5 hours, alot of blood & guts but a freezer full.

[sonew123]

Your making me so excited!!! Im getting 15 of them this week! cant wait! congrats-anything I need to know? like they are filthy nasty stinker buggers right?

 

[Tugger1]

Don't get attched to them!!! They are sooo adorable when you get them, give them a couple of weeks though. They have the potential of being such a beautiful bird, but once they start pounding on the pounds all they doo is drink eat and poop, and I mean poop!!! They are worth the work though, think of it how much would a 12 lb chicken be in the store???


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We just processed 30 CXs over the weekend and I am glad it's over. Processing birds in 85 degree heat is miserable. And stinky. Those babies were huge! I have never done CXs before now and I can see what all the hype is about. Those things were the size of small turkeys at 9 weeks.


Yeah same with us...85 degree heat, we had a bit of a breeze but the heat was our incentive for getting them all done so fast. I barely had enough room in the freezer for the 22 we kept (we went half with our neighbour) so sticking them in our fridge first was not going to happen. It was process 12 and in the freezer.

It was alot of work the neighbour and I are all game for next year again, but hubby wants to hatch out our buff O's and then process those when we need too. I don't know about that I'm pretty attached to my RIR's a Buff's

 

[sonew123]

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I am VERY attached to the few BO I have. I "think" I would rather deal with the massive amounts of pooh in a short amount of time than wait 4-5 months to butcher BO's and RIR's
Im seriously thinking of housing the meaties on my compost piles of dirt? Thats the best place I think??? That way the pooh is right where it needs to be at all times?? I can move the "tractor" around on it everyday Anyone see any harm in this? Should I get them vaccinated for mereks??