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Thanks. it is taking a little adjusting for everyday life, but my greenhouses were run by solar so not as much as a jump in the dark. More of draw to many volts no matter the wattage and the system goes Nope not doing it LOL.

Move is over, I now have 55 acres to play on and am in the process of building coops, runs and barns. AND, it is totally off grid with a 8 kilowatt solar system and my own well. I plan to redo the weekly weigh ins with the new batch come March and I will include cornish cross to compare to at...

Due to selling my house in 5 days of being listed and trying to find a new place, then packing up the house, we move in 2 weeks to the new farm, I've been behind in tracking the Delawares. I did weigh them this morning, and boy was that fun [sarcasm intended]. they had trouble fitting into the...

So 4 weeks and a couple of days old. avg weight 1.6 pounds. They've gone through 50 pounds of feed more or less with a conversion of 2.98 pounds of feed / pound of flesh. And they are starting to get some wide breasts on them and for those that like legs, they are impressive too.

Well, I tried to get a weight today as I was swamped yesterday. But the freakin sugar hyped up so and so's broke the scale. yep they broke it. they cheeped "Shiney" and tried to play king of the mountain and "Ohhh, it blinks', and pecked the controls until it won't weigh anything. Sigh...

Your Welcome. Starting to maybe like these Delaware Enhanced, the crazy chicks they are. I had the brooder door open as I was placing the shavings back in that they kicked out and one of them flew up onto my shoulder. Whacked me upside the head as it turned around and chirped. I tried to grab...

Average weight is 8 ounces with the largest just shy of 10 ounces. Feed consumed has lessened as I have taken measures so they don't waste as much. Total feed so far 13.2 ounces. Cornish X at 3 weeks averaged 24 ounces after consuming 42.33 ounces of feed. The Cornish X by 3 weeks were on...

A lavender Orpington in the foreground. Hatched the same day

2 weeks as of tomorrow. The Deleware weigh in at 5.4 ounces on avg with feed consumed of 8.8 ounces each. This puts them a good third behind feed consumption as the CX for about half the weight at 2 weeks. I'll have to snag a picture later this afternoon to post. what I've done, with only 10...

I need to grab a new battery for the scale, I had one of the Delaware chicks with poopy but I needed to clean today, they are growing like weeds and their crops are bulging from the way they are stuffing themselves. It almost makes me wonder if they sent the wrong breed, except they look and act...

They are here. All arrived alive and hungry and thirsty. I am going to give them to Monday, which will put them at 7 days from hatch to start weights and feed tracking as right now, all my brooders are full of injured or several week olds and It is going to take me a few days to get everyone...

I have a tracking number. So they should be here on Wednesday. Hopefully safe and sound

Well, Murray McMurray called me. seems my shipment is being pushed back to June 1st. Their large incubator failed and they lost over 100,00 eggs ready to hatch next week. So I'm not the only one having their shipment re-arranged. My issue is, I expect a lot of deaths in this shipment due to...

I am going to revive this thread to be able to keep all my info in one place. Plus, the thread title is still appropriate :) I ordered back in November when it was first mentioned about McMurray's new line of Delaware Broiler's. I ordered 10 as a why not try them, if I don't like them I can...

Okay, the 8 week final breakdown and comments below. Okay the mass breakdown. 400 pounds of feed fed at a cost of 360$ 19 birds lived to harvest day 129.98 pounds of meat placed in freezer 2.77$ per pound Avg weight is 6.7 pounds. Largest is 8 pounds Smallest was 4.5 pounds (This one was in...

Yes they were. Now that they are all done and in the freezer my next post will be the final breakdown.

No update today. Why you might ask when Wolfie has been updating weekly like clockwork. Because I start harvest in the morning. It seems at my elevation the sweet spot on Welp Hatcheries Cornish Broilers is 7 weeks. Today is 8 weeks and I am down to 19, from the original 25. the last 3 deaths...

Another Tuesday. And week 7. Well I lost two more of teh broilers. Hard to tell what from as they were flattened. It looks like piling for some odd reason. Both of which were the last of the smaller birds and did not show any signs of distress during the day. Who knows. But if 1 more broiler is...

Everything looked completely normal. the only thing i could say I found different is the heart was on the smaller side than what I expected

I ended up harvesting one of the smaller if not smallest of the meat birds this morning. When I went up to teh greenhouse to feed, I noticed one of the birds not looking to good. it was not interested in rushing the feeders as I puit feed in and was just laying with its head down. So I picked...