I’ve had my CX in the tractor for 3 days now. They seem active- def happier. One is isolated in a crate bc he doesn’t get on his feet. He tries to stand, ends up scooting backwards on butt with legs thrust forward. I need to prop his butt to allow feeding and water. I’m culling him today. Wt is 2.5 lbsI think three days is a lot on the birds. I happened to get them in two days and this year I had zero die in transit.
After three weeks of filling chick feeders twice a day they go into pasture coops. There they are fed a crop full twice a day. I like to go back and check on them shortly after feeding and see how full, or not, the crops are; then I can up or decrease the ration for the next feeding. I am on week 10 (we go to 10 pounds live weight) and have lost one to leg splay, one to impacted crop (my fault for not mowing the daisys), and now we have one isolated that is too tiny to be in with the big boys. We feed by putting the wet mash on the fresh ground and pulling the pasture coop over top. We run four of these coops for 100 birds. We use a nipple waterer system.View attachment 3564429View attachment 3564428View attachment 3564427View attachment 3564426