2nd Round of meaties arrived this morning. Now I need to know how much heat they need. The birds at the store weren't even under a lamp. Our highs are in the 70's, temp where birds are is about 70ish. I guess I need to still run the lamp, maybe I'll put on a timer. Seems like overkill to...
Ya I gotta say the broth is lookin lovely this morning. Can't wait to have some. Already gave some to our terrier who is 13 w some arthritis. He loved it.
Cool story about other cultures and chickens. Thanks for sharing it.
Well gang, harvest morning has come and gone now. That was a busy morning.
Here are the take aways:
8 birds yielded 47.5 lbs of dressed chicken
Largest bird (birdzilla) was 7.25 dressed
Smallest (squirt) was 4.25 dressed
Fire heated scalding pot worked great
Kill cone worked good but need a...
Jeez and i was complaining about getting 8" in a MONTH! Sorry to hear about that down there, hope you get through it ok. And ya it's raining again, last two days i'm up to 1.3 more.
Quick update. We've been experiencing an unusually wet and chilly spring up here in VT (1.6 avg below norm last month, rained 20 out of 31 days). So we were a little worried last night after we got the meaties out to their new home. The temp dropped down to 44 outside overnight with real feel...
Here's some pics of the meaties in their new Condo. This structure is actually a wood shed and unto woodshed it shall return in the fall. I used about a third of it for the meaties and left it so that eventually I can house more in it if the meaty experiment goes well (and I think it will)...
Hello all. My CornX made the journey to the new outside home today. We got them on May 5 and they are growing like plump little weeds. I'll post some pics shortly of their new home and the run. It was quite a slog (literally as we received 8.47 inches of rain in May) to complete the project...