Alaska hatchers..How is everyone doing? Baby pics !!!!!!

[AlaskGirl]

I am so jealous of you WolfWoman, I'm so new to this and your chicks are beautiful enough to inspire a drive JUST to see them!! What's 350 miles anyway!!?? Beautiful babies!!

 

[Wolfwoman]

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LOL!! They're such fun too! Especially when they get older. In Alaska, 350 miles is NOTHING!!! I just wish the other 5 had lived, they were interesting breeds too.

 

[sgt_dane]

These three chicks are 5 week old meaties. From the same run from Triple D hatchery. What is wrong with the little ones? We have three that are small and underfeathered, all the rest look like the big one. any thoughts??? They all eat well, VERY well. The little ones arent kept from the food at all. as you can see with how full they are.. ended up losing 9 of them and they were all under sized like these two. The guy at triple D said he had them on adult food, that at three days old they were old enough to not be on chicken starter so thats what he had been feeding them...

 

[gogoalie]

genitic anomolies aren't uncommon, but to thave three of them in the same hatch...hmmm...interesting...very intersting...

 

[Wolfwoman]

I had two runt meaties in the batch I got from Triple D, I lost one yesterday.

 

[sgt_dane]

there were 12 in the same run, 9 passed away and three are still kickin but kinda weak...

 

[Wolfwoman]

But I only bought 14, so there were 2 out of that

 

[Mrs MIA]

So far the meaties from MMH have been the best. Over the last 3 years I've ordered them from MMH, Welp, Ideal, and Purely Poultry, and the results are ranked in that order. MMH's birds all survived the trip, none had leg problems or any other issues. Welp was good, too, and I'm expecting some from them in the next week or so. Ideal was ok, but I did have a couple that developed leg problems. PP's birds never really amounted to much, and after 12-16 weeks we put them in the freezer as cornish game hens.

We feed chick starter for the first week or two, then switch to broiler grower for the remainder. Once we switch to the broiler grower, we free-feed during the day, and take the food away at night. Our last batch of MMH birds were butchered right at 8 weeks, with 3.5-4# dressed out birds as the average size. They looked a LOT bigger than that on the hoof! LOL! Can't say what's happening with those little guys... you might ask 3D where he orders from... I'd be curious to know.

We have 5 cornish from Ideal right now... 4 weeks old and they went outside last thursday.

 

[Alaska animal lover]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

So far the meaties from MMH have been the best. Over the last 3 years I've ordered them from MMH, Welp, Ideal, and Purely Poultry, and the results are ranked in that order. MMH's birds all survived the trip, none had leg problems or any other issues. Welp was good, too, and I'm expecting some from them in the next week or so. Ideal was ok, but I did have a couple that developed leg problems. PP's birds never really amounted to much, and after 12-16 weeks we put them in the freezer as cornish game hens.

We feed chick starter for the first week or two, then switch to broiler grower for the remainder. Once we switch to the broiler grower, we free-feed during the day, and take the food away at night. Our last batch of MMH birds were butchered right at 8 weeks, with 3.5-4# dressed out birds as the average size. They looked a LOT bigger than that on the hoof! LOL! Can't say what's happening with those little guys... you might ask 3D where he orders from... I'd be curious to know.

We have 5 cornish from Ideal right now... 4 weeks old and they went outside last thursday.

I believe he uses Ideal.

That's good to know about MMH, I ordered our meaties from them. Due in two weeks! They'll be staying at Stephanies house so last night we were over there getting their area ready. We're using cement mesh(wire) pannels to build a hoop house for them. I bought them at SBS in Palmer and they're 7'6"x20' long for $33.00. They do have a 6 inch square hole we will have to wrap chicken wire around, but they make a huge hoop house. It will be 20x14 when we are done.​

 

[MissDeb]

Donna,

Your white one is a BUCK!!!

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I was low on the buck scale this time around and sadly the light grey I wanted to keep is a buck as well.

I have one white buck, one steel buck and one light grey buck......The rest are all girls!

They were born April 22, so they still have a couple of weeks with mom....