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I find it fascinating to see how other areas handle their 4h programs! The closest we get to a poultry show is traveling 5 to 6 hours to the stock show in denver or state fair also in denver. I do not know how good of birds turn up to those events because the last time I attended was many...

whatever the outcome DD is determined to ride it out.... lol gotta love kids. I googled your fair and it looks to be very similar to ours. our poultry barn has the least interest and support at our local fair. It's what my kids are allowed to do because the playing field is level, you ste not...

she has lost a couple but so far the last batch is doing well!

You are used to a MUCH bigger fair and area than we are in. Thank you for your concern. There are no REAL poultry shows in our area. this is a 4-h fair where we might get 15 kids to participate??? on a good year. I have reminded my DD that there is no guarantee that this years judge will be...

I have read through our fair rules several times and one of the "breeds" that is listed in this specific class is a ranger type hybrid. personally I see no difference between our backyard mix and a meat type hybrid just because ours will be called "3 acres poultry meat bird" (our farm name) and...

it is a dual purpose meat bird class as part of her 4-h project... most of the other folks that will be bringing birds in this class(provided fair goes on) will either bring ranger type birds or hatchery heritage like Rhode island red and barred plymouth rocks

38 dual purpose backyard mix babies final count for this week. Making a total of 48 possible fair birds

count as of 7 am, 35 running around and the upside down pip looked like it piped through the yolk????? WT????? it is in a cup we will see if it makes it but there were still 6 eggs in the incubator when I left for work so???

2 am report(just kuz I am up) 29 out so far with 5 or so pips viable and one upside down pip still talking... started with 56 this go round so far very pleased!

we will have to get a final count but so far there are 2 yellow Nn one black Nn, 2 full feathered black and a sea of yellow babies!

second hatch of the project produced 8 more babies over a 3 day hatch time.... 3 had leg issues and ended up with bandaid hobblesif you look close the middle one is sporting a pair and running around. This week is the final hatch for this project so far early day 21 we have 5 out and I see...

time for an update... wow I have been slacking here! yesterday concluded the first hatch for this project.... about 2 weeks into incubation we discovered that the turning tray for the nr360 split around the "d" so it wasn't turning most of the first 2 weeks.... :th I went looking for a...

DD has been busy saving eggs to put in the incubator again... she is getting up to a dozen a day that are possibilities. After this weekends big hatch she may get to set almost all of them!

Pen #1 big boys pen big boy is the head rooster In this pen he weighted in at 5 pounds at 12 weeks as a young cockrel he was hatched fall 2018white boy is out of big boy, hatched spring 2019 late he didn't gain quite as fast as his dad but still better than most I had that go round.this white...

I know that there are folks Far more advanced than we are at making homegrown ( backyard crosses) meat birds. The idea here is to have a place to document my DD's hatching and growing experience with our backyard mix birds and how she does taking them to our local county fair.