that back area is just as stinky from those pullets as the area where my cornish are. I'm sure that the fresh air makes the cornish poop bearable. I don't find...

I don't know but I was just about to post whether anyone has ever just, pardon the pun, chickened out on the butchering. I feel like, at this stage of my life, if I am going to continue eating meat, I should take responsibility for what that entails. And aside from that, I won't purchase meat...

I have both cornish and a ranger type meat bird. I actually am finding that I prefer the cornish. I think they get a bad rap. Mine aren't any less intelligent than any of my other chickens. Yeah, they move a bit slower because they are getting big, but they eat grass fairly well, still try to...

Well, I will have concrete in my milk room for sure, but I am leaning towards none anywhere else. I want my animals to be able to come up into the barn aisle during bad weather and I don't like the idea of the urine just soaking into the concrete. On the one hand, bleaching and cleaning would...

We aren't planning to have horses in this barn (dd's retired barrel horse lives on my sister's 160 acres), and certainly not cattle. This is only for goats and chickens. I don't even know if my bunny cages will be right there or not. The concrete aisle issue I'm having is more about whether or...

My hubby is about to break ground on my new barn. It's not huge, but will have a milk room (goat) and 2 stalls (goat) on one side, and a tack room or brooding room on the other side plus a large chicken coop (chickens free-range during the day). My bunny cages will be either mounted under the...

Well maybe they are the right birds! I just didn't remember them looking like that before (didn't recall that much white on the face at this age, or the white spot toward the back of the feathers on the back), but I feel better now. Thanks to all of you for posting!

I need to see what an appx 6 week old BA chick looks like (maybe 7). I do NOT recall my ba's looking like this last year. These are feathered pretty good and there is no greenish tint to the feathers and they are a more dull black. They still have white on their faces and a white tip under some...

Obsessed, do you really find it easier to do rabbits? I mean, I'm sure the killing/cleaning is easier, but is it easier overall, cuz the closer I get to killing my chickens, the more nervous I am, and I think the bunnies will be worse.

what do you feed? My layers free-range from dawn til dusk When they go in, they have scratch grains and oyster shell (and, of course, fresh water in and out the coop). Other than that I don't feed them anything. They get scraps when we have them, and they do pick at the younger birds' starter...

Thanks. I'll probably have about that many once my meat birds are finished and I give away the ones I've raised for other people. I may have a few extras but they'll be silkies so they won't take up much room.

We are about to break ground on our new barn. I just want to know how many hens an 8x16 coop is suitable for if they are only in at night. Hubby is going to make a separate brooding room that is completely insulated for when I raise babies, and I'll have to have something for the in-betweens...