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okay.....Shellz.....if your birds will be 24 weeks old that is what I was shooting for. Are they all cockerels or is there some pullets? What weight do you think they are now.....compared to your 17 week old cockerel? I sure hope your taste/texture test pans out with the older bird and...

good grief!!!!!!!! a 400 egg bator and then 3-4 sportsmen bators....now that is some serious hatching. It makes me think my two hovabators are spit in the wind.......lol. I seem to see the sportsmen for sale around 4-5 hundred dollars which is half the regular price. that is tempting...

lol.....i have had the sportsman on my mind.......looked for some.....found them.....changed my mind......looked again.....then heard they are pricey to run......then changed my mind.....and guess what.....now I am thinking again......lol. My hovabator only holds 40 at best and I really...

yep i am from farming background also.....and it is in the blood to count costs.....lol. Glad to hear you are getting some Malines from Shellyz this spring. I might think about getting a sportsman bator then....I have tossed the idea around but keep talking myself out of it. However...

I purchased the 3 breeding pullets and the roo for 15.00 each and then new chicks I just hatched i was going to keep 3 pullets to POL. These should supply eggs to hatch for the next 2-3 years hopefully. I used my 1 Hovabator to hatch out the 19 new chicks and I really don't know how much...

okay.....so the taste/texture test went very well. We kept all the Maline and Cornish X meat on 2 different plates and then took a piece of thigh....breast and drumstick to test on both birds. Maline was just a hair bit more chews for all dark meat. It was not tough and sinew textured and...

well there was a change of plans.....today is the day for taste/texture testing. I have added pics of a cornish X and a Malines side by side to see the differences. The Malines was 18 weeks old and 5 lb. The Cornish X was a bit more than 13 weeks old and almost 6 lb. The other pic is them...

the final count is 19 fuzzy butts.....out of 24 so that is a good ratio. One pipped at the bottom of the shell and died before I found it otherwise there would have been 20. My son in law and I would like to keep up to 3 pullets each to enlarge our breeding flock for spring. I guess the...

there are 14 maline chicks that have hatched with 5 more pipping and zipping out of 24 eggs. The ones I moved to the barn are all relaxing under a heat lamp. Plus they are bellied up to the food bar.....lol. Let the eating begin!

yep I am interested also to see if they grow faster or slower on purchased food. Also with not as much exercise and bugs. They will still be in a big pen but not like outside. The taste/texture test is scheduled for next weekend for the 2 I posted a picture of. I will let everyone know...

I have been talking to Shelley behind the scenes as I had bought 3 Malines pullets for breeding stock and 3 cull cockerels for meat only from Bart. My son in law bought 5 mature hens and 1 rooster. I just had 2 of the cull cockerels processed today and thought I would post a picture of them...