BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[lcertuche]

I make turkey sausage every yr, with pig casings. You can buy them online, our local Price Chopper grocery stores carry them also. Turkey is cheap in the fall/winter, shop around, deals, .28-49cents a lb plus we get one free usually from work. I de-bone all, grind, add chopped onions and peppers, Italian sausage seasoning, and stuff! Awesome stuff!
Have thought about grinding older chickens and doing the same instead of pressure cooking or slow cooking, or even grind for tacos and fajitas.

What a super idea! I have ground chicken to make chicken burgers but never sausage.

 

[ejcrist]

I make turkey sausage every yr, with pig casings. You can buy them online, our local Price Chopper grocery stores carry them also. Turkey is cheap in the fall/winter, shop around, deals, .28-49cents a lb plus we get one free usually from work. I de-bone all, grind, add chopped onions and peppers, Italian sausage seasoning, and stuff! Awesome stuff!
Have thought about grinding older chickens and doing the same instead of pressure cooking or slow cooking, or even grind for tacos and fajitas.

Gosh, you're making me hungry. I never thought about turkey sausage.

 

[lpatelski]

UPDATE DAY 22...
WEIGHT 589g - 567g = 22g ... 22g+78g=100g/2 days = 50g average daily gain.
Just above the 45.17g average needed to beat Auggie's 26 day weight of 760g.
By the way... note the red comb and waddles. LO169 is most definitely a cockerel. Hurricane name: Hugo


DAY 21...

Will Chick#LO169 meet the "Auggie" weight gain challenge of 45.17g per day?

Day 21 weight: 567 - 489 day 20 weight = 78g gain. Looks like we have a challenger

Quote:
Originally Posted by lpatelski

Fall hatch Batch#1 Big Chick update: 20 days and 489g
F2 generation of 50%DC x 50%CX "Bob" over 50%DC x 50%CX "Pebbles"
Looks like the 25% chance for CX phenotype won out on this chick.

This chick has 6 days to gain 271g just 45.17g per day no problem right?

Auggie chick #123 6/16/16 was 26 days and 760g so fat he barely fit on the scale.

 

[Molpet]

Well I have joined the ranks of toad raisers @duluthralphie .. looking at broken eggs shells...so far at least 3 cx have hatched under a BR hen. She went broody a month ago and 22 days ago I gave her 7 cx eggs, 3 br, 1 isa and 1 BJG... I thought some of the cx eggs might be too old since she lays about every 3-4 days. I didn't want a lonely chick in winter.. The cx started laying mid september at about 25 wks .. also eggs shells show 2 BR and 1 ISA hatched.. hopefully some more will hatch. I will get pics when she is ready to show them to the world. I seen a yellow fuzz ball under her.yesterday.
1 BR chick had gotten out of the 4x4 house and went 20' in the hoop coop (past the bellybutton jakes and the evil hens) screaming for help this morning

it was 43f four feet above him. She was staying put and letting him commit suicide.Good Girl...she took him back...I can tell it has to be a jerk roo already.

mixed roo baby daddy.. unless it's the jerk BR cockerel I haven't sent to freezer camp yet LOL

 

[stryker]

Well I have joined the ranks of toad raisers @duluthralphie .. looking at broken eggs shells...so far at least 3 cx have hatched under a BR hen. She went broody a month ago and 22 days ago I gave her 7 cx eggs, 3 br, 1 isa and 1 BJG... I thought some of the cx eggs might be too old since she lays about every 3-4 days. I didn't want a lonely chick in winter.. The cx started laying mid september at about 25 wks .. also eggs shells show 2 BR and 1 ISA hatched.. hopefully some more will hatch. I will get pics when she is ready to show them to the world. I seen a yellow fuzz ball under her.yesterday.
1 BR chick had gotten out of the 4x4 house and went 20' in the hoop coop (past the bellybutton jakes and the evil hens) screaming for help this morning

it was 43f four feet above him. She was staying put and letting him commit suicide.Good Girl...she took him back...I can tell it has to be a jerk roo already.

mixed roo baby daddy.. unless it's the jerk BR cockerel I haven't sent to freezer camp yet LOL

That is one nice looking rooster! Today I noticed a jerk rooster born in the spring fighting with three hens within 30 minutes.. I got rid of two roosters his size and he is the only dominate one. He lost his three strikes in less than an hour...

 

[Molpet]

That is one nice looking rooster! Today I noticed a jerk rooster born in the spring fighting with three hens within 30 minutes.. I got rid of two roosters his size and he is the only dominate one. He lost his three strikes in less than an hour...

glad I am not alone w/ them fighting hens. Last week my jerk BR, from spring too, was fighting w/a broodie w/ chicks. another hen came in and managed to run him off after a fight..... next nice day that I have time he is gone to freezer camp.

 

[stryker]

I just put 7 roosters in freezer camp. I had enough with their stupid stuff.I only have one keeper roo(14 weeks old) and two roo chicks that are about 8 weeks old left. This roo better know his place or he will go in freezer camp as well. I am just glad to have time for the roos to mature before hatching season.

 

[dfr1973]

before hatching season.

Differences in climate region - I am starting hatching a little late this year due to a late hurricane and unseasonably warm September and October. Egg production is slow already, and won't really pick up until January, but I want to get a couple batches of chicks on the ground before then. By June at the latest it will be too hot to run the incubator - hopefully I'll have some broodies who are serious this next year.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Differences in climate region - I am starting hatching a little late this year due to a late hurricane and unseasonably warm September and October. Egg production is slow already, and won't really pick up until January, but I want to get a couple batches of chicks on the ground before then. By June at the latest it will be too hot to run the incubator - hopefully I'll have some broodies who are serious this next year.

That's interesting, I would have thought that your egg production would be good right now - are you finding that it's the shorter daylight hours rather than temperature that affects Wyandotte egg laying in Florida? How long is your day right now? My end of April hatched pullets are laying up a storm now, and the daylength here in southern Ontario right now is around 10 hours and 20 minutes.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

How much does being a subordinate rooster in a pen of other roosters affect growth and maturity? I have a Buckeye rooster in with 3 others, Buckeye/Cornish crosses, and he's at the bottom of the pecking order. They get along but I'm surprised at how immature the Buckeye rooster is. He's a nice boy but nowhere near the weight he should be. Could his immaturity be due to the other roosters?