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I have 3 teenagers and we are lucky to have homegrown beef, pork and chicken. I wouldn't have it any other way!

My family is almost disappointed when we have to eat store bought chicken. It fills the empty spot in the tummy but not as flavorful as homegrown. I am done hatching for a while, letting the bator rest after this weekends hatch. Will fire it back up 3rd of December to hatch turkeys and Nn for...

I have no illusions of making money on layers. Here all folks see is a chicken and they know they dont want expensive one or "old" ones, I am not mad about it just the way it is. I raise my birds cuz I love em, and hatching them, and watching them grow and change. I also enjoy sharing my passion...

Yup that's the general idea... But I struggle to sell them and get enough to cover the cost of raising them that long.... around here folks get the "spent" hens from the laying houses and then flood craigslist with $5 "young hens" smh makes it hard to even gey $20 for s genuine POL pullet

We try to keep it close to 6 a day. My 2 daughters, 15 and 16, help. Last weekend we killed 7 , found 3 where there was meat quality concerns so those went away, and had the remaining 4 parted bagged and resting in the fridge with the carcasses cooking for chicken noodle soup in 2.5 hours. Takes...

Take a deep breath and dont overthink it. I try to make sure I am only butchering the ones I dont want to use for breeding... if I have questions about whether a hen is laying I will separate her for a few days. I personally dont want to butcher a laying hen but I have

But the girls can give me eggs..or someone eggs

I have no problem butchering obnoxious cockrels, I have given away around 35 older girls this fall alone.

In my case I accepted a free rooster and received a jump start on the big genes.... I remember reading somewhere that you start with the best you can find hatch as many as you can and cull Heavily keeping the top 1 to 3 percent. Another place one of the oldtimmers wrote one of the most important...

Yup that's why I have a few leghorn crosses still

The hen with Big boy is one of my original Delawares from privet hatchery, they are weighty. Again need to get the scale out but you know when you pick them up that they are more than feathers! I got those girls as an oops but discovered they were the ones laying the Big pink eggs and better...

I started with a Big white rooster I was given, i never did quite figure out his breed.... for all i know he may have been a slow growing meat bird? Crossed him with my Necked necks and delawares, keeping in mind those were my best crosses and the ones I kept track of the next generation. The...

I am very excited about them! I love reading about what you are doing because it's close to what I want to do... and it's nice that you take the time to explyour crosses and how they are doing as far as mest purposes and temperament. Thank you

We just butchered our last red broiler rooster this past weekend. They were hatched March 1st, I didnt take pics and forgot we have a scale but the thing I wanted to comment on was the similarity between him and one of my home crosses. Once the feathers were off I couldnt tell them apart! I was...

That is where my red broilers came from. So far they are doing well and with no special treatment. Looks like I am getting 2 to 3 eggs a day from the 3 of them.... not big eggs but I am putting them in the bator just in case

You are Way ahead of me! My red broilers just started laying. Give me about 6 months and I might have some ideas.... or just some big Nn? Lol I love my Nn anyway so life is good!

I am crossing my Nn boy to my ted broiler girls for that very purpose! Just put my first red broiler eggs in last Friday so with any luck we will get some babies in 2.5 weeks.... I am excited.

It could handle many more than I have had in it.... I have it rigged up with 2 stand alone turners so I have had around 80 in it.... it has 4 trays and if I wanted to hand turn each tray could handle maybe 60 or more? Couple that with the brinsea ovation ex56 and the 2 nurture rite 360's that...

I currently only have 2 incubators on ok not s great pic but the only one I can find.... this is my cabinet bator circa 1934.... and my brinsea has eggs in it

I have a couple new partridge colored ones over the last day or so.... this new batch should be fun!