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Other: I am going with Sil Go Link, raised them up to 3 months and had about 3 1/2 - 4 lb dressed birds. I have raised CX's, im not going to knock them but i will never raise them again after raising sil go links.

I'm pretty excited and and my fiancee really didnt mind , I will keep you up to date on them. The guy at the hatcery said they take about 14 weeks to get to butcher weight. I'm a little worried about the summer heat though.

Well my plan was to only get 25 cockrels and have them shipped at the begginning of September. So I just got off the phone with central hatchery and it turns out they have a minimum of 50 chicks and their last hatch is next week!!! Me being very impulsive went ahead and ordered 50 chickens that...

Beer can chicken in the oven! 350 tented for an hour and 400 no tent for a 1/4 -1/2 hour or until skin is nice and crisp. Always have great luck!

What temp were you roasting yours at? I know sometimes roasting chicken too high of a temp, or too long will cause toughness. When I roast mine I do a beer can chicken in the oven. I cook at 350 with an aluminum tent just so it cover the top of the breast for an hour. Then I bump up the heat to...

The reason you feed 12 on 12 off, is because CX's (if thats what you are raisings) are bred to grow FAST! If you constantly feed them they will constantly eat . Therefore their bodies will grow faster than their bones and organs and you get heart failure and their legs will usaully give out. I...

I used a cabela's meat scale and a 5 gallon bucket which weighed 2 pounds. I gently put the chicken in the bucket at 7 weeks old, weighed around 8- 8.5 lbs. Chickens dressed weight came out at 4 and 4.5 lbs Kristen

If you're rainsing CX's. I raised my first bactch of 50 this spring, they are already in the freezer. At 3 weeks I never let the temp get under 70 degrees. I was worried about them getting cold and smothering eachother. I am a beginner so I took all precautions because I wanted to keep my...

Oh thank you for keeping us all up to date!!!!

Can you keep me posted on your adventure? I just got finished with my CX's and I was looking into buying some red broilers next spring to try something different (don't get me wrong, I love CX's, doing another batch this fall) I'm curious to see if they dress out differently from CX's. ps. the...

Thank you all!!!!! They went from the chopping block, into the scalder, plucked, put into ice water, hung up to dry and then singed, back into ice water to rub of the singed hairlike feathers, feet cut off, gutted, rinsed out really good and then into the freezer bag. Wow that sounds lilke a...

Today we did the final group of chickens, all 19 (did 25 last week) I got my folks to come up to the place and help out. All dressed out at about 4 lbs, 7weeks old.

Well I finally got to use my scalder. We( Fiancee, Dad, and I) butcherd 25 chickens today and the scalder worked just as planned. It took about 45 minutes to heat up and all went smoothly! Just got 18 left to do next week. Oh! and dad got 10 chickens.

We haven't used it on chickens yet, but we did a test run and it holds its heat well and no leaks. My dad picked up a used natural gas heater and put a propane orphase on, thats all I really know (my dad is the brains behind this unit). I got the idea from this thread (...

I think I owe my dad a few chickens

I'm not sure what size of building im going to put in yet. I haven't decided if i'm going to do 50 chickens or 150 next year. A lot of neighboors and friends are wanting to buy chickens from me right now but I just don't have enough for that between me and my fiance, we go through a lot of...

Our neighboor said they used it only as a brooder house and then they moved their chickens to a large coop. I don't think its ever housed hens. After we butcher these chickens we are going to insulate it, put in nesting boxes and make it into a hen house(we are getting a variety of 10 pullets in...

The fencing is pretty easy to move, definatly managable by yourself but a lot faster with 2 people. This is my first year raising chickens and I started with CX's and I have learned if their is feed around they aren't going anywhere. It will wave back and forth in the wind since you can't make...

Thanks Kelsey! I gave my neighbor 100 bucks for it. It was just going to rot away in the pasture anyway. Here is a picture of it before we started to work on it.

I had one that was doing that last week, he was 4 weeks and one of the smaller ones. He would sit funny and his legs would stick out to the side a little. I finally culled him because he wasn't able to get up anymore and I felt really bad for him. He did make a tasty dinner