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I too have the biggest freezer I can find. When my mother-in-law first saw it she sarcastically asked is that the biggest freezer you could find and I answered as a matter of fact it ist. We do tend to eat a lot of meat and trying to change that some to plan meals based of vegetables...
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We eat a lot of everything it seems like. In the last 18 months we have gone through 1 and 1/2 beefs, 1/2 a pig and the last 40 broilers didn't last more than 3 months. I did give some of those to family to try though. I anticipate selling some of these roos to the hispanic and asian...
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Don't bring up dancing or my wife will have me out there all the time.
We used to do that at least three nights a week but that seems like a lifetime ago now. I don't remember what it was like to not have kids and other responsibilities to take care of. We enjoy spending our weekends at...
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That doesn't count the roughly 50 CX that have already gone to the freezer. I had some thoughts of trying to grow the CX to sell to others to help provide a small additional income but have decided that I just don't have the time to invest in that. I plan on letting my DP birds free...
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My thoughts are to start processing them once they start crowing and continue doing so until I have them all processed hopefully by 20 to 24 weeks. My initial thoughts were to start around 16 weeks and end by 24. That should give me a good idea as to the differences in carcass traits at...
I am going to rebuild my tractor for my meaties this weekend. I built one from pvc and a tarp and I am not satisified with it. It tends to blow around in heavy winds and doesn't seem to provide the birds as much protection as somehing more like the Salatin syle. That is what I going to build...
Well, I am taking time to reflect on the last 10 months today. I purchased my first 6 hens last July and today there is just over 200 chickens here. My wife goes around muttering something about a mental institution. I don't know what she is talking about. She doesn't understand chicken math I...