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They lay like crazy, but their carcasses are awful. Lol. But, they have improved so that's something. If only I could get them up to par with my reds. Good egg laying and carcass quality. But Gary and his dad and grandfather have been working on these reds for over 100 years, so I have a...

They are still in dire need, but are improving with each gen...

For what it's worth, this is very similar to the project I've been working on for several years now. My standard bred RC rir are truly dual purpose with good lay rates and excellent carcass weights, tenderness, etc. I have been using them to bring the autosexed Rhodebars up to par. It's been...

This is one of several we have built for our city dwelling relatives and friends.

As far as mean cocks... in my experience the hatchery cocks are nasty. I keep a dozen standard bred and they are sweet as honey.

For some of us, farming is both our livelihood and our retirement. Retirement is not an age, it's an ability to support yourself without someone else writing the pay check. We sold the commercial dairy and cheese processing facility, so no longer have any employees. I milk 2 cows, 6 sheep...

Cock fighting is illegal yes. But for many around here it is still very, very common. ;-)

I agree Beer Can. I have WAY too many cockerels right now with this genetic project I'm working on. Tired of the noise, I like my quiet. I need to get back down to less than 8-12... the only thing worse is guineas. Maybe that's why I love my rabbits, sheep and cattle so much. They are...

Ok... I'm gonna have to tell you chicken folks what happened last month when we were talking genetics on the dexter proboards. Apparently the proboards has built in software to change words it seems inappropriate. We were discussing genetics and I was using poultry linebreeding in an example...

An F1 back to a parent is a BC1. Back cross

Italian maremma are lgds. We have five and couldn't run this place without them, they are awesome with both sheep and poultry. BSF is black soldier fly larvae. We set bait buckets out each spring and harvest the eggs. The starter eggs each spring go into our bin. When crawl of begins, a...

They are all spoken for this year but you might check with Gary. I will be selling pullets and cockerels periodically throughout the summer and into the fall to get my winter numbers down again.

All animal meat here is for humans and maremma. That's why we raise BSF exclusively for the poultry.

My RC RIR line came directly from Gary Underwood. The Underwood line was 100 years old last year. I am bias having owned a variety of reds in the past, but have never found a line of RC Reds I like as well as the Underwood. They are the only rir line I raise now.

I'm not a fan of heated bowls because of frozen wattles. We use bird bath deicers in 5 gallon buckets with poultry nipples on the bottom. Works great.

One of the things moat commonly forgotten when discussing protein for poultry is that they are NOT herbivores. They require animal protein. Even though we rotationally free range ours 9 months if the year, so provide a consistent source of animal protein we feed BSF year round. The BSF are...

We ferment also, but not prepackaged pellets. I have two different rations, one for winter months and another for when they are out. I ferment only the grains which we grind ourselves, all other ingredients such as limestone, alfalfa meal, animal proteins, etc get added each day by weight to...

I'll add... for real young chicks my favorite identifier is a strip of different colored vet wrap. Love the stuff and keep many colors. Works even on day old chicks.

Despise zip ties, numbered or not. On young chicks they simply get too tight too quick to keep up with. The plain spirals and numbered bands can be purchased from any poultry supply co, or at poultry shows. I use numbered bands size 11 or 13 on my grown cock birds, 9 or 11 on the hens. For...

Thank you. No he is not perfect. There is no such thing. Lol. He was just a youngster in that picture taken early last fall and hatched last spring. He took Reserve BOV to one of my pullets in Dec. He's a neat boy. I rarely show, but when it's close to home it's hard to resist. I have...